Publication: Hubble Space Telescope Observations of the Post-Core-Collapse Globular Cluster NGC 6752: A Search for Cataclysmic Variables
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1996
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Bailyn, Charles D., Eric P. Rubenstein, Shawn D. Slavin, Haldan Cohn, Phyllis Lugger, Adrienne M. Cool, and Jonathan E. Grindlay. 1996. “[ITAL]Hubble Space Telescope[/ITAL] Observations of the Post–Core-Collapse Globular Cluster NGC 6752: A Search for Cataclysmic Variables.” The Astrophysical Journal 473 (1): L31–34. https://doi.org/10.1086/310382.
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We report the results of HST WFPC2 observations of the core of NGC 6752. We identify two candidate cataclysmic variables (CVs) from their strong narrowband H alpha emission, periodic variability, and, in one case, a UV excess. We interpret the variability of these stars as being double-peaked, ellipsoidal light curves, in which case the orbital periods are 5.1 and 3.7 hr. The CV candidates fall at the edge of the error circle of one of the known X-ray sources in the cluster.
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