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Keywords

stars: horizontal-branch
subdwarfs
white dwarfs

How to Cite

1969 to 2010: Multicolor Photometric Observations of Population II Field Horizontal-Branch Stars. (2011). Revista Mexicana De Astrofísica Y Astronomía Serie De Conferencias, 39(1), 75-76. https://astronomia.unam.mx/journals/rmxac/article/view/2011rmxac..39...75p
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Abstract

From 1969 to 2010 I have been involved in a photometric study of Population II Field Horizontal-Branch Stars and published several papers on this topic in BOTT from 1967 thru 1972. I started by making Strömgren four-color observations at Kitt Peak National Observatory and then at Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory. I had taken spectral plates of all my selected areas on which I marked all the A-type stars. These stars were then observed photometrically. New FHB stars could be identified by their large c indices, caused by their greater (u-b) colors. Later four new filters were added (U, V, B, S). With Richard Boyle of the Vatican Observatory we observed on Mt. Graham (Arizona) on the Vatican Advanced Technology Telescope. We are making follow-up observations of the new FHB stars found.