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arxiv: astro-ph/0105350 · v1 · pith:GV26AONUnew · submitted 2001-05-21 · 🌌 astro-ph

Second Parameter Effects in and between M3 and Palomar 3

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We study the globular clusters M3 and Palomar 3 as a "second parameter (2ndP) pair," showing that: i) M3 has a surprisingly strong *internal* 2ndP; ii) The dispersion in mass on the Pal 3 horizontal branch (HB) is intrinsically very small, leading to the most apparent differences in HB morphology between M3 and Pal 3; iii) Ignoring the difference in HB mass dispersion between M3 and Pal 3, their relative HB types can be accounted for by a fairly small difference in age, of order 0.5-1 Gyr.

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