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arxiv: 1809.07746 · v2 · pith:IHKP4LLKnew · submitted 2018-09-20 · 🌌 astro-ph.SR · astro-ph.GA

Outliers: multicolour photometry guiding the search for evolved binary systems in the globular cluster 47 Tucanae

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We use Hubble Space Telescope multicolour photometry of the globular cluster 47 Tucanae to uncover a population of 24 objects with no previous classification that are outliers from the single-star model tracks in the colour-magnitude diagram and yet are likely cluster members. By comparing those sources with evolutionary models and X-ray source catalogues, we were able to show that the majority of those sources are likely binary systems that do not have any X-ray source detected nearby, most possibly formed by a white dwarf and a main-sequence star and a small number of possible double-degenerate systems.

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