The Luminosity Function of Omega Centauri

Deep HST-WFPC2 observations of the stellar population in the globular cluster Omega Cen (NGC 5139) have been used to measure the luminosity function of main sequence stars at the low-mass end. Two fields have been investigated, located respectively ~4.6' and ~7' away from the cluster cente...

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description Deep HST-WFPC2 observations of the stellar population in the globular cluster Omega Cen (NGC 5139) have been used to measure the luminosity function of main sequence stars at the low-mass end. Two fields have been investigated, located respectively ~4.6' and ~7' away from the cluster center, or near the half-light radius of this cluster (~4.8'). The color-magnitude diagrams derived from these data show the cluster main sequence extending to the detection limit at I ~ 24. Information on both color and magnitude is used to build the luminosity functions of main sequence stars in these fields and the two independent determinations are found to agree very well with each other within the observational uncertainty. Both functions show a peak in the stellar distribution around M_I ~ 9 followed by a drop at fainter magnitudes well before photometric incompleteness becomes significant, as is typical of other globular clusters observed with the HST. This result is at variance with previous claims that the luminosity function of Omega Cen stays flat at low masses, but is in excellent agreement with recent near-IR NICMOS observations of the same cluster.
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