A needle in a Haystack:

Finding Exotic Binaries in

Star Clusters

Manuel Pichardo Marcano

Star Clusters

Globular Cluster

Open Cluster

  • 100 000 to 1 000 000 stars
  • Old stars (age of our Galaxy)
  • 100 to 1 000 stars
  • Young Stars

Globular Cluster

Globular Cluster

Globular Cluster

NGC 6397

Omega Cen

Imágenes: NASA/ ESA/ STScI

M70

47 tuc

NGC 6752

M22

M92

Stellar Remnants

Old Star Clusters

White Dwarf

White Dwarfs

Mass ~ 1 M☉

Radius ~ 1 R🜨

 

Radius ~ 1 R🜨

Mass ~ 1 M☉

Radius ~ 1 R🜨

 

Mass ~ 1 M☉

Radius ~ 10 Km

White Dwarf

Neutron Star

Compact Objects

Stellar Remnants

Old Star Clusters

Life Cycles of Stars

Life Cycles of Stars

Life Cycles of Stars

Interactions

Compact Binaries

R. Hynes

Compact Object and "Normal" star

Compact Binaries

R. Hynes

X-ray

Compact Object

Space Telescopes

Space Telescopes

Hubble Space Telescope

Chandra

Hubble Space Telescope

Hubble Space Telescope

Finding Compact Binaries in GCs

HST Optical (3' x 2')

NASA, T. Brown and S. Casertano (STScI)

HST NUV (2.7' x 2.7')

Dieball et. al (2016)

Chandra (3.65 ' x 3.65')

NASA/CXC

Look in the X-ray

Finding Compact Binaries in GCs

Color-Magnitude Diagram

Lugger et. al  (2017)

Hα Excess

Cataclysmic Variables

deficiency

Brighter

   Bluer <--->  Redder

Mark A. Garlick

White Dwarf Sequence

Main Sequence

White Dwarf

Solar-like Star

X-ray Binaries

Credits: NASA/Rivera Sandoval

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Neutron Star

Neutron Star

White Dwarf

White Dwarf

Neutron Star Binaries

Credit: Roen Kelly/Discover 

Main et al 2018 (Nature)

Redback 'spider' Pulsar

Redback  Pulsar

A new candidate Redback Pulsar

HUGS catalogue. (Piotto et al. 2015, Nardiello et al. 2018)

Pichardo Marcano et. al (2021a)

X-ray

HST F336W

Radio

Zhao et  al.(2020)

X-ray Binaries

Credits: NASA/Rivera Sandoval

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Neutron Star

Neutron Star

White Dwarf

White Dwarf

Finding Black Holes

Finding Black Holes

Finding Black Holes

Finding Black Holes

Globular Cluster

NGC 6397

Omega Cen

Imágenes: NASA/ ESA/ STScI

M70

47 tuc

NGC 6752

M22

M92

Exotic Binaries Factories

Globular Cluster

NGC 6397

Omega Cen

Imágenes: NASA/ ESA/ STScI

M70

47 tuc

NGC 6752

M22

M92

Exotic Binaries Factories

¡Gracias!

Thank you!

 !

Extra

A new candidate Redback Pulsar

Variable

Periodic

Lomb-Scargle periodogram

Pichardo Marcano et. al (2021a)