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Color Magnitude Diagrams (CMDs) of individual stars in 8 Globular Clusters in M31 down to about 1 mag fainter (V$sim 26.5$) than the Horizontal Branch have been obtained with the Hubble Space Telescope. In particular, we observed G280 and G351 with the FOC (f/96+F430W, f/96+F480LP) while the WFPC2 (F555W,F814W) frames for G1,G58,G105,G108,G219+Bo468 were retrieved from the HST archive. The cluster metallicities -fe- range from -1.8 to -0.4. Coupled with sufficiently accurate (to $simpm0.1$ mag) measures of the mean brightness of the HB --vhb--, appropriate estimates of reddening for each cluster, and the adoption of a distance modulus to M31 of dmo = 24.43, this has allowed us to yield a direct calibration for the mean absolute magnitude of the HB at the instability strip --mv-- with varying fe: M_V^{HB} = (0.13 pm 0.07)fe + (0.95 pm 0.09), where the associated errors result from the adopted global errors in the measure and best fitting procedures. The slope of the derived relation is fully consistent with that predicted by the standard and canonical models ($sim0.15$) and obtained by various ground-based observations, while it is only marginally compatible with higher values ($sim0.30$), also obtained in the past. The zero-point, which is crucial to absolute age determinations, depends on the adopted distance to M31 and is moreover affected by an additional error due to the residual uncertainties in the hst photometric zero-points ($sim0.05$ mag, at least). If confirmed, such a calibration of the mv vs fe relationship would imply old absolute ages ($> 16$Gyr) for the oldest Galactic globulars and fairly small age spread among those having a constant magnitude difference between the Main-Sequence Turnoff and the HB.
We present deep (V ~ 28.0) BV photometry obtained with the wide field channel of the Advanced Camera for Surveys on board HST for four M31 globular clusters that were identified as candidate intermediate-age (age ~ 1-9 Gyr) by various authors, based
We report new HST/WFPC2 photometry for 10 globular clusters (GC) in M31 observed in F5555W(V) and F814W(I). Additionally we have reanalyzed HST archival data of comparable quality for 2 more GCs. Extraordinary care is taken to account for the effects
We present GALEX data for 44 Galactic globular clusters obtained during 3 GALEX observing cycles between 2004 and 2008. This is the largest homogeneous data set on the UV photometric properties of Galactic globular clusters ever collected. The sample
With the aim of increasing the sample of M31 clusters for which a colour magnitude diagram is available, we searched the HST archive for ACS images containing objects included in the Revised Bologna Catalogue of M31 globular clusters. Sixty-three suc
We have constructed synthetic color-magnitude diagrams (CMDs) for omega Cen and other massive globular clusters with apparently peculiar CMD morphology. Our population models, which adopt the most up-to-date input physics and parameters, show that th