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    Lagioia, E P; Milone, A P; Stetson, P B; Bono, G; MORONI, P G PRADA; DALL'ORA, M; Aparicio, A; Buonanno, R; CALAMIDA, A; Ferraro, I; GILMOZZI, R; IANNICOLA, G; Matsunaga, N; Monelli, M; Walker, A

    The Astrophysical journal, 02/2014, Letnik: 782, Številka: 1
    Journal Article

    We present deep and precise multi-band photometry of the Galactic bulge globular cluster NGC 6528. The current data set includes optical and near-infrared images collected with ACS/WFC, WFC3/UVIS, and WFC3/IR on board the Hubble Space Telescope. The images cover a time interval of almost 10 yr, and we have been able to carry out a proper-motion separation between cluster and field stars. We performed a detailed comparison in the m sub(F814W), m sub(F606W) - m sub(F814W) color-magnitude diagram with two empirical calibrators observed in the same bands. We found that NGC 6528 is coeval with and more metal-rich than 47 Tuc. Moreover, it appears older and more metal-poor than the super-metal-rich open cluster NGC 6791. The current evidence is supported by several diagnostics (red horizontal branch, red giant branch bump, shape of the sub-giant branch, slope of the main sequence) that are minimally affected by uncertainties in reddening and distance. We fit the optical observations with theoretical isochrones based on a scaled-solar chemical mixture and found an age of 11 + or - 1 Gyr and an iron abundance slightly above solar (Fe/H = +0.20). The iron abundance and the old cluster age further support the recent spectroscopic findings suggesting a rapid chemical enrichment of the Galactic bulge.