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Hubble Space Telescope Observations of the Main Sequence of M4

  • Authors: H. B. Richer, G. G. Fahlman, J. Brewer, S. Davis, J. Kalirai, P. B. Stetson, B. M. S. Hansen, R. M. Rich, R. A. Ibata, B. K. Gibson, and M. Shara

Richer et al. 2004 The Astronomical Journal 127 2771.

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Caption: Fig. 7.

Histograms of the deviation of M4 stars (in magnitudes) from the main‐sequence fiducial. Small excesses are clearly seen toward negative residuals at about 0.75 mag in the inner two annuli, suggesting a photometric main‐sequence binary frequency of a few percent.

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