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Caption: Figure 3.
Seismic masses of RGB and EAGB stellar populations in NGC 5897. Top panel: EAGB and RGB stars with (colored points) and without (gray points) a successful ﹩{\nu }_{{\rm{\max }}}﹩ detection. EAGB10 (square) has an unusual CMD position and is possibly a binary star. Middle panel: luminosity as function of the individual mass results. Vertical shaded regions in the middle panel indicate the calculated error bars around the KDE peaks from the bottom panel. EAGB15 (diamond) is an overmassive star, presumably a product of binary mass transfer or a stellar merger. Significant mass outliers EAGB11 and RGB27 are also indicated. We marked the lower luminosity mass result of EAGB10 too; see the text for details. Bottom panel: probability distributions of masses of RGB and EAGB stars, using stars with filled markers in the above plots. Vertical dashed lines correspond to the KDE peaks.
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