The GeMS/GSAOI Galactic Globular Cluster Survey (G4CS). II. Characterization of 47 Tuc with Bayesian Statistics

We present a photometric analysis of globular cluster 47 Tuc (NGC 104) using near-IR imaging data from the GeMS/GSAOI Galactic Globular Cluster Survey (G4CS), which is in operation at Gemini-South telescope. Our survey is designed to obtain AO-assisted deep imaging with near diffraction-limited spatial resolution of the central fields of Milky Way globular clusters. The G4CS near-IR photometry was combined with an optical photometry catalog that was obtained from Hubble Space Telescope survey data to produce a high-quality color–magnitude diagram that reaches down to K s ≈ 21 Vega mag. We used the software suite BASE-9, which uses an adaptive Metropolis sampling algorithm to perform a Markov chain Monte Carlo Bayesian analysis, and obtained probability distributions and precise estimates for the age, distance, and extinction cluster parameters. Our best estimate for the age of 47 Tuc is 12.42−0.05+0.05 ± 0.08 Gyr and our true distance modulus estimate is (m−M)0 = 13.250 −0.003+0.003 ± 0.028 mag, which are in tight agreement with previous studies using Gaia DR2 parallax and detached eclipsing binaries.

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