Probing the RGB-phase transition: Near–IR photometry of six intermediate age LMC clusters
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This is the first of a series of papers devoted to a global study of the photometric properties of the red stellar sequences in a complete sample of the Large Magellanic Cloud clusters, by means of near infrared array photometry. Deep J,H,Ks photometry and accurate Color Magnitude Diagrams down to K ≈ 18.5, Based on observations collected at the European Southern Observatory, La Silla, Chile, using SOFI at the 3.5m NTT, within the observing programs 64.N-0038 and 68.D-0287.
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