Processed Hubble Space Telescope image of the globular cluster
Observation data
Class
XII[1]
Constellation
Scorpius
Right ascension
17h 59m 03.68s[2]
Declination
−44° 15′ 57.4″[2]
Distance
36.9 kly (11.3 kpc)[3]
Apparent dimensions (V)
5.6'
Physical characteristics
Mass
8.2×104[4]M☉
Metallicity
= –0.70[5] dex
Estimated age
12.42 Gyr[5]
See also: Globular cluster, List of globular clusters
NGC 6496 is a globular cluster which is in the direction of the Milky Way's galactic bulge based on observations collected with the WFPC2 on board the Hubble Space Telescope. NGC 6496 was originally believed[who?] to be a member of the disc system of the Galactic Center, but scientists questioned this classification. It was instead suggested[who?] that NGC 6496, together with two other clusters, NGC 6624 and NGC 6637, could be halo clusters with strongly inclined orbits. NGC 6496 lies in the Southern sky at RA=17:59:03.68 and Dec=-44:15:57.4.[6]
The first CMD presented of NGC 6496 had photometry reaching 2 mag below the horizontal branch, disclosing for the first time the usual red arm of the metal-rich clusters. The extinction towards NGC 6496 is uncertain, with estimates ranging between and .[7]
The cluster has a relatively metal-rich composition of [Fe/H] = –0.46 dex and is of an open, uncrowded nature. Few attempts were made to find variable stars in NGC 6496. In one of the studies, thirteen variable stars were detected by Dr. Moe Abbas and Dr. Andrew Layden from Bowling Green State University.[8]
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^Richtler, T; Grebel, E (1994). "The cases of the "disk" globular clusters NGC 6496, NGC 6624, and NGC 6637". Astronomy and Astrophysics. 290: 412–420. Bibcode:1994A&A...290..412R.
^Armandroff, Taft E. (1988). "Color-magnitude diagrams for six metal-rich, low-latitude globular clusters". The Astronomical Journal. 96: 588. Bibcode:1988AJ.....96..588A. doi:10.1086/114833.
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