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We started a photometric survey using the WFC3/UVIS instrument onboard the Hubble Space Telescope to search for multiple populations within Magellanic Cloud star clusters at various ages. In this paper, we introduce this survey. As first…

We present a detailed analysis of the spatial distribution of the stellar populations in the Galactic globular cluster omega Centauri. Taking advantage of the large photometric catalog published by Pancino et al. (2000), we confirm that…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 E. Pancino , A. Seleznev , F. R. Ferraro , M. Bellazzini , G. Piotto

We present detailed C, O, Na, Mg, Si, Ca, Ti, V, Fe, Zr, Ba, and Eu abundance measurements for 20 red giant branch (RGB) stars in the LMC star cluster NGC 1846 ([Fe/H] = -0.59). This cluster is 1.95 Gyr old and lies just below the supposed…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-14 Wei Shen Oh , Thomas Nordlander , Gary Da Costa , Dougal Mackey

In the context of the Hubble Space Telescope UV Survey of Galactic Globular Clusters (GCs), we derived high-precision, multi-band photometry to investigate the multiple stellar populations in the massive and metal-poor GC M 15. By creating…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-04-04 D. Nardiello , A. P. Milone , G. Piotto , J. Anderson , L. R. Bedin , A. Bellini , S. Cassisi , M. Libralato , A. F. Marino

We have used high resolution WFPC2-HST and wide field ground-based observations to construct a catalog of blue straggler stars (BSS) which spans the entire radial extent of the globular cluster NGC 6752. The BSS sample is the most extensive…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 E. Sabbi , F. R. Ferraro , A. Sills , R. T. Rood

We present an analysis of the multiple stellar populations of the globular cluster NGC 1851. We used lower resolution spectra of giant stars to measure CN, CH, and calcium H & K spectral indices, and determine elemental abundances for…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-31 Jeffrey D. Simpson , Sarah L. Martell , Colin A. Navin

Abundances of C, N, and O are determined in four bright red giants that span the known abundance range for light (Na and Al) and s-process (Zr and La) elements in the globular cluster NGC 1851. The abundance sum C+N+O exhibits a range of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 David Yong , Frank Grundahl , Francesca D'Antona , Amanda I. Karakas , John C. Lattanzio , John E. Norris

We performed low-resolution spectroscopy for the red giant branch stars in an intriguing globular cluster (GC) NGC 2808, which hosts subpopulations with extreme helium and light-element abundances. In order to trace N, C, and Ca abundance…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-09-08 Seungsoo Hong , Dongwook Lim , Chul Chung , Jaeyeon Kim , Sang-Il Han , Young-Wook Lee

We use abundances of Ca, O, Na, Al from high resolution UVES spectra of 200 red giants in 17 globular clusters (GCs) to investigate the correlation found by Lee et al. (2009) between chemical enrichment from SN II and star-to-star…

The majority of Galactic globular clusters (GCs) contain multiple stellar populations displaying specific chemical abundance variations. In particular, GCs generally contain a `primordial' population with abundances similar to field stars,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-02-01 E. Leitinger , H. Baumgardt , I. Cabrera-Ziri , M. Hilker , E. Pancino

In this paper we present a multi-wavelength analysis of the complex stellar populations within the massive globular cluster Mayall II (G1), a satellite of the nearby Andromeda galaxy projected at a distance of 40 kpc. We used images…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-13 D. Nardiello , G. Piotto , A. P. Milone , R. M. Rich , S. Cassisi , L. R. Bedin , A. Bellini , A. Renzini

NGC 6388 and NGC 6441 are two massive Galactic bulge globular clusters which share many properties, including the presence of an extended horizontal branch (HB), quite unexpected because of their high metal content. In this paper we use…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 A. Bellini , G. Piotto , A. P. Milone , I. R. King , A. Renzini , S. Cassisi , J. Anderson , L. R. Bedin , D. Nardiello , A. Pietrinferni , A. Sarajedini

Pseudo two-colour diagrams or Chromosome maps (ChM) indicate that NGC 2808 host five different stellar populations. The existing ChMs have been derived by the Hubble Space Telescope photometry, and comprise of stars in a small field of view…

We present results from a study of 94 red giant stars in the globular cluster M53. We use low-resolution spectra to measure the strength of CN and CH features at $\sim$3800 and 4300 \r{A}, respectively. The strengths of these features are…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-09 Jeffrey M. Gerber , Eileen D. Friel , Enrico Vesperini

NGC 6791 is a unique stellar cluster, key to our understanding of both the multiple stellar population phenomenon and the evolution and assembly of the Galaxy. However, despite many investigations, its nature is still very controversial.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-11-07 Sandro Villanova , Giovanni Carraro , Douglas Geisler , Lorenzo Monaco , Paulina Assmann

We present high-precision multi-band photometry for the globular cluster (GC) M2. We combine the analysis of the photometric data obtained from the Hubble Space Telescope UV Legacy Survey of Galactic GCs GO-13297, with chemical abundances…

Owing to their extreme crowding and high and variable extinction, stars in the Galactic Bulge, within +-2 degrees of the Galactic plane, and especially those in the Nuclear Star Cluster, have only rarely been targeted for an analyses of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-08-22 N. Ryde , R. M. Rich , B. Thorsbro , M. Schultheis , T. K. Fritz , L. Origlia

Galactic globular clusters (GC) are known to have multiple stellar populations and be characterised by similar chemical features, e.g. O-Na anti-correlation. While second-population stars, identified by their Na overabundance, have been…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-07-27 Y. Wang , F. Primas , C. Charbonnel , M. Van der Swaelmen , G. Bono , W. Chantereau , G. Zhao

Due to their extreme helium abundance, the multiple stellar populations of the globular cluster NGC 2808 have been widely investigated from a photometric, spectroscopic, and kinematic perspective. The most striking feature of the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-11 Matteo Simioni , Antonino P. Milone , Luigi R. Bedin , Antonio Aparicio , Giampaolo Piotto , Enrico Vesperini , Jongsuk Hong

We used a combination of optical and near-UV Hubble Space Telescope photometry and FLAMES/ESO-VLT high-resolution spectroscopy to characterize the stellar content of the old and massive globular cluster (GC) NGC121 in the Small Magellanic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-05 E. Dalessandro , E. Lapenna , A. Mucciarelli , L. Origlia , F. R. Ferraro , B. Lanzoni