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Milky Way globular clusters (GCs) display chemical enrichment in a phenomenon called multiple stellar populations (MSPs). While the enrichment mechanism is not fully understood, there is a correlation between a cluster's mass and the…

We present a photometric study of the prototype merger remnant NGC 3610 and its globular cluster (GC) system, based on new GEMINI/GMOS and ACS/HST archival images. Thanks to the large FOV of our GMOS data, larger than previous studies, we…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-01-10 Lilia P. Bassino , Juan P. Caso

(Abridged) Globular clusters host multiple stellar populations showing different sodium enrichments. These various populations can be observed along the main sequence, red giant and horizontal branch phases. Recently it was shown, however,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Corinne Charbonnel , William Chantereau , Thibaut Decressin , Georges Meynet , Daniel Schaerer

We demonstrate that among the potential sources of the primordial abundance variations of the proton-capture elements in globular-cluster stars proposed so far, such as the hot-bottom burning in massive AGB stars and H burning in the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 Pavel Denissenkov , Don VandenBerg , David Hartwick , Falk Herwig , Achim Weiss , Bill Paxton

We have studied the stellar main sequence (MS) of the globular cluster NGC2298 using deep HST/ACS observations in the F606W and F814W bands covering an area of 3.4' x 3.4' around the cluster centre or about twice the cluster's half-mass…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Guido De Marchi , Luigi Pulone

We investigate the binary content of the two stellar populations that coexist in the globular cluster NGC 3201. Previous studies of binary stars in globular clusters have reported higher binary fractions in their first populations (P1,…

In this study we present first results from multi-wavelength Hubble Space Telescope (HST) observations of the Galactic globular cluster GC NGC2808 as an extension of the Hubble Space Telescope UV Legacy Survey of Galactic GCs (GO-13297 and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-08-06 A. P. Milone , A. F. Marino , G. Piotto , A. Renzini , L. R. Bedin , J. Anderson , S. Cassisi , F. D'Antona , A. Bellini , H. Jerjen , A. Pietrinferni , P. Ventura

Using the Keck Cosmic Web Imager we obtain spectra of several globular clusters (GCs), ultra compact dwarfs (UCDs) and the inner halo starlight of M87, at a similar projected galactocentric radius of $\sim$5 kpc. This enables us, for the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-07-15 Duncan A. Forbes , Anna Ferré-Mateu , Mark Durré , Jean P. Brodie , Aaron J. Romanowsky

We present chemical abundances of Al and several Fe-Peak and neutron-capture elements for 13 red giant branch stars in the Galactic globular cluster NGC 6171 (M107). The abundances were determined using equivalent width and spectrum…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 Julia E. O'Connell , Christian I. Johnson , Catherine A. Pilachowski , Geoffrey Burks

We present observations of the two closest globular clusters, NGC 6121 and NGC 6397, taken with the NIRISS detector of JWST. The combination of our new JWST data with archival Hubble Space Telescope (HST) images allows us to compute proper…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-12 M. Libralato , R. Gerasimov , L. Bedin , J. Anderson , D. Apai , A. Bellini , A. J. Burgasser , M. Griggio , D. Nardiello , M. Salaris , M. Scalco , E. Vesperini

We study the globular cluster system (GCS) of the giant elliptical NGC4374 (M84) in the Virgo cluster using B and R photometry. The colour distribution is bimodal with peaks at B-R=1.11 and B-R=1.36, fitting well to those found in other…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 M. Gomez , T. Richtler

From deep color-magnitude arrays made from V and I images taken with the Hubble Space Telescope's WFPC2 camera we have determined luminosity functions (LFs) down to a level that corresponds to about 0.13 solar masses, for the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 G. Piotto , A. M. Cool , I. R. King

The properties of globular cluster systems (GCSs) in the core of the nearby galaxy clusters Fornax and Hydra I are presented. In the Fornax cluster we have gathered the largest radial velocity sample of a GCS system so far, which enables us…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-12-24 Michael Hilker , Tom Richtler

We use measurements of nitrogen abundances in red giants to search for multiple stellar populations in the four most metal-poor globular clusters (GCs) in the Fornax dwarf spheroidal galaxy (Fornax 1, 2, 3, and 5). New imaging in the F343N…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-22 S. S. Larsen , J. P. Brodie , F. Grundahl , J. Strader

We have used the Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 aboard the Hubble Space Telescope to image the compact star cluster nuclei of the nearby, late-type, low-luminosity spiral galaxies NGC 4395, NGC 4242, and ESO 359-029. We also analyze archival…

We have previously reported on chemical abundance trends with evolutionary state in the globular cluster NGC 6397 discovered in analyses of spectra taken with FLAMES at the VLT. Here, we reinvestigate the FLAMES-UVES sample of 18 stars,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-09-24 T. Nordlander , A. J. Korn , O. Richard , K. Lind

A significant fraction of stars in globular clusters (about 70%-85%) exhibit peculiar chemical patterns with strong abundance variations in light elements along with constant abundances in heavy elements. These abundance anomalies can be…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 T. Decressin , H. Baumgardt , P. Kroupa , G. Meynet , C. Charbonnel

We use Cycle 21 Hubble Space Telescope (HST) observations and HST archival ACS Treasury observations of Galactic Globular Clusters to find and characterize two stellar populations in NGC 5024 (M53), NGC 5272 (M3), and NGC 6352. For these…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-07-27 R. Wagner-Kaiser , D. C. Stenning , E. Robinson , T. von Hippel , A. Sarajedini , D. A. van Dyk , N. Stein , W. H. Jefferys

This is the second paper in our series about the search for multiple populations in Magellanic Cloud star clusters using the Hubble Space Telescope. Here we report the detection of multiple stellar populations in the colour-magnitude…

NGC 362 is a non-common Type II Galactic globular cluster, showing a complex pseudo two-color diagram or 'chromosome map'. The clear separation of its stellar populations in the color-magnitude diagram and the distribution of the giant…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-07-13 C. Vargas , S. Villanova , D. Geisler , C. Muñoz , L. Monaco , J. O'Connell , Ata Sarajedini