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The discovery of multiple stellar populations in globular clusters raises fundamental questions concerning the formation and dynamical history of these systems. In a previous study aimed at exploring the formation of second-generation (SG)…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-28 Enrico Vesperini , Stephen L. W. McMillan , Francesca D'Antona , Annibale D'Ercole

I review the methods, mostly developed in the last decade, that are commonly used to identify and characterize multiple populations (MPs) in Globular Clusters based on photometry. I summarize the results from the recent surveys of MPs with…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-03-18 A. P. Milone

Globular clusters represent stellar laboratories where observations can be used to validate models of stellar evolution. In this study, we put forth new ultraviolet (UV) photometric results of stars in the Galactic globular cluster NGC…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-06 Rashi Jain , S. Vig , S. K. Ghosh

We discuss constraints on the formation of multiple populations in globular clusters (GCs) imposed by their present-day kinematics (velocity dispersion and anisotropy) and spatial distribution. We argue that the observational evidence…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-12-08 Vincent Hénault-Brunet

We investigate the relationship between the mass of a globular cluster core and the sizes of its various stellar populations in a sample of 56 globular clusters. The number of core red giant branch stars is found to scale sub-linearly with…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 N. Leigh , A. Sills , C. Knigge

Since the discovery of chemically peculiar stars in globular clusters in the last century, the study of multiple populations has become increasingly important, given that chemical inhomogeneity is found in almost all globular clusters.…

Galactic globular clusters are old, dense star systems typically containing 10\super{4}--10\super{7} stars. As an old population of stars, globular clusters contain many collapsed and degenerate objects. As a dense population of stars,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 Matthew J. Benacquista , Jonathan M. B. Downing

The finding of multiple stellar populations (MP), defined by patterns in the stellar element abundances, is nowadays considered a distinctive feature of globular clusters. However, while data availability and quality improved in last…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-03-14 G. Valle , M. Dell'Omodarme , E. Tognelli

We examine four ancient Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) globular clusters (GCs) for evidence of multiple stellar populations using the Advanced Camera for Surveys and Wide Field Camera 3 on the Hubble Space Telescope Programme GO-14164. NGC…

We investigate the long-term dynamical evolution of two distinct stellar populations of low-mass stars in globular clusters in order to study whether the energy equipartition process can explain the high number of stars harbouring abundance…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 T. Decressin , H. Baumgardt , P. Kroupa

We present early results from a detailed analysis of the BSS population in Galactic GCs based on HST data.Using proper motion cleaning of the color-magnitude diagrams we construct a large catalog of BSSs and study some population…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-10-05 Mirko Simunovic , Thomas H. Puzia

This paper is aimed at emphasizing some of the main hints, constraints and difficulties we currently have in trying to understand how globular clusters formed, along with their multiple stellar generations, an issue that must be regarded as…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2013-02-05 Alvio Renzini

We present the results of a comprehensive analysis of the structure and kinematics of six Galactic globular clusters. By comparing the results of the most extensive photometric and kinematical surveys available to date with suited dynamical…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-05 A. Sollima , M. Bellazzini , J. -W. Lee

Observations revealed the presence of multiple stellar populations in globular clusters (GCs) that exhibit wide abundance variations and multiple sequences in Hertzsprung-Russell (HR) diagram. We present a scenario for the formation of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 Dengkai Jiang , Zhanwen Han , Lifang Li

The discovery of multiple stellar populations in globular clusters has implications for all the aspects of the study of these stellar systems. In this paper, by means of N-body simulations, we study the evolution of binary stars in…

The galactic population of globular clusters are old, dense star systems, with a typical cluster containing $10^4 - 10^6$ stars. As an old population of stars, globular clusters contain many collapsed and degenerate objects. As a dense…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-19 Matthew Benacquista

There is vast evidence from observations of multiple stellar populations (MPs) in globular clusters (GCs). To explore the issue theoretically, this work considers two subsolar metallicities, two ages, and two initial abundance patterns: a…

The present-day globular cluster populations of galaxies reflect the cumulative effects of billions of years of galaxy evolution via such processes as mergers, tidal stripping, accretion, and in some cases the partial or even complete…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Michael J. West

Star clusters are ideal tracers of star formation activity in systems outside the volume that can be studied using individual, resolved stars. These unresolved clusters span orders of magnitude in brightness and mass, and their formation is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-07-20 I. S. Konstantopoulos , K. Fedotov , S. C. Gallagher , A. Maybhate , P. R. Durrell , J. C. Charlton

We present a simulation of twelve globular clusters with different concentration, distance, and background population, whose properties are transformed into Gaia observables with the help of the lates Gaia science performances…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2013-01-21 E. Pancino , M. Bellazzini , S. Marinoni