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We present the abundances analysis for a sample of 11 red giant branch stars in the metal-poor globular cluster NGC 6809 based on high-resolution spectra. Our main goals are to characterize its chemical composition and analyze this…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-19 M. J. Rain , S. Villanova , C. Muñoz , C. Valenzuela-Calderon

The view of globular clusters (GCs) as simple systems continues to unravel, revealing complex objects hosting multiple chemical peculiarities. Using differential abundance analysis, we probe the chemistry of the Type I GC, NGC 288 and the…

[Abridged] Detailed chemical tagging of individual stellar populations in the Galactic globular cluster (GC) NGC 1851 is presented. Abundances are derived from FLAMES spectra for the largest sample of giants (124) ever analysed in this…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Eugenio Carretta , Sara Lucatello , Raffaele Gratton , A. Bragaglia , Valentina D'Orazi

Globular Clusters (GCs) are natural laboratories where stellar and chemical evolution can be studied in detail. In addition, their chemical patterns and kinematics can tell us wich Galactic structure (Disk, Bulge, Halo or extragalactic) the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-10 A. Mura-Guzmán , S. Villanova , C. Muñoz , B. Tang

Context: Globular clusters (GCs) in the outer halo are important probes of the composition and origin of the Galactic stellar halo. Aims: We derive chemical element abundance ratios in red giants belonging to the remote (R~90 kpc) GC Pal 3…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-13 Andreas Koch , Patrick Côté , Andrew McWilliam

We report the abundance analysis of one red giant branch star in the metal-poor outer halo globular cluster NGC 5694. We obtain [Fe/H] = -1.93, based on the ionized lines, and our metallicity measurement is in good agreement with previous…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Jae-Woo Lee , Mercedes Lopez-Morales , Bruce W. Carney

We present ages, [Fe/H] and abundances of the alpha elements Ca I, Si I, Ti I, Ti II, and light elements Mg I, Na I, and Al I for 31 globular clusters in M31, which were obtained from high resolution, high signal-to-noise ratio (SNR$>60$)…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-23 J. E. Colucci , R. A. Bernstein , J. Cohen

We present the abundance analysis for a sample of 18 red giant branch stars in the metal-poor globular cluster NGC 4147 based on medium and high resolution spectra. This is the first extensive spectroscopic study of this cluster. We derive…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-07-27 Sandro Villanova , Lorenzo MOnaco , Cristian Moni Bidin , Paulina Assmann

Globular Clusters are among the oldest objects in the Galaxy, thus their researchers are key to understanding the processes of evolution and formation that the galaxy has experienced in early stages. Spectroscopic studies allow us to carry…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-03-24 Carolina Montecinos , S. Villanova , C. Muňoz , C. C. Cortés

We numerically investigate abundance properties of the Galactic globular clusters (GCs) by adopting a new ``external pollution'' scenario. In this framework, GCs are assumed to originate in forming low-mass dwarfs embedded in dark matter…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 K. Bekki , S. W. Campbell , J. C. Lattanzio , J. E. Norris

The Hubble Space Telescope (HST) UV Legacy Survey of Galactic Globular Clusters (GCs) has investigated multiple stellar populations by means of the "chromosome map" (ChM) diagnostic tool that maximises the separation between stars with…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-08 A. F. Marino , A. P. Milone , A. Sills , D. Yong , A. Renzini , L. R. Bedin , G. Cordoni , F. D'Antona , H. Jerjen , A. Karakas , E. Lagioia , G. Piotto , M. Tailo

NGC1851 is surrounded by a stellar component that extends more than ten times beyond the tidal radius. Although the nature of this stellar structure is not known, it has been suggested to be a sparse halo of stars or associated with a…

We present chemical abundances for 17 elements in a sample of 11 red giant branch stars in NGC 6362 from UVES spectra. NGC 6362 is one of the least massive globulars where multiple populations have been detected, yet its detailed chemical…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-04-12 D. Massari , A. Mucciarelli , E. Dalessandro , M. Bellazzini , S. Cassisi , G. Fiorentino , R. A. Ibata , C. Lardo , M. Salaris

Multiple stellar populations in globular clusters (GCs) are distinct by their different abundances of light elements. The abundance anti-correlations point towards a nucleosynthesis origin due to high-temperature H burning, but it remains…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-02-03 Eugenio Carretta , Angela Bragaglia

Almost several decades after the discovery of the first multiple populations in galactic globular clusters (GC) the debate on their formation is still extremely current and NGC2808 remains one of the best benchmark to test any scenario for…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-18 Marcella Di Criscienzo , Paolo Ventura , Francesca D'Antona , Flavia Dell'Agli , Marco Tailo

We report on evidence of the inhomogeneity (multiplicity) of the stellar population in the Galactic globular cluster (GC) NGC 3201, which is irregularly reddened across its face. We carried out a more detailed and careful analysis of our…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-18 V. Kravtsov , G. Alcaino , G. Marconi , F. Alvarado

We present CN and CH indices and CaII triplet metallicities for 34 giant stars and chemical abundances for 33 elements in 14 giants in the globular cluster M2. Assuming the program stars are cluster members, our analysis reveals (i) an…

Globular clusters (GCs) are key to understanding the formation and evolution of our Galaxy. While the abundances of light and Fe-peak elements in GCs have been widely studied, investigations into heavier, neutron-capture elements -- and…

About one-fifth of the Galactic globular clusters (GCs), dubbed Type II GCs, host distinct stellar populations with different heavy elements abundances. NGC 1851 is one of the most studied Type II GCs, surrounded by several controversies…

NGC 6402 is among the most massive globular clusters in the Galaxy, but little is known about its detailed chemical composition. Therefore, we obtained radial velocities and/or chemical abundances of 11 elements for 41 red giant branch…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-13 Christian I. Johnson , Nelson Caldwell , R. Michael Rich , Mario Mateo , John I. Bailey