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We investigate aluminum abundance variations in the stellar populations of globular clusters using both literature measurements of sodium and aluminum and APOGEE measurements of nitrogen and aluminum abundances. For the latter, we show that…

We study the distribution of aluminum abundances among red giants in the peculiar globular cluster NGC 1851. Aluminum abundances were derived from the strong doublet Al I 8772-8773 A measured on intermediate resolution FLAMES spectra of 50…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-05 Eugenio Carretta , Valentina D'Orazi , Raffaele G. Gratton , Sara Lucatello

We present radial velocities and chemical abundances of O, Na, Mg, Al, Si, Ca, Cr, Fe, Co, Ni, and Cu for a sample of 156 red giant branch stars in two Galactic bulge fields centered near (l,b)=(+5.25,-3.02) and (0,-12). The (+5.25,-3.02)…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 Christian I. Johnson , R. Michael Rich , Chiaki Kobayashi , Andrea Kunder , Andreas Koch

Medium-resolution (R~6,500) spectra of 97 giant stars in the globular cluster 47 Tucanae (47 Tuc) have been used to derive the C and N abundance sensitive index, deltaC, and to infer abundances of several key elements, Fe, Na, Si, Ca, Zr…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-03-05 C. C. Worley , P. L. Cottrell

Context: The study of chemical abundance patterns in globular clusters is of key importance to constrain the different candidates for intra-cluster pollution of light elements. Aims: We aim at deriving accurate abundances for a large range…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-12-10 A. O. Thygesen , L. Sbordone , S. Andrievsky , S. Korotin , D. Yong , S. Zaggia , H. -G. Ludwig , R. Collet , M. Asplund , F. D'Antona , J. Meléndez , A. D'Ercole

We aim to determine abundances of Li, O and Na in a sample of of 110 turn-off (TO) stars, in order to study the evolution of light elements in this cluster and to put our results in perspective with observations of other globular and open…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-05-28 V. Dobrovolskas , A. Kučinskas , P. Bonifacio , S. A. Korotin , L. Sbordone , E. Caffau , D. Prakapavičius , M. Steffen , H. -G. Ludwig , F. Royer

Detailed chemical abundances of two stars in the intermediate-age Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) globular cluster NGC~1718 are presented, based on high resolution spectroscopic observations with the MIKE spectrograph. The detailed abundances…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-02-12 Charli Sakari , Andrew McWilliam , George Wallerstein

We present the first comprehensive abundance study of the massive, outer halo globular cluster (GC) M 75 (NGC 6864). This unique system shows a very extended trimodal horizontal branch (HB), but no other clues for multiple populations have…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2013-01-11 Nikolay Kacharov , Andreas Koch

We present detailed abundance measurements for 45 globular clusters (GCs) in galaxies in (and, in one case, beyond) the Local Group. The measurements are based on new high-resolution integrated-light spectra of GCs in NGC 185, NGC 205, M31,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-04-20 S. S. Larsen , P. Eitner , E. Magg , M. Bergemann , C. A. S. Moltzer , J. P. Brodie , A. J. Romanowsky , J. Strader

We present the chemical compositions for eight bright giants in the globular cluster NGC 1851. Our analysis reveals large star-to-star abundance variations and correlations of the light elements O, Na, and Al, a feature found in every well…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 David Yong , Frank Grundahl

We present the abundance analysis of stars from the tip of the red giant branch (RGB) to below the RGB-bump in the globular cluster NGC 2808, based on high resolution echelle spectra. We derived abundances of Al, alpha-process elements (Si…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Eugenio Carretta

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

The FLAMES survey ``Na-O anti-correlation and HB" uncovered the modern standard for globular clusters (GCs), that is their ubiquitous multiple stellar populations (MPs) distinct by the abundance of proton-capture elements. That survey can…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-25 Eugenio Carretta

Homogeneous abundances of light elements, alpha and Fe-group elements from high-resolution FLAMES spectra are presented for 76 red giant stars in M54, a massive globular cluster (GC) lying in the nucleus of the Sagittarius dwarf galaxy. We…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-19 E. Carretta , A. Bragaglia , R. G. Gratton , S. Lucatello , M. Bellazzini , G. Catanzaro , F. Leone , Y. Momany , G. Piotto , V. D'Orazi

A recent analysis comparing the [Na/Fe] distributions of red giant branch (RGB) and asymptotic giant branch (AGB) stars in the Galactic globular cluster NGC 6752 found that the ratio of Na-poor to Na-rich stars changes from 30:70 on the RGB…

This paper investigates the peculiar behaviour of the light even (alpha-elements) and odd atomic number elements in red giants in the galactic bulge, both in terms of the chemical evolution of the bulge, and in terms of possible deep-mixing…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 A. Lecureur , V. Hill , M. Zoccali , B. Barbuy , A. Gomez , D. Minniti , S. Ortolani , A. Renzini

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…

We present chemical abundances in three red giants and two turn-off stars in the metal poor Galactic globular cluster (GC) NGC 6397 based on spectroscopy obtained with the MIKE high resolution spectrograph on the Magellan 6.5-m Clay…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-28 Andreas Koch , Andrew McWilliam

It has been well established that Galactic Globular clusters (GCs) harbour more than one stellar population, distinguishable by the anti-correlations of light element abundances (C-N, Na-O, and Mg-Al). These studies have been extended…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-05-02 B. T. MacLean , S. W. Campbell , G. M. De Silva , J. Lattanzio , V. DOrazi , P. L. Cottrell , Y. Momany , L. Casagrande

Globular clusters exhibit star-to-star chemical variations, traceable through both photometric and spectroscopic data. In this study, we investigate chemical variations in the globular cluster NGC104 (47Tucanae), aiming to trace multiple…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-06-16 S. Villanova , L. Monaco , Y. Momany , A. Plotnikova , I. Ordenes