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We use our new, flux-calibrated stellar population model of absorption-line indices to derive ages, metallicities, and various element abundance ratios from integrated light spectroscopy of galactic globular clusters. The ages agree well…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Daniel Thomas , Jonas Johansson , Claudia Maraston

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

The study of ages, helium mass fraction (Y) and chemical composition of globular clusters in dwarf galaxies is important for understanding the physical conditions at the main evolutionary stages of the host galaxies and for constraining the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-03-18 M. E. Sharina , V. V. Shimansky

We take a closer look at our published results of determination of ages, metallicities, helium mass fractions and abundances of chemical elements in Galactic globular clusters in order to find possible signatures of the phenomenon of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-02-03 M. E. Sharina , V. V. Shimansky

The results of determining the metallicity, age, helium mass fraction (Y) and abundances of the elements C, N, Mg, Ca, Mn, Ti and Cr by moderate resolution spectra for four globular clusters in the galaxy M 31: Bol 6, Bol 20, Bol 45 and Bol…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-01-19 M. I. Maricheva

We present abundances of globular clusters in the Milky Way and Fornax from integrated light spectra. Our goal is to evaluate the consistency of the integrated light analysis relative to standard abundance analysis for individual stars in…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-01-11 J. E. Colucci , R. A. Bernstein , A. McWilliam

We present detailed chemical abundances in 8 clusters in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC). We measure abundances of 22 elements for clusters spanning a range in age of 0.05 to 12 Gyr, providing a comprehensive picture of the chemical…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-03 J. E. Colucci , R. A. Bernstein , S. A. Cameron , A. McWilliam

Long-slit medium-resolution spectra of the Galactic globular clusters (GCs) NGC6229 and NGC6779, obtained with the CARELEC spectrograph at the 1.93-m telescope of the Haute-Provence observatory, have been used to determine the age, helium…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-15 Khamidullina D. A. , Sharina M. E. , Shimansky V. V. , Davoust E

In this paper we refine our method for the abundance analysis of high resolution spectroscopy of the integrated light of unresolved globular clusters (GCs). This method was previously demonstrated for the analysis of old ($>$10 Gyr) Milky…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-27 J. E. Colucci , R. A. Bernstein , S. A. Cameron , A. McWilliam

We present the results of determination of the age, helium mass fraction (Y), metallicity ([Fe/H]), and abundances of the elements C, N, O, Na, Mg, Ca, Ti, C and Mn for the Galactic globular cluster NGC 6652. We use its medium-resolution…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-09-02 M. E. Sharina , V. V. Shimansky

We used integrated-light medium-resolution spectra of six Galactic globular clusters and model stellar atmospheres to carry out population synthesis and to derive chemical composition and age of the clusters. We used medium-resolution…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-03-14 D. A. Khamidullina , M. E. Sharina , V. V. Shimansky , E. Davoust

We test the performance of our analysis technique for integrated-light spectra by applying it to seven well-studied Galactic GCs that span a wide range of metallicities. Integrated-light spectra were obtained by scanning the slit of the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-05-10 S. S. Larsen , J. P. Brodie , J. Strader

Recent work has shown that most globular clusters have at least two chemically distinct components, as well as cluster-to-cluster differences in the mean [O/Fe], [Mg/Fe], and [Si/Fe] ratios at similar [Fe/H] values. In order to investigate…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Don A. VandenBerg , Peter A. Bergbusch , Aaron Dotter , Jason W. Ferguson , Georges Michaud , Jacques Richer , Charles Proffitt

We derive ages, metallicities and [alpha/Fe] ratios from the integrated spectra of 23 globular clusters in M31, by employing multivariate fits to two stellar population models. In parallel we analyze spectra of 21 Galactic globular clusters…

Context. Globular clusters are considered key objects for understanding the formation and evolution of the Milky Way. In this sense, their characterisation in terms of their chemical and orbital parameters can provide constraints to the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-02-12 J. Schiappacasse-Ulloa , S. Lucatello , G. Cescutti , E. Carretta

A subset of 150 globular clusters in M87 has been selected on the basis of S/N ratio for abundance and age determinations from the sample of Paper I. Indices measuring the strength of the strongest spectral features were determined for the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Judith G. Cohen , John P. Blakeslee , Anton Ryzhov

We compare the results on the chemical composition of four globular clusters (GCs) in M31 (Bol 6, Bol 20, Bol 45, and Bol 50) (Maricheva M. 2021). Study of integrated spectra of four globular clusters in M31. Astrophys. Bull. 76:389-404.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-03-22 Sharina M. E. , Maricheva M.

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

We built modelled spectra of stellar population at high resolution and with variable alpha-elements enhancements. Analysing spectra of Galactic globular clusters we show that it is possible to derive reliably and efficiently [Mg/Fe] using…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-08-14 M. Koleva , R. Gupta , Ph. Prugniel , H. Singh

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
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