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Our understanding of multiple populations in globular clusters (GCs) largely comes from photometry and spectroscopy: appropriate photometric diagrams can disentangle first and second populations (1P and 2P)-1P having chemical signatures…

There is a growing body of evidence for the presence of multiple stellar populations in some globular clusters, including NGC 1851. For most of these peculiar globular clusters, however, the evidence for the multiple red giant-branches…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-11-20 Sang-Il Han , Young-Wook Lee , Seok-Joo Joo , Sangmo Tony Sohn , Suk-Jin Yoon , Hak-Sub Kim , Jae-Woo Lee

Abundances relative to iron for carbon, nitrogen, strontium and barium are presented for 33 stars on the red giant branch of the globular cluster omega Centauri. They are based on intermediate-resolution spectroscopic data covering the blue…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Laura M. Stanford , Gary S. Da Costa , John E. Norris

Data from the literature are used to explore the relation between $\lambda$3883 CN band strength and the sodium and oxygen abundances of red giants in the globular cluster Messier 5. Although there is a broad tendency for CN-strong giants…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-17 Graeme H. Smith , Payal N. Modi , Katherine M. Hamren

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 evidence for the contribution of high-mass globular clusters to the stellar halo of the Galaxy. Using SDSS-II/SEGUE spectra of over 1900 G- and K-type halo giants, we identify for the first time a subset of stars with CN…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-19 Sarah L. Martell , Eva K. Grebel

Low resolution SDSS/SEGUE spectra have been used to study the behavior of the strengths of the CN and CH molecular bands in stars at different evolutionary stages of the open cluster NGC 6791. We find a significant spread in the strengths…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-11 R. Carrera

In the last years, photometric and spectroscopic evidence has demonstrated that many, maybe all the Globular Clusters (GC) host multiple stellar populations. High-resolution spectroscopy has established that, while most GCs are…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-07-13 A. P. Milone , G. Piotto , R. L. Bedin , A. F. Marino , Y. Momany , S. Villanova

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

Context. NGC 1851 is one of several globular clusters for which multiple stellar populations of the subgiant branch have been clearly identified and a difference in metallicity detected. A crucial piece of information on the formation…

The analysis of multiple populations (MPs) in globular clusters, both spectroscopically and photometrically, is key in understanding their formation and evolution. The relatively narrow Johnson U, F336W, and Stromgren and Sloan u filters…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-04-11 Jeffrey D. Cummings , Douglas Geisler , Sandro Villanova

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

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…

We present a photometric study of M13 multiple stellar populations over a wide field of view, covering approximately 6.5 half-light radii, using archival Isaac Newton Telescope observations to build an accurate multi-band Str\"omgren…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-12-06 A. Savino , D. Massari , A. Bragaglia , E. Dalessandro , E. Tolstoy

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…

[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

Data-driven analysis methods can help to infer physical properties of red giant stars where "gold-standard" asteroseismic data are not available. The study of optical and infrared spectra of red giant stars with data-driven analyses has…

Ancient ($>$10 Gyr) globular clusters (GCs) show chemical abundance variations in the form of patterns among certain elements, e.g. N correlates with Na and anti-correlates with O. Recently, N abundance spreads have also been observed in…

Wide-field and deep DECam multi-band photometry, combined with HST data for the core of the Galactic globular cluster NGC 2808, allowed us to study the distribution of various stellar sub-populations and stars in different evolutionary…

We analyze the outer regions of M33, beyond 15 kpc in projected distance from its center using Subaru/HSC multi-color imaging. We identify Red Giant Branch (RGB) stars and Red Clump (RC) stars using the surface gravity sensitive $NB515$…