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The discovery of star-to-star abundance variations (a.k.a. multiple populations - MPs) within globular clusters (GCs), which are generally not found in the field or in lower mass open clusters, has led to a search for the unique property of…

A catalogue of superclusters of galaxies is used to investigate the influence of the supercluster environment on galaxy populations, considering galaxies brighter than M$_r<$-21+5$\log$ h. Empirical spectral synthesis techniques are applied…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 M. V. Costa-Duarte , L. Sodre , F. Durret

Multiple populations (MPs), characterized by variations in light elemental abundances, have been found in stellar clusters in the Milky Way, Magellanic Clouds, as well as several other dwarf galaxies. Based on a large amount of…

Nearly all globular clusters (GCs) studied to date show evidence for multiple stellar populations, in stark contrast to the conventional view that GCs are a mono-metallic, coeval population of stars. Building on earlier work, we propose a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-19 Charlie Conroy , David N. Spergel

We investigate the multiple stellar populations of the globular clusters M3, M5, M13, and M71 using $g^\prime$ and intermediate-band CN-$\lambda 3883$ photometry obtained with the WIYN 0.9-m telescope on Kitt Peak. We find a strong…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-09-13 William P. Bowman , Catherine A. Pilachowski , Liese van Zee , Amanda Winans , Robin Ciardullo , Caryl Gronwall

[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

We investigate the behavior of multiple stellar populations in globular clusters (GCs) using photometric diagrams constructed with Euclid photometry. By employing synthetic spectra and isochrones that incorporate the chemical differences…

Establishing the reliability with which stellar population parameters can be measured is vital to extragalactic astronomy. Galactic GCs provide an excellent medium in which to test the consistency of Single Stellar Population (SSP) models…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Jon T. Mendel , Robert N. Proctor , Duncan A. Forbes

The Hubble Space Telescope UV Legacy Survey of Galactic Globular Clusters is providing a major breakthrough in our knowledge of Globular Clusters (GCs) and their stellar populations. Among the main results, we discovered that all the…

This paper explores if, and to what an extent, the stellar populations of early type galaxies can be traced through the colour distribution of their globular cluster systems. The analysis, based on a galaxy sample from the Virgo ACS data,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Juan C. Forte , E. Irene Vega , Favio R. Faifer

Star-to-star light-element abundance variations, know as multiple stellar populations (MPs), are common in almost all Galactic globular clusters. Recently, MPs have also been detected in a number of massive clusters with ages in excess of 2…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-05-15 Chengyuan Li , Richard de Grijs

We present a detailed analysis of the internal dynamics of multiple stellar populations (MPs) in 28 Galactic Globular Clusters (GCs) across a wide field of view, extending from the innermost regions to the clusters' outskirts. Using…

Integrated light from distant galaxies is often compared to stellar population models via the equivalent widths of spectral features--spectral indices--whose strengths rely on the abundances of one or more elements. Such comparisons hinge…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 A. Dotter , B. Chaboyer , J. W. Ferguson , H. -c. Lee , G. Worthey , E. Baron , D. Jevremovic

Evolutionary synthesis models for star clusters of various metallicities including gaseous emission during the lifetime of the ionising stars are used to model star cluster systems comprising two populations: an old metal-poor globular…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Uta Fritze -- v. Alvensleben , Peter Anders , Richard de Grijs

The HST UV Survey of Globular Clusters (GCs) has investigated GCs and their stellar populations. In previous papers of this series we have introduced a pseudo two-color diagram, "chromosome map" (ChM), that maximises the separation between…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-05-29 A. F. Marino , A. P. Milone , A. Renzini , F. D'Antona , J. Anderson , L. R. Bedin , A. Bellini , G. Cordoni , E. P. Lagioia , G. Piotto , M. Tailo

Binary stars are common in star clusters and galaxies, but the detailed effects of binary evolution are not taken into account in some colour-magnitude diagram (CMD) studies. This paper studies the CMDs of twelve globular clusters via…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Zhongmu Li , Caiyan Mao , Ruheng Li , Ruxi Li , Maocai Li

We have computed low-mass stellar models and synthetic spectra for an initial chemical composition that includes the full C-N, O-Na, and Mg-Al abundance anticorrelations observed in second generation stars belonging to a number of massive…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Santi Cassisi , Alessio Mucciarelli , Adriano Pietrinferni , Maurizio Salaris , Jason Ferguson

We present a new method to estimate the fraction of stars with chemical composition of first and second(s) generation(s) currently hosted in Galactic globular clusters (GCs). We compare cluster and field stars of similar metallicity in the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-16 Eugenio Carretta

We present simple stellar population (SSP) models with scaled-solar and alpha-element enhanced abundances. The SSP models are based on the Dartmouth Stellar Evolution Database, our library of synthetic stellar spectra, and a detailed…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-13 Hyun-chul Lee , Guy Worthey , Aaron Dotter

Combining population synthesis models with simple Montecarlo simulations of stochastic effects in the number of stars occupying sparsely populated stellar evolutionary phases in the HRD, I show that the scatter observed in the photometric…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Gustavo Bruzual