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Context. Omega Cen is the largest known globular cluster in the Milky Way. It is also quite a complex object with a large metallicity spread and multiple stellar populations. Despite a number of studies over the past several decades, the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-04-23 Nagaraj Vernekar , Sara Lucatello , Pete Kuzma , Lorenzo Spina

We present results of an extensive spectroscopic survey of Subgiant stars in the stellar system omega Centauri. Using infrared CaII triplet lines, we derived metallicities and radial velocities for more than 250 stars belonging to different…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 A. Sollima , E. Pancino , F. R. Ferraro , M. Bellazzini , O. Straniero , L. Pasquini

The nature and formation history of our Galaxy's largest and most enigmatic stellar cluster, known as Omega Centauri (ocen) remains debated. Here, we offer a novel approach to disentangling the complex stellar populations within ocen based…

We present the effective temperatures, surface gravities and abundances of iron, carbon and barium of 848 giant branch stars, of which 557 also have well-defined nitrogen abundances, of the globular cluster {\omega} Centauri. This work used…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Jeffrey. D. Simpson , P. L. Cottrell

We identify stellar tidal debris from the $\omega$ Centauri ($\omega$ Cen) system among field stars in the APOGEE survey via chemical tagging using a neural network trained on APOGEE observations of the $\omega$ Cen core. We find a total of…

In the complex picture of multiple stellar populations in globular clusters (GCs), a special role is played by NGC 5139 Omega Centauri. At variance with the majority of GCs, Omega Cen exhibits significant star-to-star variations in…

Interesting chemically peculiar field stars may reflect their stellar evolution history and their possible origin in a different environment from where they are found now, which is one of the most important research fields in Galactic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-03-11 Baitian Tang , J. G. Fernandez-Trincado , Chao Liu , Jincheng Yu , Hongliang Yan , Qi Gao , Jianrong Shi , Douglas Geisler

We present abundances of several light, alpha, Fe-peak, and neutron-capture elements for 66 red giant branch (RGB) stars in the Galactic globular cluster Omega Centauri. Our observations lie in the range 12.0<V<13.5 and focus on the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Christian I. Johnson , Catherine A. Pilachowski , R. Michael Rich , Jon P. Fulbright

Omega Centauri is no longer the only globular cluster known to contain multiple stellar populations, yet it remains the most puzzling. Due to the extreme way in which the multiple stellar population phenomenon manifests in this cluster, it…

An understanding of the assembly history of the complex star cluster Omega Centauri has long been sought after, with many studies separating the stars on the color-magnitude diagram into multiple groupings across small magnitude ranges.…

Studies of the kinematics and chemical compositions of Galactic globular clusters (GCs) enable the reconstruction of the history of star formation, chemical evolution, and mass assembly of the Galaxy. Using the latest data release (DR16) of…

Recent wide-field photometric surveys (Lee et al.; Pancino et al.) have shown the existence of a previously unknown metal-rich ([Fe/H] -0.6) stellar population in the galactic globular cluster omega Centauri. The discovery of this new…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 F. R. Ferraro , M. Bellazzini , E. Pancino

Globular clusters (GCs) and many nuclear clusters (NCs) show evidence for hosting multiple generations of stellar populations. Younger stellar populations in NCs appear to reside in disk like structures, including the nuclear cluster in our…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-15 Alessandra Mastrobuono-Battisti , Hagai B. Perets

We present spectroscopic abundances and radial velocities for giant stars in the Galactic globular cluster omega Centauri based on the CaII infrared triplet. Two samples of stars were observed: 234 stars at M_V = 1.25 on the lower giant…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-05 Nicholas B. Suntzeff , Robert P. Kraft

The galactic globular cluster Omega Centauri is the most massive of its kind, with a complex mix of multiple stellar populations and several kinematic and dynamical peculiarities. Different mean proper motions have been detected among the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-05-13 N. Sanna , E. Pancino , A. Zocchi , F. R. Ferraro , P. B. Stetson

We present a chemical-composition analysis of 77 red-giant stars in Omega Centauri. We have measured abundances for carbon and nitrogen, and combined our results with abundances of O, Na, La, and Fe that we determined in our previous work.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 A. F. Marino , A. P. Milone , G. Piotto , S. Cassisi , F. D'Antona , J. Anderson , A. Aparicio , L. R. Bedin , A. Renzini , S. Villanova

Chemical evolution models are presented for the anomalous globular cluster Omega Centauri. After demonstrating that the chemical features of Omega Cen can not be reproduced in the framework of the closed-box self-enrichment scenario, we…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 D. Romano , F. Matteucci , M. Tosi , E. Pancino , M. Bellazzini , F. R. Ferraro , M. Limongi , A. Sollima

We have determined stellar parameters and abundances for 221 giant branch stars in the globular cluster {\omega} Centauri. A combination of photometry and lower-resolution spectroscopy was used to determine temperature, gravity,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Jeffrey D. Simpson , P. L. Cottrell , C. C. Worley

Omega Centauri is a peculiar Globular Cluster formed by a complex stellar population. To shed light on this, we studied 172 stars belonging to the 5 SGBs that we can identify in our photometry, in order to measure their [Fe/H] content as…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-22 S. Villanova , D. Geisler , R. G. Gratton , S. Cassisi

From correlations between orbital parameters, several new coherent groups of stars were recently identified in the Galactic disc and suggested to correspond to remnants of disrupted satellites. To reconstruct their origin at least three…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 R. Ženovienė , G. Tautvaišienė , B. Nordström , E. Stonkutė