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We model the evolution of manganese relative to iron in the progenitor system of the globular cluster Omega Centauri by means of a self-consistent chemical evolution model. We use stellar yields that already reproduce the measurements of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-28 Donatella Romano , Gabriele Cescutti , Francesca Matteucci

We present wide-field and high-precision BV and Ca & Stromgren by photometry of omega Centauri, which represents one of the most extensive photometric surveys to date for this cluster. The member stars of omega Cen are well discriminated…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 S. -C. Rey , Y. -W. Lee , C. Ree , J. -M. Joo , Y. -J. Sohn , A. Walker

We present results of a search for optical counterparts of X-ray sources in and toward the globular cluster Omega Centauri (NGC 5139) using the Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) on the Hubble Space Telescope. The ACS data consist of a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Adrienne M. Cool , Daryl Haggard , Tersi Arias , Michelle Brochmann , Jason Dorfman , April Gafford , Vivian White , Jay Anderson

The internal dynamics of multiple stellar populations in Globular Clusters (GCs) provides unique constraints on the physical processes responsible for their formation. Specifically, the present-day kinematics of cluster stars, such as…

Context. The Perseus complex in the outer disk of the Galaxy hosts a number of clusters and associations of young stars. Gaia is providing a detailed characterization of their kinematic structure and evolutionary properties. Aims. Within…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-30 C. Fanelli , L. Origlia , E. Oliva , E. Dalessandro , A. Mucciarelli , N. Sanna

NGC3201 is a globular cluster (GC) which shows very peculiar kinematic characteristics including an extreme radial velocity and a highly retrograde orbit, strongly suggesting an extraGalactic origin. Our aims are to study NGC3201 in the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-15 C. Muñoz , D. Geisler , S. Villanova

The first massive stars triggered the onset of chemical evolution by releasing the first metals (elements heavier than helium) in the Universe. The nature of these stars and how the early chemical enrichment took place is still largely…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-09 Arthur Choplin , Raphael Hirschi

We find that the chemical abundances and dynamics of APOGEE and GALAH stars in the local stellar halo are inconsistent with a scenario in which the inner halo is primarily composed of debris from a single, massive, ancient merger event, as…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-03-01 Thomas Donlon , Heidi Jo Newberg

We have for the first time identified the early stellar disk in the Milky Way by using a combination of elemental abundances and kinematics. Using data from APOGEE DR17 and Gaia we select stars in the Mg-Mn-Al-Fe plane with elemental…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-06-28 Sofia Feltzing , Diane Feuillet

Chemical abundances are an essential tool in untangling the Milky Way's enrichment history. However, the evolution of the interstellar medium abundance gradient with cosmic time is lost as a result of radial mixing processes. For the first…

$\omega$ Centauri, the most massive globular cluster in the Milky Way, has long been suspected to be the stripped nucleus of a dwarf galaxy that fell into the Galaxy a long time ago. There is considerable evidence for this scenario…

Carbon abundances in first-ascent giant stars are usually lower than those of their main-sequence counterparts. At moderate metallicities, stellar evolution of single stars cannot account for the existence of red-giant branch stars with…

Ancient Galactic Globular Clusters (GCs) have long fascinated astronomers due to their intriguing multiple stellar populations characterized by variations in light-element abundances. Among these clusters, Type-II GCs stand out as they…

Open Clusters are born and evolve along the Milky Way plane, on them is imprinted the history of the Galactic disc, including the chemical and dynamical evolution. Chemical and dynamical properties of open clusters can be derived from…

Context. With the increasing number of discoveries of globular clusters in the inner Milky Way, the need for spectroscopic confirmation and further investigation of their stellar populations and chemodynamical properties has become crucial.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-10-30 Dongwook Lim , Sang-Hyun Chun , Young-Wook Lee , Chul Chung , Andreas J. Koch-Hansen , Seungsoo Hong

The chemical composition of multiple populations in the massive globular cluster (GC) NGC~2808 is addressed with the homogeneous abundance re-analysis of 140 red giant branch (RGB) stars. UVES spectra for 31 stars and GIRAFFE spectra for…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-23 Eugenio Carretta

The latest edition of the APOGEE-2/DR14 survey catalogue and the first \texttt{Payne} data release of APOGEE abundance determinations by Ting et al. are examined. We identify 31 previously unremarked metal-poor giant stars with anomalously…

We present [Fe/H] and [Ca/Fe] of $\sim600$ red giant branch (RGB) members of the globular cluster $\omega$ Centauri. We collect medium-resolution ($R\sim2000$) spectra using the Blanco 4 m telescope at the Cerro Tololo Inter-American…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-09-27 Deokkeun An , Young Sun Lee , Jae In Jung , Soo-Chang Rey , Jaehyon Rhee , Jae-Woo Lee , Young-Wook Lee , Young Hoon Joe

The Milky Way nuclear star cluster (MW NSC) has been used as a template to understand the origin and evolution of galactic nuclei and the interaction of nuclear star clusters with supermassive black holes. It is the only nuclear star…

The stellar populations in the inner kiloparsecs of the Milky Way (MW) show complex kinematical and chemical structures. The origin and evolution of these structures is still under debate. Here we study the central region of a fully…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-04-03 Tobias Buck , Melissa Ness , Aura Obreja , Andrea V. Macciò , Aaron A. Dutton