Disentangling multiple stellar populations in globular clusters using the Str\"omgren system
Abstract
An increasing amount of spectroscopic and photometric evidence is showing that the stellar populations of globular clusters are not as simple as they have been considered for many years. The presence of at least two different populations of stars is being discovered in a growing number of globular clusters, both in our Galaxy and in others. We have started a series of observations of Galactic globular clusters using the Str\"omgren photometric system in order to find the signatures of these multiple populations and establish their presence in a more complete sample of globular clusters in the Milky Way, and to study their radial distributions and extensions. We present here the first results of our survey.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1212.5799,
title = {Disentangling multiple stellar populations in globular clusters using the Str\"omgren system},
author = {J. Alonso-García and M. Catelan and P. Amigo and C. Cortés and C. A. Kuehn and F. Grundahl and G. López and R. Salinas and H. A. Smith and P. B. Stetson and A. V. Sweigart and A. A. R. Valcarce and M. Zoccali},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1212.5799},
year = {2012}
}
Comments
4 pages, 2 figures. To appear in the proceedings of "EWASS 2012- Symposium 6: Stellar Populations 55 years after the Vatican conference", in the Memorie della Societa Astronomica Italiana