- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/423/2901
- Title:
- NGC 6752 multiwavelength survey
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/423/2901
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present the results of a multiwavelength (far-ultraviolet to I band) survey of the stellar populations of the globular cluster NGC 6752, using Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph (STIS, FUV, 2001/03/01), Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS, VI on 2006/06/24) and Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3, NUV on 2010/07/31, 2010/08/07 and 2010/08/21, and UB on 2010/05/1-5) on board the Hubble Space Telescope. We have confirmed that two previously identified cataclysmic variable (CV) candidates are, in fact, dwarf novae which underwent outbursts during our observations. We have also identified previously unknown optical counterparts to two X-ray sources.
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- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/564/A60
- Title:
- NGC 4833 Na-O measured with FLAMES
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/564/A60
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Our FLAMES survey of Na-O anticorrelation in globular clusters (GCs) is extended to NGC 4833, a metal-poor GC with a long blue tail on the horizontal branch (HB). We present the abundance analysis (Na, O, Mg, Al, Si, Ca, Sc, Ti, V, Cr, Mn, Fe, Co, Ni, Cu, Zn, Y, Ba, La, Nd)for 78 red giants based on UVES and GIRAFFE spectra acquired at the ESO-VLT. NGC 4833 has [Fe/H]=-2.015+/-0.004+/-0.084dex (rms=0.014dex) from 12 stars observed with UVES; the iron abundance is homogeneous at better than 6%. The Na-O anticorrelation in NGC 4833 is quite extended, as expected from the high temperatures reached by stars on the HB, and NGC 4833 contains a conspicuous fraction of stars with extreme [O/Na] ratios. Large star-to-star variations are seen also for Mg, which spans a range of more than 0.5dex in this GC. Depletions in Mg are correlated to the abundances of O and anti-correlated with Na, Al, and Si abundances. This pattern suggests the action of nuclear processing at unusually high temperatures, producing the extreme chemistry observed in the stellar generations of NGC 4833. This extreme changes are also seen in giants of the much more massive GCs M 54 and omega Cen, and our conclusion is that NGC 4833 has probably lost a conpicuous fraction of its original mass due to bulge shocking, as also indicated by its orbit.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/645/A116
- Title:
- NGC 2808, NGC 6266 and NGC 6397 Gaia DR2 sources
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/645/A116
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Extratidal stars are stellar bodies that end up outside the tidal radius of a cluster as a result of internal processes or external forces acting upon it. The presence and spatial distribution of these stars can give us insights into the past evolution of a cluster inside our Galaxy. Previous works suggest that globular clusters, when explored in detail, show evidence of extratidal stars. We aim to search for possible extratidal stars in the Galactic globular clusters NGC 6397, NGC 2808, and NGC 6266 using the photometry and proper motion measurements from Gaia DR2 database. The extratidal stars for the clusters were selected on the basis of: their distance from the cluster center, similarity in their proper motions to the cluster population, and their position on the color-magnitude diagram of the clusters. Each cluster was explored in an annulus disk from the tidal radius up to five times the tidal radii. The significance level of the number of selected extratidal stars was determined on the basis of the distribution of Milky Way stars according to the Besancon Galaxy model and Gaia data. To understand the observed extratidal features, the orbits of the clusters were also determined using GravPot16. Finally, 120, 126, and 107 extratidal candidate stars were found lying outside the tidal radius of the globular clusters NGC 6397, NGC 2808, and NGC 6266, respectively. 70%, 25.4%, and 72.9% of the extratidal stars found are located outside the Jacobi radius of NGC 6397, NGC 2808, and NGC 6266, respectively. The spatial distribution of the extratidal stars belonging to NGC 6397 appears S-like, extending along the curved leading and trailing arms. NGC 2808 has an overdensity of stars in the trailing part of the cluster and NGC 6266 seems to have overdensities of extratidal stars in its eastern and northern sides. Proper motions and color-magnitude diagrams can be used to identify extratidal candidate stars around GCs. Nonetheless, depending on how different the kinematics and stellar populations of a cluster are compared to the Milky Way field, the fraction of contamination can be larger. All three clusters are found to have extratidal stars outside their tidal radii. For NGC 6397 and NGC 2808, these stars may be the result of a combined effect of the disc shocks and tidal disruptions. For NGC 6266, the distribution of extratidal stars is symmetrical around it, most likely indicating that the cluster has an extended stellar envelope.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/611/A93
- Title:
- NGC3115 & NGC1399 VEGAS-SSS globular clusters
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/611/A93
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We analyze the globular cluster (GC) systems in two very different galaxies, NGC 3115 and NGC 1399. With the papers of this series, we aim at highlighting common and different properties in the GC systems in galaxies covering a wide range of parameter space. We compare the GCs in NGC 3115 and NGC 1399 as derived from the analysis of one square degree u-, g-, and i-band images taken with the VST telescope as part of the VST early-type galaxy survey (VEGAS) and Fornax deep survey (FDS). We selected GC candidates using as reference the morpho-photometric and color properties of confirmed GCs. The surface density maps of GCs in NGC 3115 reveal a morphology similar to the light profile of field stars; the same is true when blue and red GCs are taken separately. The GC maps for NGC 1399 are richer in structure and confirm the existence of an intra-cluster GC component. We confirm the presence of a spatial offset in the NGC 1399 GC centroid and find that the centroid of the GCs for NGC 3115 coincides well with the galaxy center. Both GC systems show unambiguous color bimodality in (g-i) and (u-i); the color-color relations of the two GC systems are slightly different with NGC 3115 appearing more linear than NGC 1399. The azimuthal average of the radial density profiles in both galaxies reveals a larger spatial extent for the total GCs population with respect to the galaxy surface brightness profile. For both galaxies, the red GCs have radial density profiles compatible with the galaxy light profile, while the radial profiles for blue GCs are shallower. As for the specific frequency of GCs, SN, we find it is a factor of two higher in NGC 1399 than for NGC 3115; this is mainly the result of extra blue GCs. By inspecting the radial behavior of the specific frequency, S_N_(<r), for the total, blue, and red GCs, we find notable similarities between the trends for red GCs in the two targets. In spite of extremely different host environments, the red GCs in both cases appear closely linked to the light distribution of field stars. Blue GCs extend to larger galactocentric scales than red GCs, marking a significant difference between the two galaxies: the blue/red GCs and field stellar components of NGC 3115 appear well thermalized with each other and the blue GCs in NGC 1399 appear to fade into an unrelaxed intra-cluster GC population.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/446/3130
- Title:
- NGC5694 radial velocities and metallicities
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/446/3130
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present a study of the kinematics of the remote globular cluster NGC 5694 based on GIRAFFE@VLT medium-resolution spectra. A sample of 165 individual stars selected to lie on the red giant branch in the cluster colour-magnitude diagram was considered. Using radial velocity and metallicity from Calcium triplet, we were able to select 83 bona fide cluster members. The addition of six previously known members leads to a total sample of 89 cluster giants with typical uncertainties <=1.0km/s in their radial velocity estimates. The sample covers a wide range of projected distances from the cluster centre, from ~0.2arcmin to 6.5arcmin =~23 half-light radii (r_h_). We find only very weak rotation, as typical of metal-poor globular clusters. The velocity dispersion gently declines from a central value of {sigma}=6.1km/s to {sigma}=~2.5km/s at ~2arcmin=~7.1r_h_, then it remains flat out to the next (and last) measured point of the dispersion profile, at ~4arcmin =~14.0r_h_, at odds with the predictions of isotropic King models. We show that both isotropic single-mass non-collisional models and multimass anisotropic models can reproduce the observed surface brightness and velocity dispersion profiles.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/527/A148
- Title:
- NGC6397 red giants chemical composition
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/527/A148
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The chemical compositions of globular clusters provide important information on the star formation that occurred at very early times in the Galaxy. In particular the abundance patterns of elements with atomic number z<=13 may shed light on the properties of stars that early on enriched parts of the star-forming gas with the rest-products of hydrogen-burning at high temperatures. We analyse and discuss the chemical compositions of a large number of elements in 21 red giant branch stars in the metal-poor globular cluster NGC6397. We compare the derived abundance patterns with theoretical predictions in the framework of the "wind of fast rotating massive star"-scenario. High-resolution spectra were obtained with the FLAMES/UVES spectrograph on the VLT. We determined non-LTE abundances of Na, and LTE abundances for the remaining 21 elements, including O (from the [OI] line at 630nm), Mg, Al, alpha, iron-peak, and neutron-capture elements, many of which had not been previously analysed for this cluster. We also considered the influence of possible He enrichment in the analysis of stellar spectra. We find that the Na abundances of evolved, as well as unevolved, stars in NGC6397 show a distinct bimodality, which is indicative of two stellar populations: one primordial stellar generation of composition similar to field stars, and a second generation that is polluted with material processed during hydrogen-burning, i.e., enriched in Na and Al and depleted in O and Mg. The red giant branch exhibits a similar bimodal distribution in the Stroemgren colour index c_y_=c_1_-(b-y), implying that there are also large differences in the N abundance. The two populations have the same composition for all analysed elements heavier than Al, within the measurement uncertainty of the analysis, with the possible exception of [Y/Fe]. Using two stars with almost identical stellar parameters, one from each generation, we estimate the difference in He content, Delta-Y=0.01+/-0.06, given the assumption that the mass fraction of iron is the same for the stars. NGC6397 hosts two stellar populations that have different chemical compositions of N, O, Na, Mg, and probably Al. The cluster is dominated (75%) by the second generation. We show that massive stars of the first generation can be held responsible for the abundance patterns observed in the second generation long-lived stars of NGC6397. We estimate that the initial mass of this globular cluster is at least ten times higher than its present-day value.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/604/A35
- Title:
- NGC104 RGB Na, Mg, and K abundances
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/604/A35
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We study the abundances of Na, Mg, and K in the atmospheres of 32 red giant branch (RGB) stars in the Galactic globular cluster (GGC) 47 Tuc, with the goal to investigate the possible existence of Na-K and Mg-K correlations/anti-correlations, similar to those that were recently discovered in two other GGCs, NGC 2419 and 2808. The abundances of K, Na, and Mg were determined using high-resolution 2df spectra obtained with the Anglo-Australian Telescope (AAT). The 1D NLTE abundance estimates were obtained using 1D hydrostatic ATLAS9 model atmospheres and spectral line profiles synthesized with the MULTI package. We also used 3D hydrodynamical CO5BOLD and 1D hydrostatic LHD model atmospheres to compute 3D-1D LTE abundance corrections, Delta 3D-1D LTE, for the spectral lines of Na, Mg, and K used in our study. These abundance corrections were used to understand the role of convection in the formation of spectral lines, as well as to estimate the differences in the abundances obtained with the 3D hydrodynamical and 1D hydrostatic model atmospheres. The average element-to-iron abundance ratios and their RMS variations due to star-to-star abundance spreads determined in our sample of RGB stars were <[Na/Fe]>(1D-NLTE)=0.42+/-0.13, <[Mg/Fe]>(1D-NLTE)=0.41+/-0.11, and <[K/Fe]>(1D-NLTE)=0.05+/-0.14. We found no statistically significant relations between the abundances of the three elements studied here. Also, there were no abundance trends with the distance from the cluster center, nor any statistically significant relations between the abundance/abundance ratios and absolute radial velocities of individual stars. All these facts suggest the similarity of K abundance in stars that belong to different generations in 47 Tuc which, in turn, may hint that evolution of K in this particular cluster was unrelated to the nucleosynthesis of Na and/or Mg.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/559/A101
- Title:
- NGC6656 spectroscopy of 71 blue HB stars
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/559/A101
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Recent investigations revealed very peculiar properties of blue horizontal branch (HB) stars in {omega} Centauri, which show anomalously low surface gravity and mass compared to other clusters and to theoretical models. {omega} Centauri, however, is a very unusual object, hosting a complex mix of multiple stellar populations with different metallicity and chemical abundances. We measured the fundamental parameters (temperature, gravity, and surface helium abundance) of a sample of 71 blue HB stars in M 22, with the aim of clarifying if the peculiar results found in {omega} Cen are unique to this cluster. M 22 also hosts multiple sub-populations of stars with a spread in metallicity, analogous to {omega} Cen.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/588/A148
- Title:
- NGC 6397 stars MUSE spectra
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/588/A148
- Date:
- 23 Mar 2022 16:26:54
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We demonstrate the high multiplex advantage of crowded field 3D spectroscopy with the new integral field spectrograph MUSE by means of a spectroscopic analysis of more than 12000 individual stars in the globular cluster NGC 6397. The stars are deblended with a point spread function fitting technique, using a photometric reference catalogue from HST as prior, including relative positions and brightnesses. This catalogue is also used for a first analysis of the extracted spectra, followed by an automatic in-depth analysis via a full-spectrum fitting method based on a large grid of PHOENIX spectra. We analysed the largest sample so far available for a single globular cluster of 18 932 spectra from 12 307 stars in NGC 6397. We derived a mean radial velocity of v_rad_=17.84+/-0.07km/s and a mean metallicity of [Fe/H]=-2.120+/-0.002, with the latter seemingly varying with temperature for stars on the red giant branch (RGB). We determine Teff and [Fe/H] from the spectra, and log g from HST photometry. This is the first very comprehensive Hertzsprung-Russell diagram (HRD) for a globular cluster based on the analysis of several thousands of stellar spectra, ranging from the main sequence to the tip of the RGB. Furthermore, two interesting objects were identified; one is a post-AGB star and the other is a possible millisecond-pulsar companion.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/631/A14
- Title:
- NGC 2808 stellar population spectra
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/631/A14
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Galactic globular clusters (GCs) are now known to host multiple populations displaying particular abundance variations. The different populations within a GC can be well distinguished following their position in the pseudo two-colors diagrams, also referred to as "chromosome maps". These maps are constructed using optical and near-UV photometry available from the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) UV survey of GCs. However, the chemical tagging of the various populations in the chromosome maps is hampered by the fact that HST photometry and elemental abundances are both available only for a limited number of stars. The spectra collected as part of the MUSE survey of globular clusters provide a spectroscopic counterpart to the HST photometric catalogs covering the central regions of GCs. In this paper, we use the MUSE spectra of 1155 red giant branch (RGB) stars in NGC 2808 to characterize the abundance variations seen in the multiple populations of this cluster. We use the chromosome map of NGC 2808 to divide the RGB stars into their respective populations. We then combine the spectra of all stars belonging to a given population, resulting in one high signal-to-noise ratio spectrum representative of each population. Variations in the spectral lines of O, Na, Mg, and Al are clearly detected among four of the populations. In order to quantify these variations, we measured equivalent width differences and created synthetic populations spectra that were used to determine abundance variations with respect to the primordial population of the cluster. Our results are in good agreement with the values expected from previous studies based on high-resolution spectroscopy. We do not see any significant variations in the spectral lines of Ca, K, and Ba. We also do not detect abundance variations among the stars belonging to the primordial population of NGC 2808.
