- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/681/1505
- Title:
- Abundances of red giants in {omega} Cen
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/681/1505
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present radial velocities and Fe and Al abundances for 180 red giant branch (RGB) stars in the Galactic globular cluster Omega Centauri ({omega} Cen). The majority of our data lie in the range 11.0<V<13.5, which covers the RGB from about 1mag above the horizontal branch to the RGB tip. The selection procedures are biased toward preferentially observing the more metal-poor and luminous stars of {omega} Cen. Abundances were determined using equivalent width measurements and spectrum synthesis analyses of moderate resolution spectra (R~13000) obtained with the Blanco 4m telescope and Hydra multifiber spectrograph. Our results are in agreement with previous studies as we find at least four different metallicity populations with [Fe/H]=-1.75, -1.45, -1.05, and -0.75, with a full range of -2.20<~[Fe/H]<~-0.70. Results seem to fit in the adopted scheme that star formation occurred in {omega} Cen over >1Gyr.
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- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/698/2048
- Title:
- Abundances of red giants in {omega} Cen
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/698/2048
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- 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 ({omega} Cen). Our observations lie in the range 12.0<V<13.5 and focus on the intermediate and metal-rich RGBs. Abundances were determined using equivalent width measurements and spectrum synthesis analyses of moderate resolution (R~18000) spectra obtained with the Blanco 4m telescope and Hydra multifiber spectrograph. Combining these data with previous work, we find that there are at least four peaks in the metallicity distribution function at [Fe/H]=-1.75, -1.45, -1.05, and -0.75, which correspond to about 55%, 30%, 10%, and 5% of our sample, respectively. We conclude that the metal-rich population must be at least 1-2Gyr younger than the metal-poor stars, owing to the long timescales needed for strong s-process enrichment and the development of a large contingent of mass transfer binaries.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/431/3338
- Title:
- Abundances of red giants in open clusters
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/431/3338
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We have analysed high-resolution echelle spectra of red giant members for seven open clusters in the Galactic anticentre direction to explore their chemical compositions. Cluster membership has been confirmed by radial velocity. The spread in temperatures and gravities being very small among the red giants, nearly the same stellar lines were employed for all stars thereby reducing the abundance errors: the errors of the average abundance for a cluster were generally in the 0.02-0.05dex range. Our present sample covers Galactocentric distances of 8.3-11.3kpc and an age range of 0.2-4.3Gyr. A careful comparison of our results for the cluster NGC 2682 (M67) to other high-resolution abundance studies in the literature shows general good agreement for almost all elements in common.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/765/157
- Title:
- Abundances of red giants in the Galactic bulge
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/765/157
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present radial velocities and chemical abundance ratios of [Fe/H], [O/Fe], [Si/Fe], and [Ca/Fe] for 264 red giant branch stars in three Galactic bulge off-axis fields located near (l,b)=(-5.5,-7), (-4,-9), and (+8.5,+9). The results are based on equivalent width and spectrum synthesis analyses of moderate resolution (R{approx}18000), high signal-to-noise ratio (S/N~75-300pixel^-1^) spectra obtained with the Hydra spectrographs on the Blanco 4m and WIYN 3.5m telescopes. The targets were selected from the blue side of the giant branch to avoid cool stars that would be strongly affected by CN and TiO; however, a comparison of the color-metallicity distribution in literature samples suggests that our selection of bluer targets should not present a significant bias against metal-rich stars.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/780/94
- Title:
- Abundances of red giants in 47 Tuc
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/780/94
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- 47 Tuc is an ideal target to study chemical evolution and globular cluster (GC) formation in massive more metal-rich GCs, as it is the closest massive GC. We present chemical abundances for O, Na, Al, Si, Ca, Ti, Fe, Ni, La, and Eu in 164 red giant branch stars in the massive GC 47 Tuc using spectra obtained with both the Hydra multifiber spectrograph at the Blanco 4m telescope and the FLAMES multiobject spectrograph at the Very Large Telescope. We find an average [Fe/H]=-0.79+/-0.09dex, consistent with literature values, as well as overabundances of alpha-elements ([{alpha}/Fe]~0.3dex). The n-capture process elements indicate that 47 Tuc is r process-dominated ([Eu/La]=+0.24), and the light elements O, Na, and Al exhibit star-to-star variations. The Na-O anticorrelation, a signature typically seen in Galactic GCs, is present in 47 Tuc, and extends to include a small number of stars with [O/Fe]~-0.5. Additionally, the [O/Na] ratios of our sample reveal that the cluster stars can be separated into three distinct populations. A Kolmogorov-Smirnov test demonstrates that the O-poor/Na-rich stars are more centrally concentrated than the O-rich/Na-poor stars. The observed number and radial distribution of 47 Tuc's stellar populations, as distinguished by their light element composition, agrees closely with the results obtained from photometric data. We do not find evidence supporting a strong Na-Al correlation in 47 Tuc, which is consistent with current models of asymptotic giant branch nucleosynthesis yields.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/600/A118
- Title:
- Abundances of red giant stars in NGC6093 (M80)
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/600/A118
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Homogeneous abundances of light elements, alpha-elements, Fe-group elements and neutron-capture elements from high-resolution FLAMES spectra are presented for stars in the globular cluster NGC 5634, associated to the Sagittarius dwarf spheroidal galaxy. In particular we present detailed chemical abundance of 22 species for the seven stars observed with UVES-FLAMES, and the abundance of six elements for stars observed with GIRAFFE. We derived a metallicity [Fe/H]=-1.867+/-0.019+/-0.065dex (+/-statistical+/-systematic error) with sigma=0.050dex (7 stars). We found the normal anti-correlations between light elements (Na and O, Mg and Al), signature of multiple populations typical of massive and old GCs. We confirm the associations of NGC 5634 to the Sgr dSph, from which the cluster was lost a few Gyr ago, on the basis of its velocity and position, and the abundance ratios of {alpha} and neutron capture elements.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/578/A116
- Title:
- Abundances of red giant stars in NGC6093 (M80)
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/578/A116
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Homogeneous abundances of light elements, alpha-elements, and Fe-group elements from high-resolution FLAMES spectra are presented for 82 red giant stars in NGC 6093 (M 80), a dense, metal-poor globular cluster (GC). M 80 shows star to star variations in proton-capture elements, and the extension of the Na-O anticorrelation perfectly fit the relations with (i) total cluster mass, (ii) horizontal branch morphology, and (iii) cluster concentration previously found by our group. The chemistry of multiple stellar populations in M 80 does not look extreme. The cluster is also a typical representative of halo globular clusters for what concerns the pattern of alpha-capture and Fe-group elements. However we found that a significant contribution from the s-process is required to account for the distribution of neutron-capture elements.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/767/134
- Title:
- Abundances of red giant stars in UFD galaxies
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/767/134
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The Milky Way ultra-faint dwarf (UFD) galaxies contain some of the oldest, most metal-poor stars in the universe. We present [Mg/Fe], [Si/Fe], [Ca/Fe], [Ti/Fe], and mean [{alpha}/Fe] abundance ratios for 61 individual red giant branch stars across eight UFDs. This is the largest sample of alpha abundances published to date in galaxies with absolute magnitudes M_V_>-8, including the first measurements for Segue 1, Canes Venatici II, Ursa Major I, and Leo T. Abundances were determined via medium-resolution Keck/DEIMOS spectroscopy and spectral synthesis. The sample spans the metallicity range -3.4<[Fe/H]<-1.1. With the possible exception of Segue 1 and Ursa Major II, the individual UFDs show on average lower [{alpha}/Fe] at higher metallicities, consistent with enrichment from Type Ia supernovae. Thus, even the faintest galaxies have undergone at least a limited level of chemical self-enrichment. Together with recent photometric studies, this suggests that star formation in the UFDs was not a single burst, but instead lasted at least as much as the minimum time delay of the onset of Type Ia supernovae (~100Myr) and less than ~2Gyr. We further show that the combined population of UFDs has an [{alpha}/Fe] abundance pattern that is inconsistent with a flat, Galactic halo-like alpha abundance trend, and is also qualitatively different from that of the more luminous CVn I dSph, which does show a hint of a plateau at very low [Fe/H].
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/157/154
- Title:
- Abundances of RGs in Galactic globular clusters
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/157/154
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Among stars in Galactic globular clusters the carbon abundance tends to decrease with increasing luminosity on the upper red giant branch, particularly within the lowest metallicity clusters. While such a phenomena is not predicted by canonical models of stellar interiors and evolution, it is widely held to be the result of some extra mixing operating during red giant branch ascent which transports material exposed to the CN(O)-cycle across the radiative zone in the stellar interior and into the base of the convective envelope, whereupon it is brought rapidly to the stellar surface. Here we present measurements of [C/Fe] abundances among 67 red giants in 19 globular clusters within the Milky Way. Building on the work of Martell et al. (2008AJ....136.2522M), we have concentrated on giants with absolute magnitudes of M_V_~-1.5 within clusters encompassing a range of metallicity (-2.4<[Fe/H]<-0.3). The Kitt Peak National Observatory (KPNO) 4 m and Southern Astrophysical Research (SOAR) 4.1 m telescopes were used to obtain spectra covering the {lambda}4300 CH and {lambda}3883 CN bands. The CH absorption features in these spectra have been analyzed via synthetic spectra in order to obtain [C/Fe] abundances. These abundances and the luminosities of the observed stars were used to infer the rate at which C abundances change with time during upper red giant branch evolution (i.e., the mixing efficiency). By establishing rates over a range of metallicity, the dependence of deep mixing on metallicity is explored. We find that the inferred carbon depletion rate decreases as a function of metallicity, although our results are dependent on the initial [C/Fe] composition assumed for each star.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/149/59
- Title:
- Abundances of {rho} Pup
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/149/59
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We investigated the chemical composition of {rho} Pup using high-resolution spectral observations taken from the Very Large Telescope and the IUE archives and also spectra obtained at the 1.8m telescope of the Bohyunsan observatory in Korea. The abundances of 56 chemical elements and the upper limits of Li and Be abundances were determined. The abundance pattern of {rho} Pup was found to be similar to that of Am-type stars. The possibility of the influence of the accretion of interstellar gas and dust on the abundance patterns of B--F-type stars is discussed. The plots of the relative abundances of chemical elements in the atmospheres of {rho} Pup and {delta} Sct versus the second ionization potentials of these elements show the correlations. The discontinuities at 13.6 and 24.6eV--the ionization potentials of hydrogen and helium, respectively, are also exhibited in these plots. These discontinuities can be explained by interaction of the atoms of interstellar gas, mainly hydrogen and helium atoms, with the atoms of stellar photospheres (so-called charge-exchange reactions). Note that only the jumps near 13.6 and 24.6eV were pointed out in previous investigations of relative abundances versus the second ionization potentials for Am-type stars. The dependencies of the relative abundances of chemical elements on the second ionization potentials of these elements were investigated using the published abundance patterns of B-F-type stars. The correlations of relative and absolute abundances of chemical elements, second ionization potentials, and projected rotational velocities are clearly detected for stars with effective temperatures between 7000 and 12000K. If the correlation of relative abundances and second ionization potentials can be explained by the accretion of interstellar gas on the stellar surfaces, the investigation of these correlations can provide valuable information on the density and velocities of interstellar gas in different regions of the Galaxy and also on the influence of this phenomenon on stellar evolution. The dependencies of the relative abundances of chemical elements on the condensation temperatures of these elements were also found in the atmospheres of {rho} Pup, {delta} Sct, and other B--F-type stars. Ten possible {lambda} Boo-type stars were detected. The effective temperatures of these objects are between 10900 and 14000K.
