The determination of carbon and oxygen abundances in very metal-poor globular cluster giant stars

1992 ◽  
Vol 104 ◽  
pp. 1127 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. A. Bell ◽  
M. M. Briley ◽  
John E. Norris
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1966 ◽  
Vol 25 ◽  
pp. 93-97
Author(s):  
Richard Woolley

It is now possible to determine proper motions of high-velocity objects in such a way as to obtain with some accuracy the velocity vector relevant to the Sun. If a potential field of the Galaxy is assumed, one can compute an actual orbit. A determination of the velocity of the globular clusterωCentauri has recently been completed at Greenwich, and it is found that the orbit is strongly retrograde in the Galaxy. Similar calculations may be made, though with less certainty, in the case of RR Lyrae variable stars.


2019 ◽  
Vol 627 ◽  
pp. A178 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. G. Fernández-Trincado ◽  
O. Zamora ◽  
Diogo Souto ◽  
R. E. Cohen ◽  
F. Dell’Agli ◽  
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We present an elemental abundance analysis of high-resolution spectra for five giant stars spatially located within the innermost regions of the bulge globular cluster NGC 6522 and derive Fe, Mg, Al, C, N, O, Si, and Ce abundances based on H-band spectra taken with the multi-object APOGEE-north spectrograph from the SDSS-IV Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment (APOGEE) survey. Of the five cluster candidates, two previously unremarked stars are confirmed to have second-generation (SG) abundance patterns, with the basic pattern of depletion in C and Mg simultaneous with enrichment in N and Al as seen in other SG globular cluster populations at similar metallicity. In agreement with the most recent optical studies, the NGC 6522 stars analyzed exhibit (when available) only mild overabundances of the s-process element Ce, contradicting the idea that NGC 6522 stars are formed from gas enriched by spinstars and indicating that other stellar sources such as massive AGB stars could be the primary polluters of intra-cluster medium. The peculiar abundance signatures of SG stars have been observed in our data, confirming the presence of multiple generations of stars in NGC 6522.


2015 ◽  
Vol 448 (3) ◽  
pp. 2749-2765 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Alves ◽  
L. Benamati ◽  
N. C. Santos ◽  
V. Zh. Adibekyan ◽  
S. G. Sousa ◽  
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2012 ◽  
Vol 8 (S289) ◽  
pp. 398-401
Author(s):  
Jun Ma

AbstractWe determined the age of the M31 globular cluster B379 using isochrones of the Padova stellar evolutionary models. At the same time, the cluster's metal abundance, its distance modulus, and reddening value were also obtained. The results obtained in this paper are consistent with previous determinations, including the age. Brown et al. constrained the age of B379 by comparing its color–magnitude diagram with isochrones of the 2006 VandenBerg models. Therefore, this paper confirms the consistency of the age scale of B379 between the Padova isochrones and the 2006 VandenBerg isochrones. The results of B379 obtained in this paper are: metallicity [M/H] = log(Z/Z⊙) = −0.325 dex, age τ = 11.0 ± 1.5 Gyr, reddening E(B − V) = 0.08 mag, and distance modulus (m − M)0 = 24.44 ± 0.10 mag. Using the metallicity, the reddening value and the distance modulus obtained in this paper, we constrained the age of B379 by comparing its multicolor photometry with theoretical stellar population synthesis models. The age of B379 obtained is 10.6−0.76+0.92 Gyr, which is in very good agreement with the determination from main-sequence photometry.


1982 ◽  
Vol 49 ◽  
pp. 207 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. F. Carbon ◽  
W. Romanishin ◽  
G. E. Langer ◽  
D. Butler ◽  
E. Kemper ◽  
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1998 ◽  
Vol 492 (2) ◽  
pp. 575-595 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert M. Cavallo ◽  
Allen V. Sweigart ◽  
Roger A. Bell

2014 ◽  
Vol 9 (S307) ◽  
pp. 165-170
Author(s):  
P. Eggenberger

AbstractAsteroseismic data obtained by theKeplerspacecraft have led to the recent detection and characterization of rotational frequency splittings of mixed modes in red-giant stars. This has opened the way to the determination of the core rotation rates for these stars, which is of prime importance to progress in our understanding of internal angular momentum transport. In this contribution, we discuss which constraints can be brought by these asteroseismic measurements on the modelling of angular momentum transport in stellar radiative zones.


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