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Abundances of RGB stars in NGC 6752

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Författare

Summary, in English

Abundances of O, Fe, Al, Mg, Na and Li determined from high-resolutionand high signal-to-noise spectra of 21 red giant branch (RGB) stars inthe globular cluster NGC 6752 are presented. We demonstrate that theStrömgren c<SUB>1</SUB> index correlates extremely well with themeasured NH, CH and CN indices and that variations in c<SUB>1</SUB> aredue to differences in UV NH band strengths. As shown by Grundahl et al.(cite{grundahl02}), the RGB stars in all 20 globular clusters surveyedpossess large star-to-star variations in their c<SUB>1</SUB> index,which we interpret as significant inhomogeneities in N abundances. Thewell known relations among O and Na and Mg and Al as well as with CN,CH, and NH are also present in these stars, some of which are fainterthan the RGB bump. We find that the Li (6708 Å) equivalent widthbecomes too small to be measured as the luminosity of the stars increaseabove the luminosity of the RGB bump. Taken together, these data enforcethe results of Gratton et al. (cite{gratton01}) for turnoff andsub-giant branch stars, and suggest that in this cluster the abundancecorrelations observed among the brighter giants are in place prior toappreciable RGB ascent and likely due to previous generation(s) ofstars, rather than due to mixing in the observed stars. Based onobservations obtained with the ESO Very Large Telescope UVESspectrograph for programme 65.L-0165(A). Based on observations obtainedwith the Danish 1.5 m telescope at the European Southern Observatory, LaSilla, Chile.

Publiceringsår

2002

Språk

Engelska

Sidor

14-17

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

Astronomy & Astrophysics

Volym

385

Dokumenttyp

Artikel i tidskrift

Förlag

EDP Sciences

Ämne

  • Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology

Nyckelord

  • GLOBULAR CLUSTERS
  • INDIVIDUAL: NGC 6752
  • STARS: ABUNDANCES
  • MIXING

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISSN: 0004-6361