Halo red giants from the SEGUE survey Virtual Observatory Resource

Authors
  1. Martell S.L.
  2. Smolinski J.P.
  3. Beers T.C.
  4. Grebel E.K.
  5. Published by
    CDS
Abstract

We present a spectroscopic search for halo field stars that originally formed in globular clusters. Using moderate-resolution SDSS-III/SEGUE-2 spectra of 561 red giants with typical halo metallicities (-1.8<=[Fe/H]<=-1.0), we identify 16 stars, 3% of the sample, with CN and CH bandstrength behavior indicating depleted carbon and enhanced nitrogen abundances relative to the rest of the data set. Since globular clusters are the only environment known in which stars form with this pattern of atypical light-element abundances, we claim that these stars are second-generation globular cluster stars that have been lost to the halo field via normal cluster mass-loss processes.

Keywords
  1. globular-star-clusters
  2. halo-stars
  3. giant-stars
  4. chemical-abundances
  5. visible-astronomy
  6. sloan-photometry
Bibliographic source Bibcode
2011A&A...534A.136M
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ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/534/A136
Document Object Identifer DOI
doi:10.26093/cds/vizier.35340136

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History

2011-10-20T08:34:52Z
Resource record created
2011-10-20T08:34:52Z
Created
2013-07-23T12:24:26Z
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