Reduced CRIRES spectra around S multiplet 3 Virtual Observatory Resource

Authors
  1. Kacharov N.
  2. Koch A.
  3. Caffau E.
  4. Sbordone L.
  5. Published by
    CDS
Abstract

Sulphur is an important, volatile alpha element but its role in the Galactic chemical evolution is still uncertain. We derive the S abundances in RGB stars in three Galactic globular clusters (GC) that cover a wide metallicity range (-2.3<[Fe/H]<-1.2): M4, M22, and M30. The halo field stars show a large scatter in the [S/Fe] ratio in this metallicity span, which is inconsistent with canonical chemical evolution models. To date, very few measurements of [S/Fe] exist for stars in GCs, which are good tracers of the chemical enrichment of their environment. However, some light and alpha elements show star-to-star variations within individual GCs and it is yet unclear whether sulphur also varies between GC stars. We used the the infrared spectrograph CRIRES to obtain high-resolution (R~50000), high signal-to-noise (SNR~200 per px) spectra in the region of the SI multiplet 3 at 1045nm for 15 GC stars selected from the literature (6 stars in M4, 6 stars in M22 and 3 stars in M30). Multiplet 3 is better suited for S abundance derivation than the more commonly used lines of multiplet 1 at 920nm, since its lines are not blended by telluric absorption or other stellar features at low metallicity. We used spectral synthesis to derive the [S/Fe] ratio of the stars assuming local thermodynamic equilibrium (LTE). We find mean [S/Fe]=0.58+/-0.01+/-0.20dex (statistical and systematic error) for M4, [S/Fe]=0.57+/-0.01+/-0.19dex for M22, and [S/Fe]=0.55+/-0.02+/-0.16dex for M30. The negative NLTE corrections are estimated to be in the order of the systematic uncertainties. With the tentative exception of two stars with measured high S abundances, we conclude that sulphur behaves like a typical alpha element in the studied Galactic GCs, showing enhanced abundances with respect to the solar value at metallicities below [Fe/H]=-1.0dex without a considerable spread.

Keywords
  1. globular-star-clusters
  2. milky-way-galaxy
  3. infrared-astronomy
  4. spectroscopy
  5. chemical-abundances
Bibliographic source Bibcode
2015A&A...577A..18K
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2015-04-24T07:20:38Z
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