Potassium abundance in 3 globular clusters Virtual Observatory Resource

Authors
  1. Mucciarelli A.
  2. Merle T.
  3. Bellazzini M.
  4. Published by
    CDS
Abstract

We derived Potassium abundances in red giant branch stars in the Galactic globular clusters NGC 104 (144 stars), NGC 6752 (134 stars) and NGC 6809 (151 stars) using high-resolution spectra collected with FLAMES at the ESO - Very Large Telescope. In the considered samples we do not find significant intrinsic spreads in [K/Fe] (confirming the previous findings by Carretta et al.), at variance with the cases of the massive clusters NGC 2419 and NGC 2808. Additionally, marginally significant [K/Fe]-[O/Fe] anti-correlations are found in NGC 104 and NGC 6809, and [K/Fe]-[Na/Fe] correlations are found in NGC 104 and NGC 6752. No evidence of [K/Fe]-[Mg/Fe] anti-correlation are found. The results of our analysis are consistent with a scenario in which the process leading to the multi-populations in globular clusters implies also enrichment in the K abundance, the amplitude of the associated [K/Fe] enhancement becoming measurable only in stars showing the most extreme effects of O and Mg depletion. Stars enhanced in [K/Fe] have been found so far only in clusters harbouring some Mg-poor stars, while the other globulars, without a Mg-poor sub-population, show small or null [K/Fe] spreads.

Keywords
  1. globular-star-clusters
  2. population-ii-stars
  3. chemical-abundances
Bibliographic source Bibcode
2017A&A...600A.104M
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ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/600/A104
Document Object Identifer DOI
doi:10.26093/cds/vizier.36000104

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History

2017-04-06T08:24:03Z
Resource record created
2017-04-06T08:24:03Z
Created
2018-01-02T13:43:18Z
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