4 globular clusters RGB and AGB stars Virtual Observatory Resource

Authors
  1. Gruyters P.
  2. Casagrande L.
  3. Milone A.P.
  4. Hodgkin S.T.
  5. Serenelli A.,Feltzing S.
  6. Published by
    CDS
Abstract

Spectroscopic studies have demonstrated that nearly all Galactic globular clusters (GCs) harbour multiple stellar populations with different chemical compositions. Moreover, colour-magnitude diagrams based exclusively on Stroemgrem photometry have allowed us to identify and characterise multiple populations along the RGB of a large number of clusters. In this paper we show for the first time that Stroemgren photometry is also very efficient at identifying multiple populations along the AGB, and demonstrate that the AGB of M3, M92, NGC362, NGC1851, and NGC6752 are not consistent with a single stellar population. We also provide a catalogue of RGB and AGB stars photometrically identified in these clusters for further spectroscopic follow-up studies. We combined photometry and elemental abundances from the literature for RGB and AGB stars in NGC6752 where the presence of multiple populations along the AGB has been widely debated. We find that, while the MS, SGB, and RGB host three stellar populations with different helium and light element abundances, only two populations of AGB stars are present in the cluster. These results are consistent with standard evolutionary theory.

Keywords
  1. astrometry
  2. globular-star-clusters
  3. astronomical-models
  4. stellar-atmospheres
  5. visible-astronomy
  6. medium-band-photometry
Bibliographic source Bibcode
2017A&A...603A..37G
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ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/603/A37
Document Object Identifer DOI
doi:10.26093/cds/vizier.36030037

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History

2017-07-04T08:29:39Z
Resource record created
2017-07-04T08:29:39Z
Created
2017-07-18T14:41:25Z
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