HST WFC3 photometry of NGC 2419 Virtual Observatory Resource

Authors
  1. Larsen S.S.
  2. Baumgardt H.
  3. Bastian N
  4. Hernandez S.
  5. Brodie J.P.
  6. Published by
    CDS
Abstract

We present new deep imaging of the central regions of the remote globular cluster NGC 2419, obtained with the F343N and F336W filters of the Wide Field Camera 3 on board the Hubble Space Telescope. The new data are combined with archival imaging to constrain nitrogen and helium abundance variations within the cluster. We find a clearly bimodal distribution of the nitrogen-sensitive F336W-F343N colours of red giants, from which we estimate that about 55% of the giants belong to a population with about normal (field-like) nitrogen abundances (P1), while the remaining 45% belong to a nitrogen-rich population (P2). On average, the P2 stars are more He-rich than the P1 stars, with an estimated mean difference of {Delta}Y~=0.05, but the P2 stars exhibit a significant spread in He content and some may reach {Delta}Y~=0.13. A smaller He spread may also be present for the P1 stars. Additionally, stars with spectroscopically determined low Mg abundances ([Mg/Fe]<0) are generally associated with P2. We find the P2 stars to be slightly more centrally concentrated in NGC 2419 with a projected half-number radius of about 10% less than for the P1 stars, but the difference is not highly significant (p~=0.05). Using published radial velocities, we find evidence of rotation for the P1 stars, whereas the results are inconclusive for the P2 stars, which are consistent with no rotation as well as the same average rotation found for the P1 stars. Because of the long relaxation time scale of NGC 2419, the radial trends and kinematic properties of the populations are expected to be relatively unaffected by dynamical evolution. Hence, they provide constraints on formation scenarios for multiple populations, which must account not only for the presence of He spreads within sub-populations identified via CNO variations, but also for the relatively modest differences in the spatial distributions and kinematics of the populations.

Keywords
  1. globular-star-clusters
  2. hst-photometry
  3. infrared-photometry
  4. visible-astronomy
  5. Wide-band photometry
  6. metallicity
Bibliographic source Bibcode
2019A&A...624A..25L
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ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/624/A25
Document Object Identifer DOI
doi:10.26093/cds/vizier.36240025

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History

2019-04-02T08:44:19Z
Resource record created
2019-04-02T08:44:19Z
Created
2019-04-08T14:37:16Z
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