Globular cluster intrinsic iron abundance spreads Virtual Observatory Resource

Authors
  1. Bailin J.
  2. Published by
    CDS
Abstract

We present an up-to-date catalog of intrinsic iron abundance spreads in the 55 Milky Way globular clusters (GCs) for which sufficiently precise spectroscopic measurements are available. Our method combines multiple data sets when possible to improve the statistics, taking into account the fact that different methods and instruments can lead to systematically offset metallicities. Only high spectral resolution (R>14000) studies that measure the equivalent widths of individual iron lines are found to have uncertainties on the metallicities of the individual stars that can be calibrated sufficiently well for the intrinsic dispersion to be separated cleanly from a random measurement error. The median intrinsic iron spread is found to be 0.045dex, which is small but unambiguously measured to be nonzero in most cases. There is large variation between clusters, but more luminous GCs, above 10^5^L_{sun}_, have increasingly large iron spreads on average; no trend between the iron spread and metallicity is found.

Keywords
  1. globular-star-clusters
  2. metallicity
  3. astronomical-reference-materials
Bibliographic source Bibcode
2019ApJS..245....5B
See also HTML
https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/cat/J/ApJS/245/5
IVOA Identifier IVOID
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJS/245/5
Document Object Identifer DOI
doi:10.26093/cds/vizier.22450005

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History

2020-04-29T09:55:43Z
Resource record created
2020-04-29T09:55:43Z
Created
2021-07-07T16:55:36Z
Updated

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