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LOW-RESOLUTION SPECTROSCOPIC STUDIES OF GLOBULAR CLUSTERS WITH MULTIPLE POPULATIONS KCI 등재

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천문학논총 (Publications of the Korean Astronomical Society)
한국천문학회 (Korean Astronomical Society)
초록

Recent narrow-band Ca photometry discovered two distinct red giant branch (RGB) populations in some massive globular clusters (GCs) including M22, NGC 1851, and NGC 288. In order to investigate the di erences in light/heavy elements abundances between the two subpopulations, we have performed low-resolution spectroscopy for stars on the two RGBs in these GCs. We find a significant diff erence (more than 4) in calcium abundance from the spectroscopic HK0 index for both M22 and NGC 1851. We also find a more than 8 difference in CN band strength between the Ca-strong and Ca-weak subpopulations. For NGC 288, however, we detect the presence of a large difference only in the CN strength. The calcium abundances of the two subpopulations in this GC are identical within errors. We also find interesting differences in CN-CH relations among these GCs. While CN and CH indices are correlated in M22, they show an anti-correlation in NGC 288. However, NGC 1851 shows no di erence in CH between two groups of stars having different CN strengths. The CN bimodality in these GCs could be explained by pollution from intermediate-mass asymptotic giant branch stars and/or fast-rotating massive stars. For the presence or absence of calcium bimodality and the differences in CN-CH relations, we suggest these would be best explained by how strongly type II supernovae enrichment has contributed to the chemical evolutions of these GCs.

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ABSTRACT
1. INTRODUCTION
2. OBSERVATIONS
3. RESULTS
4. DISCUSSION
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저자
  • Dongwook Lim(Center for Galaxy Evolution Research and Department of Astronomy, Yonsei University)
  • Sang-Il Han(Center for Galaxy Evolution Research and Department of Astronomy, Yonsei University)
  • Dong-Goo Roh(Center for Galaxy Evolution Research and Department of Astronomy, Yonsei University/Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute)
  • Young-Wook Lee(Center for Galaxy Evolution Research and Department of Astronomy, Yonsei University)