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Sofia Feltzing

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First evidence of multiple populations along the AGB from Strömgren photometry

Författare

  • Pieter Gruyters
  • Luca Casagrande
  • Antonino P. Milone
  • Simon T. Hodgkin
  • Aldo Serenelli
  • Sofia Feltzing

Summary, in English

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 Strömgrem 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 Strömgren photometry is also very efficient at identifying multiple populations along the AGB, and demonstrate that the AGB of M 3, M 92, NGC 362, NGC 1851, and NGC 6752 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 NGC 6752 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.

Avdelning/ar

  • Astronomi - Har omorganiserats

Publiceringsår

2017-07-01

Språk

Engelska

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Volym

603

Dokumenttyp

Artikel i tidskrift

Förlag

EDP Sciences

Ämne

  • Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology

Nyckelord

  • Globular clusters: General
  • Hertzsprung-Russell and C-M diagrams
  • Stars: Abundances
  • Techniques: Photometric

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISSN: 0004-6361