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球状星团NGC 6656(M22)中氟的变化:内部富集时标的意义

Fluorine variations in the globular cluster NGC 6656 (M22): implications for internal enrichment timescales

Valentina D'Orazi, Sara Lucatello, Maria Lugaro, Raffaele G. Gratton, George Angelou, Angela Bragaglia, Eugenio Carretta, Alan Alves-Brito, Inese I. Ivans, Thom… 展开作者

Valentina D'Orazi, Sara Lucatello, Maria Lugaro, Raffaele G. Gratton, George Angelou, Angela Bragaglia, Eugenio Carretta, Alan Alves-Brito, Inese I. Ivans, Thomas Masseron, Alessio Mucciarelli

摘要:

观测到的球状星团恒星之间质子捕获元素的化学(反)相关性目前被认为是已经灭绝的前几代恒星自我富集的标志。这定义了多人口情景。由于氟也受到质子捕获的影响,因此确定其在球状星团中的丰度为这些前几代的性质提供了新的补充线索,并为化学富集时间尺度提供了强有力的观测约束。在本文中,我们提出了我们的近红外CRIRES光谱观测NGC 6656(M22)中的六个冷巨星的结果:主要目的是推导F的内容和它的内部变化,在这个特殊的集群,表现出显着的变化,在轻和重元素丰度。我们检测到F的变化在我们的样品超出了测量的不确定性,并发现F丰度正相关的O和Na相关,正如预期的多人口框架。此外,我们的观察揭示了两个不同的子组之间的F含量的增加,S-过程丰富和S-过程穷人,托管在M22。与理论模型的比较表明,质量在4到5 Msun之间的渐近巨星是观测到的化学模式的原因,证实了以前工作的证据:M22中两个子成分之间的年龄差异不超过几百万年。

英文摘要:

Observed chemical (anti)correlations in proton-capture elements among globular cluster stars are presently recognized as the signature of self-enrichment from now extinct, previous generations of stars. This defines the multiple population scenario. Since fluorine is also affected by proton captures, determining its abundance in globular clusters provides new and complementary clues regarding the nature of these previous generations, and supplies strong observational constraints to the chemical enrichment timescales. In this paper we present our results on near-infrared CRIRES spectroscopic observations of six cool giant stars in NGC 6656 (M22): the main objective is to derive the F content and its internal variation in this peculiar cluster, which exhibits significant changes in both light and heavy element abundances. We detected F variations across our sample beyond the measurement uncertainties and found that the F abundances are positively correlated with O and anticorrelated with Na, as expected according to the multiple population framework. Furthermore, our observations reveal an increase in the F content between the two different sub-groups, s-process rich and s-process poor, hosted within M22. The comparison with theoretical models suggests that asymptotic giant stars with masses between 4 and 5 Msun are responsible for the observed chemical pattern, confirming evidence from previous works: the difference in age between the two sub-components in M22 must be not larger than a few hundreds Myr.

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