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球状星团NGC 4833多个恒星星族中的钾丰度

Potassium abundances in multiple stellar populations of the globular cluster NGC 4833

Eugenio Carretta

摘要:

NGC 4833是一个贫金属的球状星团(GC),其多个恒星星族呈现极端的化学成分。Na-O反相关相当长,这与蓝色水平分支上的长尾一致,并且[Mg/Fe]比的大的星-星变化跨度超过0.5 dex。最近,显着过剩的Ca和Sc相对于场星的类似的金属丰度也被发现,信号的生产伪造的物种在H-燃烧在一个非常高的温度在这个集群中的第一代污染。由于在这些条件下钾的增强也是预期的,我们通过分析59个星团恒星的中等分辨率光谱来测试这种情况,包括在7698.98 A处的K I共振线。我们发现了广泛的K丰度,反相关的Mg和O丰度,如以前也观察到在NGC 2808。K的丰度被认为是相关的Na,Ca和Sc的。总体而言,这种化学模式证实,NGC 4833是相对较少的GC之一,其中自富集从第一代污染物发生在这样的高温下,质子捕获反应能够进行到较重的物种,如K和可能的Ca。在GC中观察到的K的扩散似乎是星团总光度和金属丰度的线性组合的函数,就像GC中多个恒星星族的其他化学特征一样。

英文摘要:

NGC 4833 is a metal-poor Galactic globular cluster (GC) whose multiple stellar populations present an extreme chemical composition. The Na-O anti-correlation is quite extended, which is in agreement with the long tail on the blue horizontal branch, and the large star-to-star variations in the [Mg/Fe] ratio span more than 0.5 dex. Recently, significant excesses of Ca and Sc with respect to field stars of a similar metallicity were also found, signaling the production of species forged in H-burning at a very high temperature in the polluters of the first generation in this cluster. Since an enhancement of potassium is also expected under these conditions, we tested this scenario by analysing intermediate resolution spectra of 59 cluster stars including the K I resonance line at 7698.98 A. We found a wide spread of K abundances, anti-correlated to Mg and O abundances, as previously also observed in NGC 2808. The abundances of K are found to be correlated to those of Na, Ca, and Sc. Overall, this chemical pattern confirms that NGC 4833 is one of the relatively few GCs where the self-enrichment from first generation polluters occurred at such high temperatures that proton-capture reactions were able to proceed up to heavier species such as K and possibly Ca. The spread in K observed in GCs appears to be a function of a linear combination of cluster total luminosity and metallicity, as other chemical signatures of multiple stellar populations in GCs.

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