Table · dataset · 2011
EW of 6 subgiants of {omega} Cen
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We analysed high-resolution UVES spectra of six stars belonging to the subgiant branch of {omega} Centauri, and derived abundance ratios of 19 chemical elements (namely Al, Ba, C, Ca, Co, Cr, Cu, Fe, La, Mg, Mn, N, Na, Ni, Sc, Si, Sr, Ti, and Y).
Description
A comparison with previous abundance determinations for red giants provided remarkable agreement and allowed us to identify the sub-populations to which our targets belong. We found that three targets belong to a low-metallicity population at [Fe/H]=-2.0dex, [alpha/Fe]=+0.4dex and [s/Fe]=0dex.
Stars with similar characteristics were found in small amounts by past surveys of red giants. We discuss the possibility that they belong to a separate sub-population that we name VMP (very metal-poor, at most 5% of the total cluster population), which - in the self-enrichment hypothesis - is the best-candidate first stellar generation in {omega} Cen. Two of the remaining targets belong to the dominant metal-poor population (MP) at [Fe/H]=-1.7dex, and the last one to the metal-intermediate (MInt) one at [Fe/H]=-1.2dex.
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The existence of the newly defined VMP population could help to understand some puzzling results based on low-resolution spectroscopy (Sollima et al. 2005ApJ...634..332S , Villanova et al., 2007, Cat. J/ApJ/663/296) in their age differences determinations, because the metallicity resolution of these studies was probably not enough to detect the VMP population. The VMP could also correspond to some of the additional substructures of the subgiant-branch region found in the latest HST photometry (Bellini et al., 2010, Cat.
J/AJ/140/631). After trying to correlate chemical abundances with substructures in the subgiant branch of {omega} Cen, we found that the age difference between the VMP and MP populations should be small (0+/-2Gyr), while the difference between the MP and MInt populations could be slightly larger (2+/-2Gyr).
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- Reference page cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/cat/J/A+A/527/A18 ↗
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Documentation and papers
- ADS 2011A&A...527A..18P ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2011A%26A...527A..18P ↗
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Catalogue records · 2
- VOResource record dc.g-vo.org/oai.xml?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=ivo_vor&identifier=ivo%3… ↗
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- Registry record (GAVO) dc.g-vo.org/I/cds.vizier/j/a%2Ba/527/a18 ↗
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Topics
- Stated by source
- Optical
- From keywords
- Astronomy & Astrophysics
- Inferred from text
- Astronomical sciences 73%
Provenance · 1 source records, 9 field assertions
| Source | Key | Last seen | Raw |
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| IVOA Registry (Virtual Observatory) | ivo://cds.vizier/j/a+a/527/a18 | 14 d ago | JSON v1 |
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| access_level | source · IVOA Registry | connector:ivoa_registry@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[field].anzsrc:group:5101 | enrichment · IVOA Registry | taxonomy-embedding@1.1.0 | title+keywords+description (73%) |
| concepts[field].local:field:astronomy | mapping · IVOA Registry | connector:ivoa_registry@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[modality].ivoa_waveband:optical | source · IVOA Registry | connector:ivoa_registry@1.0.0 | |
| description | source · IVOA Registry | connector:ivoa_registry@1.0.0 | rr.resource.res_description |
| license_text | source · IVOA Registry | connector:ivoa_registry@1.0.0 | |
| publication_date | source · IVOA Registry | connector:ivoa_registry@1.0.0 | |
| title | source · IVOA Registry | connector:ivoa_registry@1.0.0 | rr.resource.res_title |
| updated_date | source · IVOA Registry | connector:ivoa_registry@1.0.0 |