The SUMO project I. A survey of multiple populations in globular clusters
| العنوان: | The SUMO project I. A survey of multiple populations in globular clusters |
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| المؤلفون: | A. del Pino Molina, Axel Weiss, Giampaolo Piotto, Antonino Milone, Luca Sbordone, Matteo Monelli, Ricardo Carrera, Martin Asplund, Adriano Pietrinferni, Antonio Aparicio, Frank Grundahl, Santi Cassisi, Maurizio Salaris, Anna F. Marino, S. Murabito, María Cebrián, Peter B. Stetson |
| المصدر: | Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Monelli, M, Milone, A P, Stetson, P B, Marino, A F, Cassisi, S, del Pino Molina, A, Salaris, M, Aparicio, A, Asplund, M, Grundahl, F, Piotto, G, Weiss, A, Carrera, R, Cebrián, M, Murabito, S, Pietrinferni, A & Sbordone, L 2013, ' The SUMO project I. A survey of multiple populations in globular clusters ', Royal Astronomical Society. Monthly Notices, vol. 431, no. 3, pp. 2126-2149 . https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stt273 |
| بيانات النشر: | Oxford University Press (OUP), 2013. |
| سنة النشر: | 2013 |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Physics, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Diagram, FOS: Physical sciences, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Astrophysics, Horizontal branch, globular clusters: general, 01 natural sciences, techniques: photometric, photometric [techniques], Photometry (optics), Stars, Astrophysics - Solar and Stellar Astrophysics, Space and Planetary Science, Globular cluster, 0103 physical sciences, Asymptotic giant branch, Spectroscopy, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR), general [globular clusters], Main sequence |
| الوصف: | We present a general overview and the first results of the SUMO project (a SUrvey of Multiple pOpulations in Globular Clusters). The objective of this survey is the study of multiple stellar populations in the largest sample of globular clusters homogeneously analysed to date. To this aim we obtained high signal-to-noise (S/N>50) photometry for main sequence stars with mass down to ~0.5 M_SUN in a large sample of clusters using both archival and proprietary U, B, V, and I data from ground-based telescopes. In this paper, we focus on the occurrence of multiple stellar populations in twenty three clusters. We have defined a new photometric index cubi= (U-B)-(B-I), that turns out to be very effective for identifying multiple sequences along the red giant branch (RGB). We found that in the V-cubi diagram all clusters presented in this paper show broadened or multimodal RGBs, with the presence of two or more components. We found a direct connection with the chemical properties of different sequences, that display different abundances of light elements (O, Na, C, N, and Al). The cubi index is also a powerful tool to identify distinct sequences of stars along the horizontal branch and, for the first time in the case of NGC104 (47 Tuc), along the asymptotic giant branch. Our results demonstrate that i) the presence of more than two stellar populations is a common feature among globular clusters, as already highlighted in previous work; ii) multiple sequences with different chemical contents can be easily identified by using standard Johnson photometry obtained with ground-based facilities; iii) in the study of GC multiple stellar populations the cubi index is alternative to spectroscopy, and has the advantage of larger statistics. 23 pages, 20 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS |
| تدمد: | 1365-2966 0035-8711 |
| DOI: | 10.1093/mnras/stt273 |
| URL الوصول: | https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_dedup___::0bffbf0873ff11925388b09d19f7e1a7 https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stt273 |
| Rights: | OPEN |
| رقم الانضمام: | edsair.doi.dedup.....0bffbf0873ff11925388b09d19f7e1a7 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | OpenAIRE |
| تدمد: | 13652966 00358711 |
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| DOI: | 10.1093/mnras/stt273 |