Intrinsic iron spread and a new metallicity scale for globular clusters
- E. Carretta, A. Bragaglia, Garching
- Physics
- 5 October 2009
We have collected spectra of about 2000 red giant branch (RGB) stars in 19 Galactic globular clusters (GC) using FLAMES@VLT (about 100 stars with GIRAFFE and about 10 with UVES, respectively, in each…
Na-O anticorrelation and HB. VIII. Proton-capture elements and metallicities in 17 globular clusters
- E. Carretta, A. Bragaglia, Garching
- Physics
- 16 September 2009
We present homogeneous abundance determinations for iron and some of the elements involved in the proton-capture reactions (O, Na, Mg, Al, and Si) for 202 red giants in 17 Galactic globular clusters…
Na-O anticorrelation and HB. VII. The chemical composition of first and second-generation stars in 1
- E. Carretta, A. Bragaglia, E. Sabbi
- Physics
- 16 September 2009
We present abundances of Fe, Na, and O for 1409 red giant stars in 15 galactic globular clusters (GCs), derived from the homogeneous analysis of high-resolution FLAMES/GIRAFFE spectra. Combining the…
Gaia Data Release 2
- A. Brown, A. Vallenari, T. Zwitter
- PhysicsAstronomy & Astrophysics
- 25 April 2018
Context. The second data release of the Gaia mission (DR2) includes an advance catalogue of variable stars. The classifications of these stars are based on sparse photometry from the first 22 months…
Distances and ages of NGC 6397, NGC 6752 and 47 Tuc
- R. Gratton, A. Bragaglia, U. Padova
- Physics
- 1 July 2003
New improved distances and absolute ages for the Galactic globular clusters NGC 6397, NGC 6752, and 47 Tuc are obtained using the Main Sequence Fitting Method. We derived accurate estimates of…
Gaia Data Release 2
- F. Spoto, P. Tanga, T. Zwitter
- PhysicsAstronomy & Astrophysics
- 25 April 2018
The dramatic improvement brought by Gaia DR2 astrometry of SSOs is demonstrated by comparisons to the archive data and by preliminary tests on the detection of subtle non-gravitational effects.
A Gaia DR2 view of the open cluster population in the Milky Way
- T. Cantat-Gaudin, C. Jordi, R. Carrera
- PhysicsAstronomy & Astrophysics
- 22 May 2018
Context. Open clusters are convenient probes of the structure and history of the Galactic disk. They are also fundamental to stellar evolution studies. The second Gaia data release contains precise…
Properties of stellar generations in globular clusters and relations with global parameters
- E. Carretta, A. Bragaglia, INAF-Oss.Astr.Teramo
- Physics
- 8 March 2010
We revise the scenario of the formation of Galactic globular clusters (GCs) by adding the observed detailed chemical composition of their different stellar generations to the set of their global…
Distance to the Large Magellanic Cloud: The RR Lyrae Stars
- G. Clementini, R. Gratton, A. Bragaglia, E. Carretta, L. Di Fabrizio, M. Maio
- Physics
- 31 July 2000
New photometry and spectroscopy for more than a hundred RR Lyrae stars in two fields located close to the bar of the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) are used to derive new accurate estimates of the…
Gaia Data Release 2
- Gaia Collaboration, C. Babusiaux, T. Zwitter
- PhysicsAstronomy & Astrophysics
- 25 April 2018
Context. Gaia Data Release 2 provides high-precision astrometry and three-band photometry for about 1.3 billion sources over the full sky. The precision, accuracy, and homogeneity of both astrometry…
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