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First evidence of multiple populations along the AGB from Strömgren photometry

Gruyters, Pieter LU ; Casagrande, Luca ; Milone, Antonino P. ; Hodgkin, Simon T. ; Serenelli, Aldo and Feltzing, Sofia LU orcid (2017) In Astronomy and Astrophysics 603.
Abstract

Spectroscopic studies have demonstrated that nearly all Galactic globular clusters (GCs) harbour multiple stellar populations with different chemical compositions. Moreover, colour-magnitude diagrams based exclusively on Strömgrem photometry have allowed us to identify and characterise multiple populations along the RGB of a large number of clusters. In this paper we show for the first time that Strömgren photometry is also very efficient at identifying multiple populations along the AGB, and demonstrate that the AGB of M 3, M 92, NGC 362, NGC 1851, and NGC 6752 are not consistent with a single stellar population. We also provide a catalogue of RGB and AGB stars photometrically identified in these clusters for further spectroscopic... (More)

Spectroscopic studies have demonstrated that nearly all Galactic globular clusters (GCs) harbour multiple stellar populations with different chemical compositions. Moreover, colour-magnitude diagrams based exclusively on Strömgrem photometry have allowed us to identify and characterise multiple populations along the RGB of a large number of clusters. In this paper we show for the first time that Strömgren photometry is also very efficient at identifying multiple populations along the AGB, and demonstrate that the AGB of M 3, M 92, NGC 362, NGC 1851, and NGC 6752 are not consistent with a single stellar population. We also provide a catalogue of RGB and AGB stars photometrically identified in these clusters for further spectroscopic follow-up studies. We combined photometry and elemental abundances from the literature for RGB and AGB stars in NGC 6752 where the presence of multiple populations along the AGB has been widely debated. We find that, while the MS, SGB, and RGB host three stellar populations with different helium and light element abundances, only two populations of AGB stars are present in the cluster. These results are consistent with standard evolutionary theory.

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Globular clusters: General, Hertzsprung-Russell and C-M diagrams, Stars: Abundances, Techniques: Photometric
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Astronomy and Astrophysics
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A37
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EDP Sciences
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0004-6361
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10.1051/0004-6361/201630341
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  author       = {{Gruyters, Pieter and Casagrande, Luca and Milone, Antonino P. and Hodgkin, Simon T. and Serenelli, Aldo and Feltzing, Sofia}},
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