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Journal articles on the topic "SDSS Globular Clusters"

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Piatti, Andrés E. "Globular Cluster Candidates in the Sagittarius Dwarf Galaxy." Astronomical Journal 162, no. 6 (November 24, 2021): 261. http://dx.doi.org/10.3847/1538-3881/ac2833.

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Abstract Recently, new Sagittarius (Sgr) dwarf-galaxy globular clusters were discovered, which opens the question of the actual size of the Sgr globular cluster population, and therefore on our understanding of the Sgr galaxy formation and accretion history of the Milky Way. Based on Gaia EDR3 and SDSS IV DR16 (APOGEE-2) data sets, we performed an analysis of the color–magnitude diagrams (CMDs) of the eight new Sgr globular clusters found by Minniti et al. from a sound cleaning of the contamination of Milky Way and Sgr field stars, complemented by available kinematic and metal abundance information. The cleaned CMDs and spatial stellar distibutions reveal the presence of stars with a wide range of cluster membership probabilities. Minni 332 turned out to be a younger (<9 Gyr) and more metal-rich ([M/H] ≳ −1.0 dex) globular cluster than M54, the nuclear Sgr globular cluster; as could also be the case of Minni 342, 348, and 349, although their results are less convincing. Minni 341 could be an open cluster candidate (age < 1 Gyr, [M/H] ∼ −0.3 dex), while the analyses of Minni 335, 343, and 344 did not allow us to confirm their physical reality. We also built the Sgr cluster frequency (CF) using available ages of the Sgr globular clusters and compared it with that obtained from the Sgr star formation history. Both CFs are in excellent agreement. However, the addition of eight new globular clusters with ages and metallicities distributed according to the Sgr age–metallicity relationship turns out in a remarkably different CF.
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Lardo, C., M. Bellazzini, E. Pancino, E. Carretta, A. Bragaglia, and E. Dalessandro. "Mining SDSS in search of multiple populations in globular clusters." Astronomy & Astrophysics 525 (December 6, 2010): A114. http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201015662.

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Vanderbeke, Joachim, Michael J. West, Roberto De Propris, Eric W. Peng, John P. Blakeslee, Andrés Jordán, Patrick Côté, et al. "G2C2 – I. Homogeneous photometry for Galactic globular clusters in SDSS passbands." Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 437, no. 2 (November 16, 2013): 1725–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stt2002.

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Morrison, Heather L., Zhibo Ma, James L. Clem, Deokkeun An, Thomas Connor, Andrew Schechtman-Rook, Luca Casagrande, et al. "GLOBULAR AND OPEN CLUSTERS OBSERVED BY SDSS/SEGUE: THE GIANT STARS." Astronomical Journal 151, no. 1 (December 18, 2015): 7. http://dx.doi.org/10.3847/0004-6256/151/1/7.

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Vanderbeke, Joachim, Roberto De Propris, Sven De Rijcke, Maarten Baes, Michael J. West, and John P. Blakeslee. "G2C2 – III. Structural parameters for Galactic globular clusters in SDSS passbands." Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 450, no. 3 (May 2015): 2692–707. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stv850.

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Fernández-Trincado, José G., Dante Minniti, Timothy C. Beers, Sandro Villanova, Doug Geisler, Stefano O. Souza, Leigh C. Smith, et al. "The enigmatic globular cluster UKS 1 obscured by the bulge: H-band discovery of nitrogen-enhanced stars." Astronomy & Astrophysics 643 (November 2020): A145. http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202039328.

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The presence of nitrogen-enriched stars in globular clusters provides key evidence for multiple stellar populations (MPs), as has been demonstrated with globular cluster spectroscopic data towards the bulge, disk, and halo. In this work, we employ the VVV Infrared Astrometric Catalogue (VIRAC) and the DR16 SDSS-IV release of the APOGEE survey to provide the first detailed spectroscopic study of the bulge globular cluster UKS 1. Based on these data, a sample of six selected cluster members was studied. We find the mean metallicity of UKS 1 to be [Fe/H] = −0.98 ± 0.11, considerably more metal-poor than previously reported, and a negligible metallicity scatter, typical of that observed by APOGEE in other Galactic globular clusters. In addition, we find a mean radial velocity of 66.1 ± 12.9 km s−1, which is in good agreement with literature values, within 1σ. By selecting stars in the VIRAC catalogue towards UKS 1, we also measure a mean proper motion of (μαcos(δ), μδ) = (−2.77 ± 0.23, −2.43 ± 0.16) mas yr−1. We find strong evidence for the presence of MPs in UKS 1, since four out of the six giants analysed in this work have strong enrichment in nitrogen ([N/Fe] ≳ +0.95) accompanied by lower carbon abundances ([C/Fe] ≲ −0.2). Overall, the light- (C, N), α- (O, Mg, Si, Ca, Ti), Fe-peak (Fe, Ni), Odd-Z (Al, K), and the s-process (Ce, Nd, Yb) elemental abundances of our member candidates are consistent with those observed in globular clusters at similar metallicity. Furthermore, the overall star-to-star abundance scatter of elements exhibiting the multiple-population phenomenon in UKS 1 is typical of that found in other global clusters (GCs), and larger than the typical errors of some [X/Fe] abundances. Results from statistical isochrone fits in the VVV colour-magnitude diagrams indicate an age of 13.10−1.29+0.93 Gyr, suggesting that UKS 1 is a fossil relic in the Galactic bulge.
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Szigeti, László, Szabolcs Mészáros, Gyula M. Szabó, José G. Fernández-Trincado, Richard R. Lane, and Roger E. Cohen. "The rotation of selected globular clusters and the differential rotation of M3 in multiple populations from the SDSS-IV APOGEE-2 survey." Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 504, no. 1 (April 12, 2021): 1144–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stab1007.

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ABSTRACT In this paper, we analyse 10 globular clusters in order to measure their rotational properties by using high precision radial velocity data from the SDSS-IV APOGEE-2 survey. Out of the 10 clusters we were able to successfully measure the rotation speed and position angle of the rotation axis for 9 clusters (M2, M3, M5, M12, M13, M15, M53, M92, M107). The comparison between our results and previous ones shows a really good agreement within our uncertainties. For four of the globular clusters, M3, M13, M5, and M15, we separated the sample into two generation of stars using their [Al/Fe] abundances and examined the kinematic features of these generations separately from one another. In case of M3, we found significant difference between the rotational properties of first and second populations, confirming for the first time the predictions of several numerical simulations from the literature. The other three clusters (M5, M13, M15) also show smaller deviation between the two groups of stars, but those deviations are comparable to our errors.
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Vanderbeke, Joachim, Michael J. West, Roberto De Propris, Eric W. Peng, John P. Blakeslee, Andrés Jordán, Patrick Côté, et al. "G2C2 – II. Integrated colour–metallicity relations for Galactic globular clusters in SDSS passbands." Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 437, no. 2 (November 16, 2013): 1734–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stt2012.

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Mészáros, Szabolcs, Thomas Masseron, D. A. García-Hernández, Carlos Allende Prieto, Timothy C. Beers, Dmitry Bizyaev, Drew Chojnowski, et al. "Homogeneous analysis of globular clusters from the APOGEE survey with the BACCHUS code – II. The Southern clusters and overview." Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 492, no. 2 (December 16, 2019): 1641–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stz3496.

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ABSTRACT We investigate the Fe, C, N, O, Mg, Al, Si, K, Ca, Ce, and Nd abundances of 2283 red giant stars in 31 globular clusters from high-resolution spectra observed in both the Northern and Southern hemisphere by the SDSS-IV APOGEE-2 survey. This unprecedented homogeneous data set, largest to date, allows us to discuss the intrinsic Fe spread, the shape, and statistics of Al-Mg and N-C anti-correlations as a function of cluster mass, luminosity, age, and metallicity for all 31 clusters. We find that the Fe spread does not depend on these parameters within our uncertainties including cluster metallicity, contradicting earlier observations. We do not confirm the metallicity variations previously observed in M22 and NGC 1851. Some clusters show a bimodal Al distribution, while others exhibit a continuous distribution as has been previously reported in the literature. We confirm more than two populations in ω Cen and NGC 6752, and find new ones in M79. We discuss the scatter of Al by implementing a correction to the standard chemical evolution of Al in the Milky Way. After correction, its dependence on cluster mass is increased suggesting that the extent of Al enrichment as a function of mass was suppressed before the correction. We observe a turnover in the Mg-Al anticorrelation at very low Mg in ω Cen, similar to the pattern previously reported in M15 and M92. ω Cen may also have a weak K-Mg anticorrelation, and if confirmed, it would be only the third cluster known to show such a pattern.
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Horta, Danny, Ricardo P. Schiavon, J. Ted Mackereth, Timothy C. Beers, José G. Fernández-Trincado, Peter M. Frinchaboy, D. A. García-Hernández, et al. "The chemical compositions of accreted and in situ galactic globular clusters according to SDSS/APOGEE." Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 493, no. 3 (February 18, 2020): 3363–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/mnras/staa478.

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ABSTRACT Studies of the kinematics and chemical compositions of Galactic globular clusters (GCs) enable the reconstruction of the history of star formation, chemical evolution, and mass assembly of the Galaxy. Using the latest data release (DR16) of the SDSS/APOGEE survey, we identify 3090 stars associated with 46 GCs. Using a previously defined kinematic association, we break the sample down into eight separate groups and examine how the kinematics-based classification maps into chemical composition space, considering only α (mostly Si and Mg) elements and Fe. Our results show that (i) the loci of both in situ and accreted subgroups in chemical space match those of their field counterparts; (ii) GCs from different individual accreted subgroups occupy the same locus in chemical space. This could either mean that they share a similar origin or that they are associated with distinct satellites which underwent similar chemical enrichment histories; (iii) the chemical compositions of the GCs associated with the low orbital energy subgroup defined by Massari and collaborators is broadly consistent with an in situ origin. However, at the low-metallicity end, the distinction between accreted and in situ populations is blurred; (iv) regarding the status of GCs whose origin is ambiguous, we conclude the following: the position in Si–Fe plane suggests an in situ origin for Liller 1 and a likely accreted origin for NGC 5904 and NGC 6388. The case of NGC 288 is unclear, as its orbital properties suggest an accretion origin, its chemical composition suggests it may have formed in situ.
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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "SDSS Globular Clusters"

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Rockosi, Constance M. "Detection and analysis of the tidal tails around the globular cluster Palomar 5 in the SDSS commissioning data /." 2001. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3029532.

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Conference papers on the topic "SDSS Globular Clusters"

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Gontcharov, G., A. Mosenkov, M. Khovritchev, V. Il’in, A. Marchuk, S. Savchenko, A. Smirnov, and P. Usachev. "The properties of Galactic globular clusters from Gaia EDR3 and other data compared with theoretical isochrones." In ASTRONOMY AT THE EPOCH OF MULTIMESSENGER STUDIES. Proceedings of the VAK-2021 conference, Aug 23–28, 2021. Crossref, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.51194/vak2021.2022.1.1.182.

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We fit theoretical isochrones from different models of internal structure and evolution of stars to photometric data for thestars in globular clusters of our Galaxy. To select cluster members, determine cluster sizes and calculate systemic propermotions, we use parallaxes and proper motions from Gaia EDR3. To calculate the most probable distance, age, interstellarextinction in a variety of filters and differential reddening in cluster fields, we use photometry in more than 26 filters betweenthe ultraviolet and mid-infrared waverange from HST, Gaia EDR3, Pan-STARRS DR1, DES, SDSS, unWISE, SAGE andother datasets in combination with the PARSEC, MIST, DSEP, and BaSTI-IAC isochrones, as for the solar metallicityscale as for alpha- and helium-enriched scales. The metallicity and enrichment of the clusters is taken from spectroscopicobservations and tested for compliance with the photometric results. We carry out a thorough analysis of random andsystematic uncertainties of the obtained results. The derived extinctions in many filters allow us to estimate an empiricalextinction law for each cluster. A complete analysis has been performed for five clusters (NGC288, NGC362, NGC5904,NGC6205, and NGC6218), a preliminary analysis, based on the Gaia EDR3 astrometry and photometry only, has beendone for 38 more clusters. The main conclusions are as follows. First, unprecedentedly accurate astrometry of Gaia EDR3allows us to segregate the cluster members from fore- and background stars and to indicate that the size of many clustersis much larger than previously thought. Second, the distances, derived by us from the photometry-to-isochrone fitting, arestill more precise than distances from the Gaia EDR3 parallaxes. Third, contrary to the popular 2D reddening maps ofSchlegel-1998 and Planck, we found no clusters at high Galactic latitudes with an extinction A V < 0.1. Fourth, for thehorizontal branch second parameter quartet NGC 288–NGC 362–NGC 5904–NGC 6218, the age is undoubtedly the secondparameter.
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