Recent Advances in High Dispersion Spectroscopy of Globular Cluster Stars

Author(s):  
Raffaele G. Gratton
1988 ◽  
Vol 132 ◽  
pp. 525-530
Author(s):  
Raffaele G. Gratton

The use CCD detectors has allowed a major progress in abundance derivations for globular cluster stars in the last years. Abundances deduced from high dispersion spectra now correlates well with other abundance indicators. I discuss some problems concerning the derivation of accurate metal abundances for globular clusters using high dispersion spectra from both the old photographic and the most recent CCD data. The discrepant low abundances found by Cohen (1980), from photographic material for M71 giants, are found to be due to the use of too high microturbulences.


1988 ◽  
Vol 126 ◽  
pp. 497-498
Author(s):  
Catherine A. Pilachowski ◽  
Christopher Sneden

In 1979 a disturbing controversy arose in the field of globular cluster research when Cohen (1980) and Pilachowski, Canterna, and Wallerstein (1980) announced the results of the first high dispersion studies of the composition of giants in the globular clusters M 71 and 47 Tucanae. In contrast to earlier studies, which found metallicities of typically −0.3 and −0.5 dex, these investigators obtained values of −1.3 and −1.1. Since then, many have attempted to redetermine the abundances of M 71 and 47 Tuc to explain the discrepant results. These efforts have all suffered from the absence of high signal-to-noise, high resolution spectra of stars with temperatures above 4300 K.


1980 ◽  
Vol 85 ◽  
pp. 385-400 ◽  
Author(s):  
Judith G. Cohen

Rapid improvements in instrumentation over the past few years have made the spectroscopic study of individual globular cluster giants feasable. Three years ago I began a program of high dispersion abundance analyses of such stars to provide a calibration for the many photometric systems used to rank globular clusters in metallicity. The results for four clusters (M92, M15, M13, and M3) of low and intermediate metallicity have already appeared (Cohen, 1978, 1979), and additional detailed analyses of stars in M5 and M13 (Pilachowski, Wallerstein and Leep, 1979) will soon be available. Ignoring the elements C, N, and O, to which we shall return later, these detailed abundance analyses yielded few great surprises; perhaps the metallicity scale that had previously been used was too high by about 0.2 dex, and also it became clear that M3 was a very metal poor cluster. However, the calibration of the metal rich globulars beyond the simple ranking level of Mould, Struthman, and McElroy (1979) had not been attempted.


2002 ◽  
Vol 207 ◽  
pp. 700-702
Author(s):  
Søren S. Larsen ◽  
Jean P. Brodie ◽  
Bruce G. Elmegreen ◽  
Yuri N. Efremov ◽  
Paul W. Hodge ◽  
...  

Using new (Cycle 9) HST / WFPC2 data, we have studied a peculiar star forming region in the nearby Sc-type spiral NGC 6946. The region has a bubble-like shape and a diameter of about 600 pc. Near the centre is an extremely luminous young globular cluster with MV = −13.2 mag. The cluster has a compact core with a core radius of about 1.3 pc but is surrounded by an extended halo with a power-law luminosity profile similar to that observed for young LMC clusters. From Keck / HIRES high-dispersion spectroscopy we measure a velocity dispersion of 10 km s−1, leading to a dynamical mass estimate of about 1.7 × 106 solar masses. The dynamical mass estimate is comparable to the expectation from population synthesis modelling under the assumption of a Salpeter IMF extending down to 0.1 M⊙.


1966 ◽  
Vol 25 ◽  
pp. 93-97
Author(s):  
Richard Woolley

It is now possible to determine proper motions of high-velocity objects in such a way as to obtain with some accuracy the velocity vector relevant to the Sun. If a potential field of the Galaxy is assumed, one can compute an actual orbit. A determination of the velocity of the globular clusterωCentauri has recently been completed at Greenwich, and it is found that the orbit is strongly retrograde in the Galaxy. Similar calculations may be made, though with less certainty, in the case of RR Lyrae variable stars.


1965 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
pp. 109-111
Author(s):  
Frederick R. West

There are certain visual double stars which, when close to a node of their relative orbit, should have enough radial velocity difference (10-20 km/s) that the spectra of the two component stars will appear resolved on high-dispersion spectrograms (5 Å/mm or less) obtainable by use of modern coudé and solar spectrographs on bright stars. Both star images are then recorded simultaneously on the spectrograph slit, so that two stellar components will appear on each spectrogram.


2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (8) ◽  
pp. 1022-1060 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wenbo Ma ◽  
Nikolaos Kaplaneris ◽  
Xinyue Fang ◽  
Linghui Gu ◽  
Ruhuai Mei ◽  
...  

This review summarizes recent advances in C–S and C–Se formations via transition metal-catalyzed C–H functionalization utilizing directing groups to control the site-selectivity.


2006 ◽  
Vol 73 ◽  
pp. 109-119 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chris Stockdale ◽  
Michael Bruno ◽  
Helder Ferreira ◽  
Elisa Garcia-Wilson ◽  
Nicola Wiechens ◽  
...  

In the 30 years since the discovery of the nucleosome, our picture of it has come into sharp focus. The recent high-resolution structures have provided a wealth of insight into the function of the nucleosome, but they are inherently static. Our current knowledge of how nucleosomes can be reconfigured dynamically is at a much earlier stage. Here, recent advances in the understanding of chromatin structure and dynamics are highlighted. The ways in which different modes of nucleosome reconfiguration are likely to influence each other are discussed, and some of the factors likely to regulate the dynamic properties of nucleosomes are considered.


1950 ◽  
Vol 34 (5) ◽  
pp. 1363-1380
Author(s):  
Theodore L. Badger ◽  
William E. Patton

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