Chemical Abundances in Giants Stars of the Tidally Disrupted Globular Cluster NGC 6712 from High-resolution Infrared Spectroscopy

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2008

Authors

Yong, David
Melendez, Jorge
Cunha, Katia
Karakas, Amanda
Norris, John
Smith, Verne V

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IOP Publishing

Abstract

We present abundances of C, N, O, F, Na, and Fe in six giant stars of the tidally disrupted globular cluster NGC 6712. The abundances were derived by comparing synthetic spectra with high-resolution infrared spectra obtained with the Phoenix spectrograph

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Keywords: Galaxy: abundances; Globular clusters: individual (Messier Number: NGC 6712); Stars: abundances

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Astrophysical Journal, The

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2037-12-31