Abundances on the Main Sequence of ω Centauri

Stanford, Laura; Da Costa, Gary; Norris, John; Cannon, Russell

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Abundances on the Main Sequence of ω Centauri

Date

2007

Authors

Stanford, Laura

Da Costa, Gary

Norris, John

Cannon, Russell

Publisher

IOP Publishing

Abstract

Abundance ratios of carbon, nitrogen, and strontium relative to iron, calculated using spectrum synthesis techniques, are given for a sample of main-sequence and turnoff stars that belong to the globular cluster ω Centauri. The variations of carbon, nitr