Cyanogen in NGC 1851 red giant branch and asymptotic giant branch stars: Quadrimodal distributions

Date

2012

Authors

Campbell, S
Yong, David
Wylie de Boer, Elizabeth
Stancliffe, R J
Lattanzio, John
Angelou, G C
D'Orazi, V D
Martell, S L
Grundahl, Frank
Sneden, Chris

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Institute of Physics Publishing Ltd.

Abstract

The Galactic globular cluster NGC 1851 has raised much interest since Hubble Space Telescope photometry revealed that it hosts a double subgiant branch. Here we report on our homogeneous study into the cyanogen (CN) band strengths in the red giant branch

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Keywords: globular clusters: general - globular clusters: individual (NGC 1851; NGC 288)-stars:AGB and post-AGB

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Source

Astrophysical Journal Letters

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Journal article

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Open Access

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