The Chemical Composition Contrast between M3 and M13 Revisited: New Abundances for 28 Giant Stars in M3

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2003-11-21

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0311510v1

Astron.J.127:2162-2184,2004

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

55 pages, 18 figures, to be published in AJ

Scientific paper

10.1086/381907

We report new chemical abundances of 23 bright red giants of the globular cluster M3, based on high-resolution spectra obtained with the Keck I telescope. Combining these data with a previously-reported small sample of M3 giants obtained with the Lick 3m telescope, we compare [X/Fe] ratios for 28 M3 giants with 35 M13 giants, and with halo field stars. All three groups exhibit C depletion with advancing evolutionary state beginning at the RGB bump region. but the overall depletion in the clusters is larger than that of the field stars. The behaviors of O, Na, Mg and Al are distinctively different among the three stellar samples. Both M3 and M13 show evidence of high-temperature proton capture synthesis from the ON, NeNa, and MgAl cycles, while there is no evidence for such synthesis among halo field stars. But the degree of such extreme proton-capture synthesis in M3 is smaller than it is in M13, and no indication that O depletions are a function of advancing evolutionary state as has been claimed for M13. We have also considered NGC 6752, for which Mg isotopic abundances have been reported by Yong et al. (2003). Giants in NGC 6752 and M13 satisfy the same anticorrelation of O abundances with the ratio (25Mg+26Mg)/24Mg. This suggests that these abundance ratios arose in the ejected material of 3-6 solar mass cluster stars. It also suggests that the low oxygen abundance seen among the most evolved M13 giants arose in hot-bottom O to N processing in these same intermediate-mass cluster stars. Thus mixing is required by the dependence of some abundance ratios on luminosity, but an earlier nucleosynthesis process in a hotter environment than giants or main-sequence stars is required by the variations previously seen in stars near the main sequence.

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