The Effects of Age on Red Giant Metallicities Derived from the Near-Infrared Ca II Triplet

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2003-09-23

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0309614v1

Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.347:367,2004

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Accepted by MNRAS; 21 pages in LaTeX MNRAS style, 6 tables, 6 figures

Scientific paper

10.1111/j.1365-2966.2004.07223.x

We have obtained spectra with resolution 2.5 Angstroms in the region 7500-9500 Angstroms for 116 red giants in 5 Galactic globular clusters and 6 old open clusters (5 with published metallicities, and one previously unmeasured). The signal-to-noise ranges from 20 to 85. We measure the equivalent widths of the infrared Ca II triplet absorption lines in each stars and compare to cluster metallicities taken from the literature. With globular cluster abundances on the Carretta & Gratton scale, and open cluster abundances taken from the compilation of Friel and collaborators, we find a linear relation between [Fe/H] and Ca II line strength spanning the range -2 < [Fe/H] < -0.2 and ages from 2.5 - 13 Gyr. No evidence for an age effect on the metallicity calibration is observed. Using this calibration, we find the metallicity of the old open cluster Trumpler 5 to be [Fe/H] = -0.56 +/-0.11. Considering the 10 clusters of known metallicity shifted to a common distance and reddening, we find that the additional metallicity error introduced by the variation of horizontal branch/red clump magnitude with metallicity and age is of order +/-0.05 dex, which can be neglected in comparison to the intrinsic scatter in our method. The results are discussed in the context of abundance determinations for red giants in Local Group galaxies.

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