Ages, Metallicities, and [alpha/Fe] ratios of globular clusters in NGC 147, NGC 185, and NGC 205

Details Ages, Metallicities, and [alpha/Fe] ratios of globular clusters in NGC 147, NGC 185, and NGC 205 Ages, Metallicities, and [alpha/Fe] ratios of globular clusters in NGC 147, NGC 185, and NGC 205

2006-08-10

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0608227v1

Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.372:1259-1274,2006

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

17 pages, 8 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS, a high-resolution version of the paper is available from http://www.

Scientific paper

10.1111/j.1365-2966.2006.10925.x

We present measurements of ages, metallicities, and [alpha/Fe] ratios for 16 globular clusters (GC) in NGC 147, NGC 185, and NGC 205 and of the central regions of the diffuse galaxy light in NGC 185, and NGC 205. Our results are based on spectra obtained with the SCORPIO multi-slit spectrograph at the 6-m telescope of the Russian Academy of Sciences. We include in our analysis high-quality HST/WFPC2 photometry of individual stars in the studied GCs to investigate the influence of their horizontal branch (HB) morphology on the spectroscopic analysis. All our sample GCs appear to be old (T>8 Gyr) and metal-poor ([Z/H] <~ -1.1), except for the globular clusters Hubble V in NGC 205 (T=1.2+/-0.6 Gyr, [Z/H]=-0.6+/-0.2), Hubble VI in NGC 205 (T=4+/-2 Gyr, [Z/H]=-0.8+/-0.2), and FJJVII in NGC 185 (T=7+/-3 Gyr, [Z/H]=-0.8+/-0.2). The majority of our GC sample has solar [alpha/Fe] enhancements in contrast to the halo population of GCs in M31 and the Milky Way. The HB morphologies for our sample GCs follow the same behavior with metallicity as younger halo Galactic globular clusters. We show that it is unlikely that they bias our spectroscopic age estimates based on Balmer absorption line indices. Spectroscopic ages and metallicities of the central regions in NGC 205 and NGC 185 coincide with those obtained from color-magnitude diagrams. The central field stellar populations in these galaxies have approximately the same age as their most central GCs (Hubble V in NGC 205 and FJJIII in NGC 185), but are more metal-rich than the central globular clusters.

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