Heavy elements abundances in turn-off stars and early subgiants in NGC 6752

Details Heavy elements abundances in turn-off stars and early subgiants in NGC 6752 Heavy elements abundances in turn-off stars and early subgiants in NGC 6752

2003-11-12

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0311278v1

Astron.Astrophys. 414 (2004) 1071-1079

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

10 pages, 8 figures. Accepted for publication in A&A

Scientific paper

10.1051/0004-6361:20034014

High resolution spectra (R > 40 000) for 9 main sequence turn-off stars and 9 subgiants in the globular cluster NGC 6752 were acquired with UVES on the VLT-Kueyen (UT2). These data have been used to determine the abundances of some heavy elements (strontium, yttrium, barium and europium). This paper presents for the first time accurate results for heavy elements in this globular cluster. We did not find any systematic effect between the abundances found in turn-off stars, subgiants, and giants. We obtain the following mean abundances for these elements in our sample (turn-off stars and subgiants): [Sr/Fe] = 0.06 +/- 0.16, [Y/Fe] = -0.01 +/- 0.12, [Ba/Fe] = 0.18 +/- 0.11, and [Eu/Fe] = 0.41 +/- 0.09. The dispersion in the abundance ratios of the different elements is low and can be totally explained by uncertainties in their derivation. These ratios are in agreement with the values found in field halo stars with the same metallicity. We did not observe any correlation between the [n-capture/Fe] ratios and the star-to-star variations of the O and Na abundances. The [Ba/Eu] and [Sr/Ba] ratios show clearly that this globular cluster has also been uniformly enriched by r- and s-process synthesis.

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