Chemical Abundances Of Three Metal-Poor Globular Clusters (NGC 6287, NGC 6293, And NGC 6541) In The Inner Halo

Details Chemical Abundances Of Three Metal-Poor Globular Clusters (NGC 6287, NGC 6293, And NGC 6541) In The Inner Halo Chemical Abundances Of Three Metal-Poor Globular Clusters (NGC 6287, NGC 6293, And NGC 6541) In The Inner Halo

2002-05-23

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0205393v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Accepted for publication in AJ (Sept. 2002)

Scientific paper

10.1086/341948

We present a chemical abundance study of three inner old halo clusters NGC 6287, NGC 6293, and NGC 6541, finding [Fe/H] = -2.01 +/- 0.05, -1.99 +/- 0.02, and -1.76 +/- 0.02, respectively, and our metallicity measurements are in good agreement with previous estimates. The mean alpha-element abundances of our program clusters are in good agreement with other globular clusters, confirming previous results. However, the individual alpha-elements appear to follow different trends. The silicon abundances of the inner halo clusters appear to be enhanced and the titanium abundances appear to be depleted compared to the intermediate halo clusters. Our results also appear to oppose to those of metal-rich bulge giants studied by McWilliam and Rich, who found that bulge giants are titanium enhanced and silicon deficient. In particular, [Si/Ti] ratios appear to be related to Galactocentric distances,in the sense that [Si/Ti] ratios decrease with Galactocentric distance. We propose that contributions from different masses of the SNe II progenitors that enriched proto-globular cluster clouds' elemental abundances and the different initial physical environments surrounding the proto-globular clusters clouds are responsible for this gradient in [Si/Ti] ratios versus Galactocentric distances of the "old halo" globular clusters. On the other hand, our program clusters' enhanced s-process elemental abundances suggest that the formation timescale of our program clusters might be as short as a few times 10^8 yr after the star formation is initiated in the Galaxy's central regions, if the s-process site is intermediate mass AGB stars.

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