Computer Science – Databases
Scientific paper
May 2010
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2010ycat..35179081g&link_type=abstract
VizieR On-line Data Catalog: J/A+A/517/A81. Originally published in: 2010A&A...517A..81G
Computer Science
Databases
Clusters: Globular, Abundances, Stars: Horizontal Branch
Scientific paper
The second parameter (the first being metallicity) defining the distribution of stars on the horizontal branch (HB) of globular clusters (GCs) has long been one of the major open issues in our understanding of the evolution of normal stars. Large photometric and spectroscopic databases are now available: they include large and homogeneous sets of colour-magnitude diagrams, cluster ages, and homogeneous data about chemical compositions from our FLAMES survey.
We use these databases to re-examine this issue. Methods. We use the photometric data to derive median and extreme (i.e., the values including 90% of the distribution) colours and magnitudes of stars along the HB for about a hundred GCs. We transform these into median and extreme masses of stars on the HB, using the models developed by the Pisa group, and taking into account evolutionary effects. We compare these masses with those expected at the tip of the red giant branch (RGB) to derive the total mass lost by the stars.
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Bragaglia Angela
Carretta Eugenio
Gratton Raffaele G.
Lucatello Sara
S'orazii V.
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