Chemical Abundances of Bright Giants in the Mildly Metal-Poor Globular Cluster M4

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1999-09-16

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9909297v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

6 pages, 2 figures, To appear in Proceedings of the 35th Liege Astrophysics Colloquium: "The Galactic Halo: From Globular Clus

Scientific paper

We present a chemical composition analysis of three dozen giant stars in the nearby ``CN-bimodal'' mildly metal-poor (<[Fe/H]> = -1.18) globular cluster M4. The analysis combined traditional spectroscopic abundance methods with modifications to the line-depth ratio technique pioneered by Gray (1994). Silicon and aluminum are found to be primordially overabundant by factors exceeding the mild overabundances usually seen in alpha- and light odd elements among halo field and globular cluster giants of comparable metallicity. In addition, barium is found to be overabundant by a factor of about four. Superimposed on the primordial abundance distribution in M4, there is evidence for the existence of proton-capture synthesis of C, O, Ne, and Mg.

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