Evolved Stars in the Core of the Massive Globular Cluster NGC 2419

Details Evolved Stars in the Core of the Massive Globular Cluster NGC 2419 Evolved Stars in the Core of the Massive Globular Cluster NGC 2419

2008-09-09

arxiv.org/abs/0809.1782v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

27 pages, 25 figures (some bitmapped), uses emulateapj, accepted to Astronomical Journal

Scientific paper

10.1088/0004-6256/136/6/2259

We present an analysis of optical and ultraviolet Hubble Space Telescope photometry for evolved stars in the core of the distant massive globular cluster NGC 2419. We characterize the horizontal branch (HB) population in detail including corrections for incompleteness on the long blue tail. We present a method for removing (to first order) lifetime effects from the distribution of HB stars to facilitate more accurate measurements of helium abundance for clusters with blue HBs and to clarify the distribution of stars reaching the zero-age HB. The population ratio R = N_HB / N_RGB implies there may be slight helium enrichment among the EHB stars in the cluster, but that it is likely to be small (dY < 0.05). An examination of the upper main sequence does not reveal any sign of multiple populations. Through comparisons of optical CMDs, we present evidence that the EHB clump in NGC 2419 contains the end of the canonical horizontal branch, and that the boundary between the normal HB stars and blue hook stars shows up as a change in the density of stars in the CMD. This corresponds to a spectroscopically-verified gap in NGC 2808 and an "edge" in omega Cen. The more clearly visible HB gap at V = 23.5 appears to be too bright.(Abridged)

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