Anticorrelated CN and CH Variations on the 47 Tucanae Main-Sequence Turnoff

Details Anticorrelated CN and CH Variations on the 47 Tucanae Main-Sequence Turnoff Anticorrelated CN and CH Variations on the 47 Tucanae Main-Sequence Turnoff

1994-08-11

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9408033v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

11 pages in uuencoded compressed postscript (including all figures), to appear in the December 1994 Astronomical Journal

Scientific paper

10.1086/117229

Observations of CN and CH band strengths among a random sample of main-sequence turn-off stars (+3.9 < MV < +4.6) in the globular cluster 47 Tuc (NGC 104, C0021-723) were made with the CTIO Argus fiber spectrograph for the purpose of determining the ratio of CN-strong to CN-weak stars and investigating the behavior of CH relative to CN. Of the 20 turn-off stars, 12 were found to be CN-strong while 8 appear to be CN-weak. This ratio of CN-strong to CN-weak stars is similar to the ratios found among the more luminous 47 Tuc stars and implies little change in the overall distribution of CN with evolutionary state, although the present sample size is small. A general anticorrelation between CN and CH is also observed in that the CN-weak main-sequence stars all (with one possible exception) exhibit strong CH bands - a trend similar to that found among the brighter stars. That these variations occur among such relatively un-evolved stars and that the overall CN distribution appears to be independent of evolutionary state presents serious challenges to internal or mixing theories of their origin. We therefore suggest that at least some component of the C and N abundance inhomogeneities observed among the brighter (more evolved) stars of this cluster appears to have been established prior to the commencement of evolution up the red giant branch.

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