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Metallicities on the Double Main Sequence of omega Centauri Imply Large Helium Enhancement | | Giampaolo Piotto
; Sandro Villanova
; Luigi R. Bedin
; Raffaele Gratton
; Santi Cassisi
; Yazan Momany
; Alejandra Recio-Blanco
; Sara Lucatello
; Jay Anderson
; Ivan R. King
; Adriano Pietrinferni
; Giovanni Carraro .
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1 Dec 2004 | | Journal: | Astrophys.J. 621 (2005) 777-784 | | Subject: | astro-ph | | Affiliation: | 1,2), Raffaele Gratton , Santi Cassisi , Yazan Momany , Alejandra Recio-Blanco , Sara Lucatello , Jay Anderson , Ivan R. King , Adriano Pietrinferni , and Giovanni Carraro . ( Padova Uviv., Astronomy Dpt.; E.S.O., Garching; INAF-Oss. Astronomico di | | Abstract: | Having shown in a recent paper that the main sequence of omega Centauri is split into two distinct branches, we now present spectroscopic results showing that the bluer sequence is_less_ metal-poor. We have carefully combined GIRAFFE@VLT spectra of 17 stars on each side of the split into a single spectrum for each branch, with adequate S/N to show clearly that the stars of the blue main sequence are less metal poor by 0.3 dex than those of the dominant red one. From an analysis of the individual spectra, we could not detect any abundance spread among the blue main sequence stars, while the red main sequence stars show a 0.2 dex spread in metallicity. We use stellar-structure models to show that only greatly enhanced helium can explain the color difference between the two main sequences, and we discuss ways in which this enhancement could have arisen. | | Source: | arXiv, astro-ph/0412016 | | Services: | Forum | Review | PDF | Favorites | |
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