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2013MNRAS.435.3667M - Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc., 435, 3667-3680 (2013/November-2)

NGC 5694: another foster son of the Galactic halo.

MUCCIARELLI A., BELLAZZINI M., CATELAN M., DALESSANDRO E., AMIGO P., CORRENTI M., CORTES C. and D'ORAZI V.

Abstract (from CDS):

We present the results of the analysis of high-resolution spectra obtained with UVES-FLAMES at the Very Large Telescope for six red giant branch stars in the outer-halo metal-poor ([Fe/H]i = -1.98 and [Fe/H]ii = -1.83) Galactic globular cluster NGC 5694, which has been suggested as a possible incomer by Lee et al. based on the anomalous chemical composition of a single cluster giant. We obtain accurate abundances for a large number of elements and we find that (a)the six target stars have the same chemical composition within the uncertainties, except for Na and Al; (b) the average cluster abundance of α elements (with the only exception of Si) is nearly solar, at odds with typical halo stars and globular clusters of similar metallicity; (c) Y, Ba, La and Eu abundances are also significantly lower than in Galactic field stars and star clusters of similar metallicity. Hence, we confirm the Lee et al. classification of NGC 5694 as a cluster of extragalactic origin. We provide the first insight on the Na-O and Mg-Al anticorrelations in this cluster: all the considered stars have very similar abundance ratios for these elements, except one that has significantly lower [Na/Fe] and [Al/Fe] ratios, suggesting that some degree of early self-enrichment has occurred also in this cluster.

Abstract Copyright: © 2013 The Authors Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Royal Astronomical Society (2013)

Journal keyword(s): techniques: spectroscopic - stars: abundances - globular clusters: individual: NGC 5694

VizieR on-line data: <Available at CDS (J/MNRAS/435/3667): table1.dat table2.dat>

Nomenclature: Tables 1-3: [MBC2013] NNN N=6 among (Nos 37-105).

CDS comments: Misprint in section 6 : star XI-2 comes from Cohen et al. 2009 (2009ApJ...701.1053C) and not Cohen et al. 2004.

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