期刊
MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY
卷 426, 期 2, 页码 1475-1495出版社
WILEY-BLACKWELL
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2966.2012.21801.x
关键词
globular clusters: general; galaxies: abundances; galaxies: star clusters: general; galaxies: stellar content
资金
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- National Science Foundation
- NSF [AST-0071048]
- W. M. Keck Foundation
- NASA [NAS 5-26555]
- European Commission
- National Science Foundation [AST-0808099, AST-0909237]
- Division Of Astronomical Sciences
- Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien [0808099] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
Although the colour distribution of globular clusters in massive galaxies is well known to be bimodal, the spectroscopic metallicity distribution has been measured in only a few galaxies. After redefining the calcium triplet indexmetallicity relation, we use our relation to derive the metallicity of 903 globular clusters in 11 early-type galaxies. This is the largest sample of spectroscopic globular cluster metallicities yet assembled. We compare these metallicities with those derived from Lick indices finding good agreement. In six of the eight galaxies with sufficient numbers of high-quality spectra we find bimodality in the spectroscopic metallicity distribution. Our results imply that most massive early-type galaxies have bimodal metallicity as well as colour distributions. This bimodality suggests that most massive early-type galaxies experienced two periods of star formation.
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