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MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY
卷 482, 期 1, 页码 1275-1303出版社
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/sty2611
关键词
stars: abundances; globular clusters: general; galaxies: abundances; galaxies: star clusters: general; galaxies: stellar content
资金
- European Research Council (Multi-Pop) [ERC-CoG-646928]
- FONDECYT [3160375]
- AAO PhD Topup Scholarship [CE170100013]
- Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for All Sky Astrophysics in 3 Dimensions (ASTRO 3D) [CE170100013]
- ESO Telescopes at the La Silla Paranal Observatory [188.B-3002]
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Using data from the WiFeS Atlas of Galactic Globular cluster Spectra, we study the behaviour of the calcium triplet (CaT), a popular metallicity indicator in extragalactic stellar population studies. A major caveat of these studies is that the potential sensitivity to other stellar population parameters such as age, calcium abundance, and the initial mass function has not yet been empirically evaluated. Here, we present measurements of the strength of the CaT feature for 113 globular clusters in the Milky Way and its satellite galaxies. We derive empirical calibrations between the CaT index and both the iron abundance ([Fe/H]) and calcium abundance ([Ca/H]), finding a tighter relationship for [Ca/H] than for [Fe/H]. For stellar populations, 3 Gyr and older the CaT can be used to reliably measure [Ca/H] at the 0.1 dex level but becomes less reliable for ages of Gyr and younger. We find that the CaT is relatively insensitive to the horizontal branch morphology. The stellar mass function however affects the CaT strengths significantly only at low metallicities. Using our newly derived empirical calibration, we convert our measured CaT indices into [Ca/H] values for the globular clusters in our sample.
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