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PP 016113

APOGEE Chemical Abundances of Globular Cluster Giants in the Inner Galaxy

Ricardo P. Schiavon, Jennifer A. Johnson, Peter M. Frinchaboy, Gail Zasowski, Szabolcs Meszaros, D. A. Garcia-Hernandez, Roger E. Cohen, Baitian Tang, Sandro Villanova, Douglas Geisler, Timothy C. Beers, J. G. Fernandez-Trincado, Ana E. Garcia Perez, Sara Lucatello, Steven R. Majewski, Sarah L. Martell, Robert W. O'Connell, Carlos Allende Prieto, Dmitry Bizyaev, Ricardo Carrera, Richard R. Lane, Elena Malanushenko, Viktor Malanushenko, Ricardo R. Munoz, Christian Nitschelm, Daniel Oravetz, Kaike Pan, Alexandre Roman-Lopes, Matthias Schultheis, Audrey Simmons
Several institutions from USA, South America, and Europe (including IAC and ULL)
We report chemical abundances obtained by SDSS-III/APOGEE for giant stars in five globular clusters located within 2.2 kpc of the Galactic centre. We detect the presence of multiple stellar populations in four of those clusters (NGC 6553, NGC 6528, Terzan 5, and Palomar 6) and find strong evidence for their presence in NGC 6522. All clusters present a significant spread in the abundances of N, C, Na, and Al, with the usual correlations and anti-correlations between various abundances seen in other globular clusters. Our results provide important quantitative constraints on theoretical models for self-enrichment of globular clusters, by testing their predictions for the dependence of yields of elements such as Na, N, C, and Al on metallicity. They also confirm that, under the assumption that field N-rich stars originate from globular cluster destruction, they can be used as tracers of their parental systems in the high- metallicity regime.

 
Aceptado para publicación en MNRAS | Enviado el 2016-12-14 | Proyecto P/308615