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Title: | The Gaia-ESO Survey: CNO abundances in the open clusters Trumpler 20, NGC 4815, and NGC 6705 | Authors: | Tautvaišienė, G. Drazdauskas, A. Mikolaitis, Š. Barisevičius, G. Puzeras, E. Stonkutė, E. Chorniy, Y. MAGRINI, LAURA ROMANO, Donatella Smiljanic, R. BRAGAGLIA, Angela Carraro, G. Friel, E. Morel, T. PANCINO, ELENA Donati, P. Jiménez-Esteban, F. Gilmore, G. RANDICH, Maria Sofia Jeffries, R. D. VALLENARI, Antonella Bensby, T. FLACCOMIO, Ettore Recio-Blanco, A. Costado, M. T. Hill, V. Jofré, P. Lardo, C. de Laverny, P. Masseron, T. Moribelli, L. Sousa, S. G. ZAGGIA, Simone |
Issue Date: | 2015 | Journal: | ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS | Number: | 573 | First Page: | A55 | Abstract: | Context. The Gaia-ESO Public Spectroscopic Survey will observe a large sample of clusters and cluster stars, covering a wide age-distance-metallicity-position-density parameter space. <BR /> Aims: We aim to determine C, N, and O abundances in stars of Galactic open clusters of the Gaia-ESO survey and to compare the observed abundances with those predicted by current stellar and Galactic evolution models. In this pilot paper, we investigate the first three intermediate-age open clusters. <BR /> Methods: High-resolution spectra, observed with the FLAMES-UVES spectrograph on the ESO VLT, were analysed using a differential model atmosphere method. Abundances of carbon were derived using the C<SUB>2</SUB> band heads at 5135 and 5635.5 Å. The wavelength interval 6470-6490 Å, with CN features, was analysed to determine nitrogen abundances. Oxygen abundances were determined from the [O i] line at 6300 Å. <BR /> Results: The mean values of the elemental abundances in Trumpler 20 as determined from 42 stars are: [ Fe/H ] = 0.10 ± 0.08 (s.d.), [ C/H ] = -0.10 ± 0.07, [ N/H ] = 0.50 ± 0.07, and consequently C/N = 0.98 ± 0.12. We measure from five giants in NGC 4815: [ Fe/H ] = -0.01 ± 0.04, [ C/H ] = -0.17 ± 0.08, [ N/H ] = 0.53 ± 0.07, [ O/H ] = 0.12 ± 0.09, and C/N = 0.79 ± 0.08. We obtain from 27 giants in NGC 6705: [ Fe/H ] = 0.0 ± 0.05, [ C/H ] = -0.08 ± 0.06, [ N/H ] = 0.61 ± 0.07, [ O/H ] = 0.13 ± 0.05, and C/N = 0.83 ± 0.19. The C/N ratios of stars in the investigated open clusters were compared with the ratios predicted by stellar evolutionary models. For the corresponding stellar turn-off masses from 1.9 to 3.3 M<SUB>☉</SUB>, the observed C/N ratio values are very close to the predictions of standard first dredge-up models as well as to models of thermohaline extra-mixing. They are not decreased as much as predicted by the recent model in which the thermohaline- and rotation-induced extra-mixing act together. The average [O/H] abundance ratios of NGC 4815 and NGC 6705 are compared with the predictions of two Galactic chemical evolution models. The data are consistent with the evolution at the solar radius within the errors. <BR /> Conclusions: The first results of CNO determinations in open clusters show the potential of the Gaia-ESO Survey to judge stellar and Galactic chemical evolution models and the validity of their physical assumptions through a homogeneous and detailed spectral analysis. <P />Based on data products from observations made with ESO Telescopes at the La Silla Paranal Observatory under programme ID 188.B-3002 (The Gaia-ESO Public Spectroscopic Survey, PIs G. Gilmore and S. Randich). | Acknowledgments: | Based on data products from observations made with ESO Telescopes at the La Silla Paranal Observatory under programme ID 188.B-3002. This work was partly supported by the European Union FP7 programme through ERC grant number 320360 and by the Leverhulme Trust through grant RPG-2012-541. We acknowledge the support from INAF and Ministero dell’ Istruzione, dell’ Università e della Ricerca (MIUR) in the form of the grant “Premiale VLT 2012” and “The Chemical and Dynamical Evolution of the Milky Way and Local Group Galaxies” (prot. 2010LY5N2T). The results presented here benefit from discussions held during the Gaia -ESO workshops and conferences supported by the ESF (European Science Foundation) through the GREAT Research Network Programme. T. Bensby was funded by grant No. 621-2009-3911 from the Swedish Research Council. T. Morel acknowledges financial support from Belspo for contract PRODEX Gaia -DPAC. R. Smiljanic was supported by the National Science Center of Poland through grant 2012/07/B/ST9/04428. This research has made use of the SIMBAD database, operated at CDS, Strasbourg, France, of NASA’s Astrophysics Data System, of the compilation of atomic lines from the Vienna Atomic Line Database (VALD), and of the WEBDA database, operated at the Department of Theoretical Physics and Astrophysics of the Masaryk University. | URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12386/23066 | URL: | https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2015/01/aa24989-14/aa24989-14.html http://arxiv.org/abs/1411.2831v1 |
ISSN: | 0004-6361 | DOI: | 10.1051/0004-6361/201424989 | Bibcode ADS: | 2015A&A...573A..55T | Fulltext: | open |
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