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Evidence for Non-Homogeneity in the Metal Abundances of Stars in Globular Clusters

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 August 2015

Robert P. Kraft*
Affiliation:
Lick Observatory, University of California, Santa Cruz

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Evidence for non-homogeneity in the metal abundances of giant stars in various globular clusters is reviewed. The nonhomogeneity is of two kinds: (1) differences in the value of from star to star in the same cluster, for particular values of A, and (2) non-constancy of the cluster mean value of as a function of A. Observational evidence for the existence of variations of both kinds is cited, and discussed for four “nucleosynthetic” groups of elements: viz., s-process, Fe-peak, α-process, and CNO. The rival hypotheses of core-envelope mixing and primordial abundance variations are examined in the light of the observations.

Type
Part IV: HR Diagrams, Clusters
Copyright
Copyright © Reidel 1978