HIGH-RESOLUTION INTEGRATED SPECTROSCOPY OF GALACTIC GLOBULAR CLUSTERS

  • Kim, Hak-Sub (Department of Astronomy & Center for Galaxy Evolution Research, Yonsei University) ;
  • Cho, Jaeil (Department of Astronomy & Center for Galaxy Evolution Research, Yonsei University) ;
  • Sharples, Ray M. (Department of Physics, University of Durham) ;
  • Vazdekis, Alexandre (Instituto de Astrofsica de Canarias) ;
  • Yoon, Suk-Jin (Department of Astronomy & Center for Galaxy Evolution Research, Yonsei University)
  • Published : 2013.10.08

Abstract

We present new integrated spectroscopy of 24 Galactic globular clusters, observed with the Isaac Newton Telescope in La Palma. Spectra have been extracted from one core radius for each cluster, achieving high wavelength resolution of FWHM ${\sim}2.0^{\circ}A$. In combination with two previous data sets from Puzia et al. 2002 and Schiavon et al. 2005, we construct the largest database of the Lick indices for total 53 Galactic globular clusters. The empirical metallicity.index relations are given for the 20 Lick indices for the use of deriving metallicities of remote, unresolved stellar systems.

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