Near-field cosmology with extremely metal-poor stars

A Frebel, JE Norris - Annual Review of Astronomy and …, 2015 - annualreviews.org
The oldest, most metal-poor stars in the Galactic halo and satellite dwarf galaxies present an
opportunity to explore the chemical and physical conditions of the earliest star-forming …

What is a globular cluster? An observational perspective

R Gratton, A Bragaglia, E Carretta, V D'Orazi… - The Astronomy and …, 2019 - Springer
Globular clusters are large and dense agglomerate of stars. At variance with smaller clusters
of stars, they exhibit signs of some chemical evolution. At least for this reason, they are …

The formation and assembly history of the Milky Way revealed by its globular cluster population

JMD Kruijssen, JL Pfeffer… - Monthly Notices of …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
We use the age–metallicity distribution of 96 Galactic globular clusters (GCs) to infer the
formation and assembly history of the Milky Way (MW), culminating in the reconstruction of …

The Hubble Space Telescope UV Legacy Survey of Galactic globular clusters – IX. The Atlas of multiple stellar populations

AP Milone, G Piotto, A Renzini… - Monthly Notices of …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
We use high-precision photometry of red-giant-branch (RGB) stars in 57 Galactic globular
clusters (GCs), mostly from the 'Hubble Space Telescope (HST) UV Legacy Survey of …

Kraken reveals itself–the merger history of the Milky Way reconstructed with the E-MOSAICS simulations

JMD Kruijssen, JL Pfeffer, M Chevance… - Monthly Notices of …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Globular clusters (GCs) formed when the Milky Way experienced a phase of rapid assembly.
We use the wealth of information contained in the Galactic GC population to quantify the …

The Hubble Space Telescope UV legacy survey of galactic globular clusters. I. Overview of the project and detection of multiple stellar populations

G Piotto, AP Milone, LR Bedin, J Anderson… - The Astronomical …, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
In this paper we describe a new UV-initiative Hubble Space Telescope project (GO-13297)
that will complement the existing F606W and F814W database of the Advanced Camera for …

The E-MOSAICS project: simulating the formation and co-evolution of galaxies and their star cluster populations

J Pfeffer, JMD Kruijssen, RA Crain… - Monthly Notices of the …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Abstract We introduce the MOdelling Star cluster population Assembly In Cosmological
Simulations within EAGLE (E-MOSAICS) project. E-MOSAICS incorporates models …

The ages of 55 globular clusters as determined using an improved method along with color–magnitude diagram constraints, and their implications for broader issues

DA VandenBerg, K Brogaard, R Leaman… - The Astrophysical …, 2013 - iopscience.iop.org
Ages have been derived for 55 globular clusters (GCs) for which Hubble Space Telescope
Advanced Camera for Surveys photometry is publicly available. For most of them, the …

Improved constraints on the expansion rate of the Universe up to z∼ 1.1 from the spectroscopic evolution of cosmic chronometers

M Moresco, A Cimatti, R Jimenez… - … of Cosmology and …, 2012 - iopscience.iop.org
We present new improved constraints on the Hubble parameterH (z) in the redshift range
0.15< z< 1.1, obtained from the differential spectroscopic evolution of early-type galaxies as …

Homogeneous analysis of globular clusters from the APOGEE survey with the BACCHUS code–II. The Southern clusters and overview

S Mészáros, T Masseron… - Monthly Notices of …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
We investigate the Fe, C, N, O, Mg, Al, Si, K, Ca, Ce, and Nd abundances of 2283 red giant
stars in 31 globular clusters from high-resolution spectra observed in both the Northern and …