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Abundances of seven red giants in the open cluster NGC 3114†

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 January 2010

C. B. Pereira  and
C. Quireza
C. B. Pereira
Affiliation:
Observatório Nacional, Rua General José Cristino 77, 20921-400 São Cristóvão, Rio de Janeiro, RJ Brazil email: claudio@on.br, quireza@on.br
C. Quireza
Affiliation:
Observatório Nacional, Rua General José Cristino 77, 20921-400 São Cristóvão, Rio de Janeiro, RJ Brazil email: claudio@on.br, quireza@on.br
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We present a chemical analysis of seven red giants in the open cluster NGC 3114. Our main goal is to investigate the chemical composition of this cluster, which is not yet available in the literature. We employed the FEROS spectrograph on the ESO 2.2m telescope. Atmospheric parameters and metallicity were derived from the measured equivalent widths of several iron lines using the spectral code moog and Kurucz model atmospheres. We obtained the abundances of O, Al, Ca, Mg, Si, Ti, Ni, Cr, Sc, Y, Zr, La, Ce and Nd by measuring the equivalent widths of the absorption lines of these elements. A mean metallicity of [Fe/H] = 0.05 ± 0.13 relative to the Sun was determined from the data of the red-giant members. This result is in good agreement with the Galactic-disk radial distribution of iron traced by open clusters. We did not find any intrinsic star-to-star scatter in the [element/Fe] ratios for the stars in this cluster. We compare our results with investigations of other open clusters. An age of 8.2 Gyr is derived from isochrone fits.

Keywords

open clusters and associations: individual (NGC 3114)Galaxy: abundances
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Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union , Volume 5 , Symposium S266: Star clusters: basic galactic building blocks throughout time and space , August 2009 , pp. 495 - 498
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Copyright © International Astronomical Union 2010

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