Issue |
A&A
Volume 588, April 2016
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Article Number | A148 | |
Number of page(s) | 14 | |
Section | Galactic structure, stellar clusters and populations | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201526949 | |
Published online | 01 April 2016 |
MUSE crowded field 3D spectroscopy of over 12 000 stars in the globular cluster NGC 6397
I. The first comprehensive HRD of a globular cluster⋆,⋆⋆
1
Institut für Astrophysik, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen,
Friedrich-Hund-Platz 1,
37077
Göttingen,
Germany
e-mail:
husser@astro.physik.uni-goettingen.de
2
Leibniz-Institut für Astrophysik Potsdam (AIP),
An der Sternwarte 16,
14482
Potsdam,
Germany
3
Institut für Physik und Astronomie, Universität
Potsdam, 14476
Potsdam,
Germany
4
CRAL, Observatoire de Lyon, CNRS, Université Lyon 1,
9 avenue Ch. André,
69561
Saint-Genis-Laval Cedex,
France
5
Leiden Observatory, Leiden University,
PO Box 9513, 2300 RA
Leiden, The
Netherlands
6
GEPI, Observatoire de Paris, CNRS, Université
Paris-Diderot, Place Jules
Janssen, 92190
Meudon,
France
Received: 13 July 2015
Accepted: 13 February 2016
Aims. We demonstrate the high multiplex advantage of crowded field 3D spectroscopy with the new integral field spectrograph MUSE by means of a spectroscopic analysis of more than 12 000 individual stars in the globular cluster NGC 6397.
Methods. The stars are deblended with a point spread function fitting technique, using a photometric reference catalogue from HST as prior, including relative positions and brightnesses. This catalogue is also used for a first analysis of the extracted spectra, followed by an automatic in-depth analysis via a full-spectrum fitting method based on a large grid of PHOENIX spectra.
Results. We analysed the largest sample so far available for a single globular cluster of 18 932 spectra from 12 307 stars in NGC 6397. We derived a mean radial velocity of vrad = 17.84 ± 0.07 km s-1 and a mean metallicity of [Fe/H] = −2.120 ± 0.002, with the latter seemingly varying with temperature for stars on the red giant branch (RGB). We determine Teff and [Fe/H] from the spectra, and log g from HST photometry. This is the first very comprehensive Hertzsprung-Russell diagram (HRD) for a globular cluster based on the analysis of several thousands of stellar spectra, ranging from the main sequence to the tip of the RGB. Furthermore, two interesting objects were identified; one is a post-AGB star and the other is a possible millisecond-pulsar companion.
Key words: methods: data analysis / techniques: imaging spectroscopy / planets and satellites: fundamental parameters / stars: atmospheres / pulsars: general / globular clusters: individual: NGC 6397
Data products are available at http://muse-vlt.eu/science
© ESO, 2016
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