| Issue |
EPJ Web of Conferences
Volume 19, 2012
Assembling the Puzzle of the Milky Way
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| Article Number | 03007 | |
| Number of page(s) | 3 | |
| Section | Inside Galaxy Stubs or Relics of First Stubs: Stellar Populations in the New Milky Way Satellites | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/20121903007 | |
| Published online | 07 February 2012 | |
https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/20121903007
Two views of globular cluster stars in the Galactic halo
Astronomisches Rechen-Institut, Zentrum für Astronomie der Universität Heidelberg, Mönchhofstrasse 12-14, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany
a e-mail: martell@ari.uni-heidelberg.de
In [1] we reported the discovery in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey-II/SEGUE spectroscopic database of a small subset of halo red giants, 2.5%, with CN and CH band strengths indicative of globular-cluster-like carbon and nitrogen abundances. Because the formation of stars with unusual light-element abundances is thought to be restricted to high-density environments like globular clusters, this result has strong implications for both cluster formation processes and the assembly history of the Galactic halo. Here we discuss two efforts to expand upon that work.
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