The Effects of Age on Red Giant Metallicities Derived from the NearInfrared Ca II Triplet.pdfVIP

A Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc. 000, 000–000 (0000) Printed 2 February 2008 (MN LT X style file v2.2) E The Effects of Age on Red Giant Metallicities Derived From the Near-Infrared Ca II Triplet⋆ 1 2 1 2 3 A.A. Cole, † T.A. Smecker-Hane, E. Tolstoy, T.L. Bosler and J.S. Gallagher, 1Kapteyn Astronomical Institute, University of Groningen, Postbus 800, 9700 AV Groningen, The Netherlands. 3 2 Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Irvine, 4129 Frederick Reines Hall, Irvine, CA 92697-4575. 0 3 Department of Astronomy, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 5534 Sterling Hall, 475 North Charter Street, Madison, WI 53706-1582. 0 2 p e 2 February 2008 S 3 2 ABSTRACT ˚ ˚ We have obtained spectra with resolution ∼2.5 A in the region ≈ 7500–9500 A for 116 1 red giants in 5 Galactic globular clusters and 6 old open clusters (5 with published v metallicities, and 1 previously unmeasured). The signal-to-noise ranges from 20 ≤ S/N 4 ≤ 85. We measure the equivalent widths of the infrared Ca II triplet absorption lines in 1 6 each star and compare to cluster metallicities taken from the literature. With globular 9 cluster abundances on the Carretta Gratton scale,