High-resolution spectroscopy of the metal-poor bulge globular cluster NGC 6558

• Grant number: 15/09482-3
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: July 01, 2015
• End date: June 30, 2016
• Field of knowledge: Physical Sciences and Mathematics - Astronomy - Stellar Astrophysics
• Principal Investigator: Beatriz Leonor Silveira Barbuy
• Grantee: Artur Vemado
• Host Institution: Instituto de Astronomia, Geofísica e Ciências Atmosféricas (IAG). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil
• Associated research grant: 10/50930-6 - Chemical evolution and galactic and extragalactic stellar populations, by means of spectroscopy and imaging, AP.TEM

Abstract

The work deals with the detailed analysis of high-resolution spectra, obtained at the Very Large Telescope (ESO), of 7 stars members of the bulge globular cluster NGC 6558. This cluster should be among the oldest in the Galaxy.