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Piercarlo Bonifacio
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2005
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E. Caffau
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We present here the first measurements of sulphur abundances in extragalactic stars. We make use of high resolution spectra, obtained with UVES at the ESO 8.2 m Kueyen telescope, of three giants of the Globular Cluster Terzan 7, which belongs to the Sagittarius dwarf galaxy. We measure the sulphur abundances using the lines of S I multiplet 1. The S/Fe ratios for all three stars are nearly solar, thus considerably lower than what is found in Galactic stars of comparable iron content ([Fe/H] ~ -0.50). This finding is in keeping with the abundances of other alpha-chain elements in this cluster and in Sagittarius and other dSphs in general. These low alpha-chain elements to iron ratios suggest that Sagittarius and its Globular Clusters have experienced a low or bursting star-formation rate. Our sulphur abundances imply <log (S/O)> = -1.61 which is comparable to what is found in many H II regions of similar oxygen content, and is slightly lower than the solar value (log (S/O)sun = -1.51). These are also the first measurements of sulphur abundances in a Globular Cluster, thus a direct comparison of Terzan 7 and Galactic Globular Clusters is not possible yet. However our analysis suggests that the lines of S I multiplet 1 should be measurable for other Globular Clusters at least down to a metallicity ~ -1.5.
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