A new catalog of homogenised absorption line indices for Milky Way globular clusters from high-resolution integrated spectroscopy

Hak-Sub Kim, Jaeil Cho, Ray M. Sharples, Alexandre Vazdekis, Michael A. Beasley, Suk-Jin Yoon

Published 2016-10-25Version 1

We perform integrated spectroscopy of 24 Galactic globular clusters. Spectra are observed from one core radius for each cluster with a high wavelength resolution of ~2.0 A FWHM. In combination with two existing data sets from Puzia et al. (2002) and Schiavon et al. (2005), we construct a large database of Lick spectral indices for a total of 53 Galactic globular clusters with a wide range of metallicities, -2.4 < [Fe/H] < 0.1, and various horizontal-branch morphologies. The empirical index-to-metallicity conversion relationships are provided for the 20 Lick indices for the use of deriving metallicities for remote, unresolved stellar systems.