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In nine of 22 globular clusters the most chemically extreme second-population stars fail to reach the AGB, and anomalous stars skip it even more often.

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load-bearing objection Solid largest homogeneous AGB multiple-population census with a transparent manqué criterion; nine clusters show extreme 2P underrepresentation, plus first anomalous-AGB and AGB iron-spread results. the 2 major comments →

arxiv 2607.08376 v1 pith:DX3KICTM submitted 2026-07-09 astro-ph.GA

Multiple populations along the asymptotic giant branch: a Gaia+APOGEE study of 22 Galactic globular clusters

Emanuele Dondoglio , A. P. Milone , A. F. Marino , G. Cordoni , M. V. Legnardi , T. Ziliotto , R. Asa'd , A. Mastrobuono-Battisti
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F. Muratore E. Bortolan E. P. Lagioia M. Tailo
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classification astro-ph.GA
keywords globular clustersmultiple populationsasymptotic giant branchAGB-manquéAPOGEEGaialight-element abundancesType II clusters
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The pith

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This paper asks whether every star in a globular cluster climbs the asymptotic giant branch, or whether some of the chemically extreme second-generation stars skip that phase. Combining Gaia photometry that cleanly isolates AGB stars with APOGEE light-element abundances for 22 clusters, the authors separate first- and second-population stars on both the AGB and the red-giant branch. They introduce a quantitative test: if the most extreme magnesium and aluminium (or carbon and nitrogen) values on the AGB are smaller than on the RGB at the 1-sigma level, the cluster is classified as AGB-manqué. Nine clusters meet the test. The same comparison shows that the iron- and s-process-enhanced "anomalous" populations in NGC 6656 and ω Centauri are missing their most extreme members even more severely. Population fractions on the AGB still decline with cluster mass, matching the pattern seen on the RGB and horizontal branch. The work therefore supplies the largest homogeneous spectroscopic census of AGB multiple populations to date and places a firm observational limit on which stars can reach the AGB.

Core claim

In nine of the 22 clusters the most chemically extreme second-population stars are significantly under-represented on the AGB relative to the RGB, satisfying the authors' criterion that the abundance extents in both light-element axes are smaller on the AGB at the 1-sigma level; anomalous stars in the two Type-II clusters show an even stronger deficit.

What carries the argument

The quantitative AGB-manqué criterion: after shifting AGB abundances so that first-population medians match the RGB, the 98th-percentile extents of the light-element distributions (Mg/Al or C/N) must both be smaller on the AGB than on the RGB at 1-sigma significance.

Load-bearing premise

The measured abundance offsets between RGB and AGB stars are treated as pure atmospheric or pipeline artefacts that can be removed by a rigid shift without erasing or inventing real population differences.

What would settle it

A homogeneous re-analysis of the same stars with an independent abundance pipeline that eliminates the RGB-to-AGB offsets; if the extreme second-population stars reappear on the AGB once the offsets vanish, the manqué classification collapses.

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If this is right

  • AGB population fractions can now be used as a mass-loss and helium diagnostic complementary to horizontal-branch morphology.
  • Anomalous populations in Type-II clusters must form with higher helium or experience stronger RGB mass loss than ordinary second-population stars.
  • Iron spreads among first-population stars persist into the AGB, so any formation model must keep iron variations intact through the most advanced evolutionary stages.
  • Radial profiles of AGB second-population fractions in NGC 2808 and NGC 7078 invert the usual central concentration, requiring either new dynamical processing or larger samples to confirm.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • If the manqué signature is driven by helium, the extreme second-population helium mass fractions implied by the missing AGB stars should match those already inferred from the horizontal branch in the same clusters.
  • The same Gaia+APOGEE selection can be applied to the remaining APOGEE clusters to enlarge the sample beyond 22 and test whether the nine-cluster fraction is universal.
  • Clusters that show no manqué signature may still host a small fraction of extreme stars that skip the AGB; larger AGB samples would reveal whether the phenomenon is continuous rather than binary.

Editorial analysis

A structured set of objections, weighed in public.

Desk editor's note, referee report, simulated authors' rebuttal, and a circularity audit.

Referee Report

2 major / 5 minor

Summary. The paper combines Gaia DR3 photometry with APOGEE DR17 light-element abundances to isolate AGB members in 22 Galactic globular clusters and to separate first- and second-population (and, where present, anomalous) stars. Population fractions are measured for the largest AGB sample to date; the 1P fraction declines with cluster mass. A quantitative AGB-manqué criterion is introduced by comparing the 98th-percentile abundance extents of RGB and AGB stars after a rigid 1P-based offset correction; nine clusters satisfy the criterion that the most extreme 2P stars are underrepresented on the AGB. First spectroscopic characterizations of AGB multiple populations are given for eight clusters, anomalous AGB stars are mapped in NGC 6656 and ω Centauri, radial AGB 2P trends are presented for four clusters, and an intrinsic [Fe/H] spread among 1P AGB stars is reported in NGC 5272.

Significance. If the classification holds, the work supplies a homogeneous spectroscopic census of AGB multiple populations across a large GC sample, a reproducible empirical definition of AGB-manqué, and the first spectroscopic view of anomalous AGB subpopulations and of the extended-1P iron spread on the AGB. These results constrain the roles of helium and RGB mass loss in determining which stars reach the AGB and extend known multiple-population phenomenology to the most evolved phase studied so far. Strengths include the transparent 98th-percentile + bootstrap criterion, Wilson intervals for small-N fractions, and the explicit tabulation of extents and fractions (Table A.1).

major comments (2)
  1. Section 3.1 and Appendix B: the rigid RGB-to-AGB offsets (up to ~0.15 dex in [Al/Fe], ~0.19 dex in [Fe/H]) measured from 1P medians are treated as pure atmospheric/pipeline systematics. Because the manqué classification rests on post-correction extents, the manuscript should demonstrate more explicitly that the extreme 2P tail is already missing in the uncorrected diagrams for the nine manqué clusters (as is visually true for NGC 6205 and NGC 0288) and should quantify how often the 1σ classification flips when the offset is varied within its bootstrap uncertainty. Without that check the central claim remains vulnerable to residual differential systematics between evolutionary phases.
  2. Section 5 and Table A.1: several of the nine manqué classifications rest on AGB samples of N ≤ 6 (e.g., NGC 1904, NGC 5053, NGC 6171). The dual-axis 1σ criterion and Wilson intervals are appropriate, but the paper should state the false-positive rate expected under the null of identical RGB/AGB parent distributions for these sample sizes, or at least flag the lowest-N cases as tentative. This does not invalidate the overall result but is load-bearing for the precise count of nine clusters.
minor comments (5)
  1. Figure 8 and Section 4: the unexpected outer rise of AGB 2P fractions in NGC 2808 and NGC 7078 is intriguing but rests on very few outer AGB stars; the text already notes the need for larger samples—consider moving the strongest language about “opposite to the RGB” into a more cautious formulation.
  2. Appendix B: the mild metallicity trend of the Mg/Al offsets and the ΔTeff trend of the [Fe/H] offsets are useful; a short quantitative statement of the Spearman coefficients would help the reader assess their significance.
  3. Section 3.2–3.3: the AI/AII labeling for anomalous stars is clear, but a one-sentence reminder that these labels are not equivalent to 1P/2P would avoid confusion for readers less familiar with Type II clusters.
  4. Table A.1: the dual use of X = [Mg/Fe] or [C/Fe]STD (and Y = [Al/Fe] or [N/Fe]STD) is explained in the text; adding a footnote to the table column headers would make the table self-contained.
  5. Figure 1 and Appendix A: the magnitude cut that excludes the bright AGB–RGB merger region is sensible; stating the typical G limit for each cluster (or a uniform criterion) would improve reproducibility.

Circularity Check

1 steps flagged

No significant circularity: AGB-manqué criterion and population fractions are direct empirical comparisons of observed abundance extents and star counts; self-citations supply prior RGB tags and baselines but do not force the new AGB results.

specific steps
  1. self citation load bearing [Section 3.1 (and 3.3 for ω Cen)]
    "We know they are 1P stars from Dondoglio et al. (2025), who cross-matched 1P and 2P stars identified from photometric diagrams with the APOGEE dataset, finding that they cluster around this threshold... To tag the different populations in the RGB, we rely on the identification performed by Dondoglio et al. (2026..."

    RGB population labels in a subset of clusters are imported from the authors' own prior papers rather than re-derived ab initio from the present APOGEE sample alone. This is a minor convenience, not load-bearing for the AGB extents or manqué criterion, which are measured independently on the new AGB stars.

full rationale

The paper's central claims rest on new Gaia+APOGEE measurements of AGB stars in 22 clusters. 1P/2P (and AI/AII) separation uses light-element diagrams after a rigid offset correction measured solely on the 1P median; extents E_X and E_Y are then the error-subtracted 98th-percentile distances from that median, with bootstrap that already includes offset uncertainty (Section 5). The manqué classification is the empirical statement that both extents are smaller on the AGB than on the RGB at 1σ; it is not a fitted parameter renamed as a prediction, nor is it defined in terms of the fractions. Population fractions are simple binomial counts (Wilson intervals). Radial trends and the iron-width W_1P[Fe/H] are likewise direct measurements. Self-citations (Dondoglio et al. 2025/2026 for RGB tagging in a few clusters, Lagioia et al. 2021 for core fractions) provide convenient prior labels and comparison points, but the AGB abundance distributions, extents, and fractions are independently derived from the present sample and remain consistent with visual inspection of the uncorrected diagrams. No uniqueness theorem, ansatz, or self-definitional loop is invoked. The derivation chain is therefore self-contained against the data; the mild self-citation usage warrants only a score of 1.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

2 free parameters · 4 axioms · 0 invented entities

The central claims rest on standard stellar-evolution and abundance-analysis assumptions plus a small set of analysis choices (percentile thresholds, offset corrections, magnitude cuts). No new physical entities are postulated; free parameters are limited to the empirical offsets and the 98th-percentile definition of abundance extent.

free parameters (2)
  • RGB-to-AGB abundance offsets (Mg, Al, Fe)
    Measured from 1P medians and applied as rigid shifts; values range from −0.08 to +0.15 dex (Mg/Al) and up to 0.19 dex (Fe). Treated as free corrections rather than predicted quantities.
  • 98th-percentile definition of abundance extent E[X], E[Y]
    Chosen threshold used to decide whether AGB extents are smaller than RGB extents; bootstrap uncertainties are reported but the percentile itself is a free analysis choice.
axioms (4)
  • domain assumption Light-element abundance patterns ([Mg/Fe]–[Al/Fe] or verticalized [C/Fe]–[N/Fe]) cleanly separate first- and second-population stars on both the RGB and AGB.
    Standard in the multiple-populations literature; invoked throughout Section 3.
  • ad hoc to paper The observed RGB–AGB abundance offsets are atmospheric or pipeline systematics that can be removed by a rigid shift without erasing true population differences.
    Explicitly adopted in Section 3.1 and Appendix B; physical origin left open.
  • domain assumption AGB-manqué stars arise when envelope mass on the horizontal branch is ≲ 10^{-2} M_⊙, driven by higher helium and/or larger RGB mass loss.
    Standard stellar-evolution interpretation cited from Greggio & Renzini (1990) and subsequent works; used to interpret the nine-cluster classification.
  • domain assumption Gaia CMD selection plus radial-velocity membership isolates genuine cluster AGB stars free of field contamination and RGB interlopers.
    Section 2; magnitude cuts are imposed where sequences merge.

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We present an investigation of multiple stellar populations along the asymptotic giant branch (AGB) in 22 globular clusters (GCs), exploiting APOGEE spectroscopy combined with AGB selection based on Gaia color-magnitude diagrams. Using light-element abundances ([C/Fe], [N/Fe], [Mg/Fe], and [Al/Fe]), we disentangle first- (1P) and second- (2P) populations along the AGB. We derive their fractions in the AGB for the largest sample of GCs to date, finding that the 1P fraction decreases with cluster mass, as in other evolutionary phases. By comparing AGB and red giant branch (RGB), we define a quantitative criterion to identify clusters affected by the AGB-manque phenomenon. We find that in nine GCs the most chemically extreme 2P stars are underrepresented along the AGB, indicating that they fail to ascend this phase. Our classification is in agreement with previous studies and provides the first spectroscopic characterization of AGB multiple populations in eight GCs. We derive, for the first time, the radial distribution of AGB 2P stars in four clusters. While NGC5024 and omegaCentauri show trends consistent with the RGB, NGC2808 and NGC7078 may exhibit an unexpected increase of the AGB 2P fraction at large radii, opposite to the RGB stars. We present the first detailed spectroscopic characterization of anomalous AGB populations in NGC6656 and omegaCentauri, i.e. the populations enhanced in heavy elements compared to the bulk of 1P and 2P. In both clusters, anomalous stars show a more pronounced AGB-manque signature than 2P stars, with the fraction of the most Mg-poor and Al-rich AGB dropping compared to the RGB, possibly due to enhanced He and/or increased RGB mass loss. We report the first detection of iron inhomogeneities among 1P AGB stars in NGC5272, with a spread consistent with the RGB one. This extends the presence of iron variations to the most evolved stellar phase studied so far.

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Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2607.08376 by A. F. Marino, A. Mastrobuono-Battisti, A. P. Milone, E. Bortolan, Emanuele Dondoglio, E. P. Lagioia, F. Muratore, G. Cordoni, M. Tailo, M. V. Legnardi, R. Asa'd, T. Ziliotto.

Figure 2
Figure 2. Figure 2: Panel a: [Al/Fe] vs. [Mg/Fe] of RGB (black dots) and AGB (teal triangles) stars of NGC 6205. The black and teal lines represent the median [Mg/Fe] and [Al/Fe] of the 1P stars in the RGB and AGB. Panel b: same diagram corrected for offsets (see text for details), with the brown dot-dashed line separating 1P and 2P stars (below and above, respectively). Panels c1 and c2: [Mg/Fe] and [Al/Fe] kernel density di… view at source ↗
Figure 3
Figure 3. Figure 3: Panels a1 and a2: G vs. [N/Fe] diagram and [N/Fe] kernel density distribution of RGB and AGB stars in NGC 6121. Panels b1 and b2: same but referred to the verticalized [N/Fe]STD (see text for details). Panels c1, c2, d1, and d2: same as before but applied to the [C/Fe] abundances. RGB bump. This effect can hinder a proper multiple populations identification over a wide magnitude range. To correct for this … view at source ↗
Figure 4
Figure 4. Figure 4: [Mg/Fe] vs. [Al/Fe] diagram of 15 GCs, corrected for offsets as in Section 2 (first three rows), and [N/Fe]STD vs. [C/Fe]STD of 47Tucanae, NGC 6121, NGC 6171, NGC 6218, and NGC 6838. The notation is the same as [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p005_4.png] view at source ↗
Figure 5
Figure 5. Figure 5: Panel a1: G vs. [(C+N+O)/Fe] diagram of RGB and AGB stars in NGC 6656. Blue and red lines indicate the CNO-poor and CNO-rich boundaries (see text for details). Panel a2: [(C+N+O)/Fe] kernel density distribution of RGB (black) and AGB (teal) stars. Panels b1 e b2: same as a1 and a2 but for the verticalized [(C+N+O)/Fe]STD. The vertical brown dot-dashed line in panel b2 separate canonical (left) and anomalou… view at source ↗
Figure 6
Figure 6. Figure 6: Panel a: G vs. GBP–GRP CMD of ωCentauri. Black dots indicate RGB stars, while the selected AGB stars lie within the teal shaded area. Red lines indicate AGB isochrones from [Fe/H] –1.75 to –1.30 dex. The black line separates the magnitude range considered in our analysis from the one that we excluded (gray shaded area). Panel b: [Al/Fe] vs. [Fe/H] of RGB (black dots) and AGB (teal triangles) below G = 13 m… view at source ↗
Figure 7
Figure 7. Figure 7: Top: differences between the 1P-fractions on the AGB and the RGB for Type I clusters and for canonical stars of Type II clusters (teal), and difference of AI-fractions for the anomalous stars of Type II clusters (red). The brown vertical line indicates the zero level. Bottom: FAGB 1P vs log(Min/M⊙) from this work, from Lagioia et al. (2021), and averaging the two datasets (teal, gray, and empty triangles, … view at source ↗
Figure 9
Figure 9. Figure 9: [Al/Fe] vs. [Mg/Fe] of NGC 5272 (left) and NGC 6205 (right). Brown lines indicate the median 1P abundances. Both plots are associated with a top and right panel, representing the RGB and AGB extent with gray and teal shaded bands, respec￾tively. Black points show the 98th percentile of each distribution (see text for details). 5. AGB-manqué: when and how Figures 4 reveals that in some of our GCs the most c… view at source ↗
Figure 8
Figure 8. Figure 8: F2P vs. radius in NGC 2808, NGC 5024, ωCentauri, and NGC 7078. RGB and AGB measurements from this work are represented with empty black dots and teal triangles. Filled grey dots and triangles indicate RGB and AGB fractions from the lit￾erature. The brown vertical lines indicate the core, half-mass, and tidal radius from Harris (1996). An horizontal line is associ￾ated to each measurement, highlighting thei… view at source ↗
Figure 10
Figure 10. Figure 10: AGB vs RGB extent of X=[Mg/Fe], [C/Fe]STD (left), and Y=[Al/Fe], [N/Fe]STD (middle). The brown dot-dashed line indicates the one-on-one relation. The right panel portrays the ratio between E AGB Y and E RGB Y vs. the AGB-to-RGB 1P fraction difference. Red dots indicate the GCs with AGB-manqué signatures, while red starred symbols refer to the anomalous populations. GCs; left panel) and Y = [Al/Fe] (or [N/… view at source ↗
Figure 11
Figure 11. Figure 11: Panel a: [Al/Fe] vs. [Fe/H] of RGB (black dots) and AGB (teal triangles) of NGC 5272. Black and teal vertical lines indicate their median [Fe/H] values, respectively. Panel b: same as panel a, but corrected for RGB-to-AGB offsets. Panels c1 and c2: kernel density distribution of 1P (continuous) and 2P (dot-dashed) in the RGB and AGB phase, respectively. Panel d: radial distribution of W1P [Fe/H] combining… view at source ↗

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