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Exploring Multiple Stellar Populations in Globular Clusters with Euclid: A Theoretical Overview and Insights from NGC 6397

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Pith's one-line read Euclid's near-infrared filters can distinguish first- and second-population M-dwarfs in globular clusters through oxygen-sensitive molecular absorption, and in NGC 6397 the first population makes up about 30% of M-dwarfs while the second…

desk verdict First Euclid-based detection of multiple populations among M-dwarfs in NGC 6397, with the central claim independently supported by a NIRCam cross-check; the quantitative 1P fraction and [O/Fe] depletion are model-dependent and have a temperature-grid caveat. read the letter →

arxiv 2501.08135 v2 pith:6S7WN7HN submitted 2025-01-14 astro-ph.GA astro-ph.SR

A. P. Milone , G. Cordoni , A. F. Marino , V. Altomonte , E. Dondoglio , M. V. Legnardi , E. Bortolan , S. Lionetto
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This paper argues that Euclid's near-infrared photometry can separate the two stellar populations of globular clusters down to the M-dwarf regime, where wide-field surveys were previously blind. The mechanism is molecular: second-population stars are depleted in oxygen, so their cool atmospheres absorb less light in water-vapor bands that overlap Euclid's YE, JE, and HE filters, shifting their colors relative to first-population stars. In NGC 6397 the paper finds that about 30% of M-dwarfs belong to the first population, that second-population stars are depleted by roughly 0.3 dex in [O/Fe], and that both populations move isotropically. The wider payoff is that a single Euclid pointing can census stellar populations across about 28 arcminutes, a reach that HST and JWST observations cannot match.

What carries the argument

The central object is the oxygen-based molecular absorption, primarily H2O, in the atmospheres of M-dwarfs; its strength falls with decreasing [O/Fe] and its bands sit inside Euclid's JE and HE filters. The theoretical chain uses ATLAS12/SYNTHE synthetic spectra for 1P and 2P chemistries, integrated through Euclid passbands, applied to 13 Gyr Dartmouth isochrones, with BaSTI isochrones used for the abundance fit in NGC 6397. The operational diagnostic is the chromosome map ΔYE−HE versus ΔIE−JE, a two-color diagram in which stars are offset from the main sequence: it separates the two populations below the MS knee, where molecular absorption dominates the colors of cool dwarfs.

What would settle it

A decisive check would be to measure oxygen abundances spectroscopically for a sample of NGC 6397 M-dwarfs already classified as 1P and 2P by the Euclid chromosome map; if the median [O/Fe] difference between the groups is not about 0.3 dex, or if the color split persists among stars with identical [O/Fe], the molecular-absorption interpretation fails.

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Core claim

The central discovery is that oxygen-sensitive molecular absorption, mainly water vapor at wavelengths beyond about 13,000 Å, makes Euclid's near-infrared bands a direct population diagnostic for M-dwarfs: in synthetic spectra, second-population stars with lower oxygen are brighter in the HE band (and to a lesser extent JE) than first-population stars of equal luminosity, producing distinct sequences in HE versus YE−HE and HE versus IE−JE diagrams. In NGC 6397, the chromosome map built from these colors splits proper-motion-selected M-dwarfs into two groups, and simulated maps indicate that 1P stars constitute about 30% of the sample. The bulk of 2P stars are depleted by about 0.3 dex in [O/Fe] relative to an assumed 1P value of [O/Fe]=0.4, with roughly one-fifth of the 2P stars reaching [O/Fe] near 0.0; proper motions from Euclid, HST, and JWST show both populations with isotropic velocity distributions, and the 1P fraction stays nearly constant from the cluster center out to about 28 arcminutes.

Load-bearing premise

The result depends on the synthetic spectra: if the ATLAS12/SYNTHE models, including the molecular line data for H2O and other oxygen-bearing molecules, do not accurately predict the Euclid YE, JE, and HE fluxes of M-dwarfs for the assumed 1P and 2P chemistries, the color splits and the inferred 0.3 dex oxygen depletion would not follow.

Editorial extensions

If this is right

  • Euclid can identify multiple populations among M-dwarfs across a wide field in a single instrument, so radial population gradients can be measured out to tens of arcminutes in one pointing.
  • In NGC 6397, the 1P fraction is about 30% and nearly constant across stellar mass and radius, with at most a few-percent increase of 2P stars toward the center.
  • The approximately 0.3 dex [O/Fe] depletion derived from Euclid colors agrees with independent spectroscopic and NIRCam estimates, making Euclid a viable tool for relative light-element abundances in low-mass stars.
  • Both populations show isotropic proper motions with similar velocity dispersions, and the measured equipartition slope η=0.05±0.02 indicates only weak energy equipartition among the studied stars.
  • For metal-rich clusters, the IE band becomes strongly oxygen-sensitive in M-dwarfs, so Euclid color-magnitude diagrams should separate populations even more clearly at higher metallicity.

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Editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • If the molecular-absorption mechanism is robust, Euclid's wide-area M-dwarf census can be pushed into cluster outskirts and tidal tails, turning population ratios into a tracer of cluster dynamics and mass loss.
  • The assumed 1P [O/Fe]=0.4 sets the zero point for the depletion estimate; high-resolution spectroscopy suggesting a higher 1P oxygen content would shrink the quoted 0.3 dex toward about 0.2 dex, so cross-calibrating Euclid colors with spectroscopic oxygen abundances in a few clusters is the natural next test.
  • The same chromosome-map machinery applied to Euclid's all-sky data predicts that metal-rich clusters show larger IE−YE separations between populations than metal-poor clusters, a testable pattern across a large cluster sample.
  • A single-population synthetic cluster with realistic photometric errors should not reproduce the observed split; verifying this on multiple clusters would rule out reddening or binary artifacts as the source of the two groups.
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Summary. This paper investigates whether Euclid photometry can identify and characterize multiple stellar populations (1P and 2P) in globular clusters, focusing on M-dwarfs where oxygen-bearing molecular absorption (mainly water vapor) makes near-infrared colors sensitive to light-element abundance variations. The authors first present synthetic spectra and isochrones for metal-poor, intermediate, and metal-rich clusters, identifying the YE−HE and IE−JE colors and the corresponding chromosome map as the most promising diagnostics. They then analyze Euclid ERO photometry of NGC 6397, combining it with HST and JWST data for proper-motion selection and NIRCam-based population classification. The observational analysis reveals two distinct groups of M-dwarfs in the Euclid chromosome map, a 1P fraction of about 30%, an [O/Fe] depletion of roughly 0.3 dex for 2P stars relative to 1P stars, isotropic proper motions, and a 2P fraction that is nearly constant across the studied radial range of about 2–28 arcmin. The authors argue that this is the first wide-field census of multiple populations among M-dwarfs in a globular cluster.

Significance. If the quantitative results hold, the paper would establish Euclid as a new wide-field instrument for multiple-population studies, extending the HST/JWST-based M-dwarf work to much larger radial coverage and providing the first M-dwarf population census across 28 arcminutes. The central qualitative claim—that Euclid photometry separates 1P and 2P M-dwarfs—is supported by the cross-validation in Figure 12, where stars independently classified as 1P and 2P from the NIRCam chromosome map occupy distinct regions in the Euclid chromosome map. The work also benefits from careful data reduction, proper-motion cleaning, differential-reddening corrections, and an explicit discussion of the tension with the spectroscopic results of Lind et al. (2011). However, the quantitative outputs—the 30% 1P fraction and the 0.3 dex oxygen depletion—rest on synthetic models whose validity at the low effective temperatures of the faintest analyzed M-dwarfs is not demonstrated.

major comments (3)
  1. [Section 3; Figure 13] This concern does not undermine the qualitative identification of two populations, which is independently supported by the NIRCam cross-match in Figure 12, but it does affect the quantitative abundance claim in the abstract.
  2. [Section 4; Figure 10]
  3. [Section 5; Lind et al. discrepancy]
minor comments (5)
  1. [Figure 13] In the insets of the left and middle panels, the color difference is labeled δ(IE−EE); this appears to be a typo for δ(IE−JE).
  2. [Section 2.4] The text states that the reddening coefficients were adopted from Legnardi et al. (2023), while Table 1 lists values for the Euclid filters; a brief description of how these coefficients were computed for the Euclid bandpasses would improve reproducibility.
  3. [Section 4.1.1] The anisotropy parameter is defined as β=σT/σR−1, but the usual definition is β=1−σT/σR; please clarify the sign convention or adjust the definition so that the text matches the plotted quantity.
  4. [Section 2.3] The description of the frame alignment says the reference frame is anchored to the first-epoch images, but the master frame is later defined with the X-axis toward west; a brief clarification of the orientation convention would help.
  5. [General] The paper uses ‘Stetson’s and Libralato’s catalogs’ in several places; please ensure the citation style is consistent (e.g., Stetson et al. 2019 vs. Libralato et al. 2024) and that all datasets are explicitly listed in Table A.1.

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Two quantitative claims — 30% 1P fraction and 0.3 dex O-depletion — are best-match simulation inputs reported as findings; qualitative Euclid separation is independently supported.

  1. fitted input called prediction [Section 4, Figure 10 (right panel) and Section 5 summary bullet]
    "The right panel of Figure 10 displays the simulated ChM that provides the best match with the observations and is derived as in Zennaro et al. (2019). The 1P and 2P stars comprise the 31% and 69%, respectively, of the simulated stars and are colored teal and crimson, respectively."

    The 31%/69% split is the input of the simulation that is tuned to 'best match' the observed chromosome map, not an independently measured outcome. The abstract's statement that 'the 1P constitutes about 30% of the M-dwarfs' therefore restates the fitted fraction, so the quoted census is forced by the fitting procedure rather than predicted by the data.

  2. fitted input called prediction [Section 4, Figure 13; Section 5 summary bullet]
    "Our analysis indicates that isochrones with [O/Fe]=0.1 provide the best match for the bulk of 2P stars ... The observations indicate that the bulk of 2P stars are depleted by ∼0.3 dex in [O/Fe] compared to the 1P stars, which exhibit [O/Fe]=0.4."

    The quoted 0.3 dex depletion is the difference between the adopted 1P isochrone ([O/Fe]=0.4) and the 2P isochrone ([O/Fe]=0.1) selected as 'best match' in Figure 13. Choosing the best-matching template from a grid with 0.3-0.4 dex spacing makes the abundance offset an input of the matching procedure rather than an independent measurement. The zero point also depends on the assumed 1P [O/Fe]=0.4, which the paper itself acknowledges is about 0.3 dex lower than the value inferred by Lind et al. (2011), so the claimed depletion shifts with that assumption.

full rationale

The derivation chain is partially circular in its two headline quantitative numbers but not in its qualitative claim. The 31% 1P fraction is the input of the simulated chromosome map that is tuned to 'best match' the observed chromosome map in Section 4 (Figure 10), so the abstract's 'about 30%' is a fitted parameter restated as an empirical result. Likewise, the 'about 0.3 dex' [O/Fe] depletion is the separation between the adopted 1P isochrone ([O/Fe]=0.4) and the 2P isochrone ([O/Fe]=0.1) selected as the best match in Figure 13; the value is therefore set by the model grid rather than measured independently, and the paper itself notes that the assumed 1P oxygen zero point differs by about 0.3 dex from Lind et al. (2011), shifting the quoted depletion. The central qualitative claim that Euclid photometry separates two M-dwarf populations is not circular: it is checked against an independent NIRCam-selected 1P/2P classification in Figure 12 and against previous HST/JWST results, so the demonstrated capability of Euclid has independent empirical content. The 3500 K lower boundary of the ATLAS12 grid is a model-extrapolation concern for the faintest observed M-dwarfs, not a circularity, because it concerns physical accuracy rather than equivalence of inputs and outputs.

Assumptions & free parameters 4 free parameters · 4 assumptions · 0 invented entities

The central quantitative claims (30% 1P fraction, 0.3 dex O-depletion) are obtained by fitting simulated chromosome maps and isochrones to the observed data, so they carry several model-dependent free parameters. No new physical entities are introduced.

free parameters (4)
  • 1P fraction in simulated chromosome map = 31% 1P, 69% 2P
    The simulated ChM that best matches the observed NGC 6397 ChM in Figure 10 uses these fractions; the paper's claim of about 30% 1P comes from this fitted value, not an independent measurement.
  • 2P oxygen abundance [O/Fe] = 0.1 dex (bulk), 0.0 dex (extreme)
    BaSTI isochrones with [O/Fe]=0.1 best match the observed 2P fiducial color differences in Figure 13; the inferred depletion of about 0.3 dex depends on the assumed 1P [O/Fe]=0.4 zero point.
  • 1P oxygen abundance [O/Fe] = 0.4
    Adopted for 1P isochrones from alpha-enhanced models. The authors note this is about 0.3 dex lower than Lind et al. (2011), so the derived 2P O-depletion is sensitive to this choice.
  • Intrinsic pseudo-color broadening of 2P stars = not quoted
    The simulated ChM includes intrinsic broadening for 2P stars to reproduce the observed spread; the amplitude is effectively a free parameter in the Zennaro et al. (2019) matching procedure.
assumptions (4)
  • domain assumption The two populations seen in the Euclid chromosome map correspond to 1P and 2P stars with the assumed chemical differences (He and N enhanced, C and O depleted).
    The interpretation of the bimodal ChM as chemically distinct populations relies on the established multiple-population paradigm; this paper does not independently demonstrate the chemical cause.
  • domain assumption ATLAS12/SYNTHE synthetic spectra with the included molecular line lists accurately predict M-dwarf fluxes in the Euclid YE, JE, and HE bands.
    The theoretical predictions in Section 3 and the derived O-depletion values depend on the fidelity of these models, particularly H2O opacity beyond 13000 angstroms.
  • domain assumption Dartmouth and BaSTI isochrones with the adopted Y, [Fe/H], and [alpha/Fe] are valid for NGC 6397.
    Used to transform synthetic spectra into CMDs and to infer stellar masses and oxygen abundances; standard models but still an assumption.
  • domain assumption Differential reddening corrections with the adopted A/E(B-V) ratios and E(B-V)=0.18 adequately remove reddening variations.
    Section 2.4; residual reddening could mimic or distort population splits, and the corrections rely on the assumed reddening law.

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We investigate the behavior of multiple stellar populations in globular clusters (GCs) using photometric diagrams constructed with Euclid photometry. By employing synthetic spectra and isochrones that incorporate the chemical differences between first-population (1P) stars, resembling field stars, and second-population (2P) stars, enriched in helium and nitrogen but depleted in carbon and oxygen, we identify, from a theoretical perspective, the color-magnitude diagrams and the chromosome maps most effective at distinguishing these populations within GCs. Euclid photometry proves to be a powerful tool for identifying multiple populations among M-dwarfs, as 1P and 2P stars form distinct sequences in well-chosen photometric diagrams, driven by differences in the strength of oxygen-based molecular features, such as water vapor. To validate our theoretical findings, we analyzed Euclid photometry and astrometry of the GC NGC 6397, complemented by photometric and astrometric data from the Hubble Space Telescope and James Webb Space Telescope, enabling a comprehensive study of its stellar populations across a wide field of view. We find that the 1P constitutes about 30% of the M-dwarfs in NGC 6397, with the fraction of 1P stars remaining consistent across different stellar masses and throughout the entire field of view. 2P stars exhibit an [O/Fe] depletion of about 0.3 dex relative to 1P stars, and both populations display isotropic proper motions. This study represents the first comprehensive analysis of multiple populations among M-dwarfs across a wide field of view, demonstrating that Euclid photometry is a powerful instrument for investigating multiple populations in GCs.

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Figure 1
Figure 1. Stacked image of the Euclid images in the HE band (Libralato et al. 2024). The right panel shows a zoom of the studied field of view together with the footprints of the HST and JWST images used in this paper. The color scale is associated with the epoch as indicated by the color-bar on the right. The bottom panels compare the observations of a 30 square arcsec region obtained in the F606W and F814W bands of WFC/ACS,… view at source ↗
Figure 2
Figure 2. Map of differential reddening toward NGC 6397. The color levels in the map correspond to the relative variation in E(B−V), with the scale indicated on the right (left panel). The middle panel presents the IE vs. IE − YE CMD corrected for differential reddening. The right panel shows IE plotted against the displacement (in Euclid VIS pixel units) relative to the average motion of NGC 6397. Probable cluster members ar… view at source ↗
Figure 3
Figure 3. Proper-motion diagram of stars in the field A. The light-red circle encloses the bulk of cluster members (left). mF322W2 versus mF150W2 − mF322W2 CMD from NIRCam data. Black circles and light-red points mark probable the proper-motion selected cluster members and field stars, respectively. The error bars colored teal and crimson represent the typical photometric uncertainties of white dwarfs and MS cluster stars, re… view at source ↗
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Figure 4
Figure 4. Figure 4: mF606W vs. mF606W − mF814W (left) and mF814W vs. mF814W − mF150W2 (right) CMD of proper-motion selected cluster members. surface gravities (log(g) = 2–5) with a fixed microturbu￾lent velocity of 2 km/s. Molecular line data for species like C2, CN, CO, H2O, MgH, OH, SiH…
Figure 5
Figure 5. Figure 5: Left panels. Flux ratios were calculated for simulated spectra of stars with identical luminosity in the NIRCam F115W band but different chemical compositions. The 2P spectra are helium and nitrogen-enhanced while being carbon and oxygen-depleted compared to the 1P spe…
Figure 6
Figure 6. Figure 6: Magnitude difference between a 1P star and a star with the same F115W magnitude and a chemical composition that resembles 2P stars. The azure points correspond to stars with the same chemical composition as 1P stars but enhanced in helium (Y=0.33). The light-red points…
Figure 7
Figure 7. Figure 7: 13 Gyr isochrones from the Dartmouth database (Dotter et al. 2008) with [α/Fe]=0.4 and with [Fe/H]=−1.50 (top panels) and [Fe/H]=−0.75 (bottom panels). Isochrones with pristine helium content (Y=0.246 and Y=0.254 for the top- and bottom￾panels, respectively) are shown …
Figure 8
Figure 8. Figure 8: Top panels. Isochrones with different contents of helium, carbon, nitrogen, and oxygen in the HE vs. YE − HE (left) and HE vs. IE − JE (right) CMDs. The right panel shows the ChM for the M-dwarfs highlighted in the insets of the left and middle panels. All isochrones i…
Figure 9
Figure 9. Figure 9: CMDs of proper-motion selected stars in NGC 6397. The panels show the HE vs. IE − JE (left) and HE vs. YE − HE (right) diagram for cluster members. The photometry, derived from Euclid data (Libralato et al. 2024), has been corrected for the differential-reddening effec…
Figure 10
Figure 10. Figure 10: The left panel presents the observed ChM of NGC 6397 derived from Euclid photometry, while the right panel shows the corresponding simulated ChM. The right panel also includes the kernel-density distributions of ∆IE−JE and ∆YE−HE for both the observed ChM (black lines…
Figure 11
Figure 11. Figure 11: mF322W2 vs. mF606W −mF322W2 CMD of proper-motion-selected members of NGC 6397, constructed using NIRCam data. The inset displays the ∆F606W−F322W2 vs. ∆F814W−F150W2 ChM, where black points represent NGC 6397 stars, and the orange points correspond to a simulated ChM f…
Figure 12
Figure 12. Figure 12: Collection of ChMs for M dwarfs in NGC 6397. The leftmost panel reproduces the ∆F606W−F322W2 vs. ∆F814W−F150W2 ChM derived from NIRCam photometry, as presented in [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p013_12.png]
Figure 13
Figure 13. Figure 13: Reproductions of the CMDs (left and middle panels) and the ChM (right panel) for the proper-motion-selected NGC 6397 cluster members from Figures 9 and 10 are presented. Stars selected from the ChM are color-coded, with light-green and light￾red representing 1P and 2P…
Figure 15
Figure 15. Figure 15: Top panel. Velocity dispersion, σµ, as a function of the mF814W magnitude for MS, SGB, and RGB stars (black circles) and for white dwarfs (blue circles). Bottom panel. σµ against the logarithm of stellar mass for MS, SGB, and RGB stars. We used light-red colors to rep…
Figure 14
Figure 14. Figure 14: Proper-motion dispersion along the radial (top panel) and tangential direction (middle panel) as a function of the distance from the cluster center. The lower panel shows the anisotropy parameter against the radial distance. The vertical lines mark the half-light radi…
Figure 16
Figure 16. Figure 16: The left panel presents the Hess diagram of the ∆YE−HE vs. ∆IE−JE ChM constructed from Euclid photometry for NGC 6397 stars. The stars were selected based on positional displacements between the catalogs of Stetson et al. (2019) and Libralato et al. (2024). For compar…
Figure 17
Figure 17. Figure 17: ChM of NGC 6397 MS stars in the central field from HST photometry. The ChM shown in the bottom panel includes the MS binaries (starred symbols), whereas the top-left panel is a zoom on the ChM region occupied by single stars. Top-right panel shows the simulated ChM fo…
Figure 18
Figure 18. Figure 18: Fraction of 2P stars as a function of radial distance from the cluster center. The radial scale is provided both in units of the half-light radius (Rh = 2.9 arcmin; 2010 version of the Harris 1996, catalog) and in arcminutes. Diamonds, crosses, and large dots represen…

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