Cool Stars 14 - Submitted Abstract # 116
This version created on 05 October 2006

A VLT/FLAMES survey of Galactic open clusters


Sofia Randich, INAF/Osservatorio di Arcetri
Paola Sestito, INAF/Osservatorio di Arcetri and Osservatorio di Palermo
Roberto Pallavicini, INAF/Osservatorio di Palermo
Angela Bragaglia, INAF/Osservatorio di Bologna
Livio Pastori, INAF/Osservatorio di Brera
Loredana Prisinzano, INAF/Osservatorio di Palermo
Paolo Spano', INAF/Osservatorio di Brera
Sandro Villanova, Universita' di Padova
Monica Tosi, INAF/Osservatorio di Bologna
Giovanni Carraro, Universita' di Padova
Eugenio Carretta, INAF/Osservatorio di Bologna
Giancarlo Pace, INAF/Osservatorio di Arcetri
Luca Pasquini, European Southern Observatory
Francesca Primas, European Southern Observatory
Gianpiero Tagliaferri, INAF/Osservatorio di Brera
Simone Zaggia, INAF/Osservatorio di Padova

We carried out a big VLT/FLAMES programme aimed at a detailed study of
13 Galactic open clusters spanning a large interval of ages (from 250
Myr to 7 Gyr) and Galactocentric distances (from 7 to 22 kpc).  The
main goals of the project are:  a) the determination of Fe, alpha, and
Fe-peak element abundances of evolved cluster members in order to put
constraints on models of formation and evolution of the Galactic disk;
and b)measurements of lithium abundances of unevolved cluster stars,
which provide a key tool to investigate mixing processes at work in
stellar interiors and their dependence on stellar mass and
metallicity.  We will present an overview of the project and discuss
our main results together with their implications.

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