Abstract
We present a detailed analysis of the spatial distribution of the stellar populations in the Galactic globular cluster ω Centauri. Taking advantage of the large photometric catalogue published by Pancino et al., we confirm that metal-rich populations have a spatial distribution which is significantly different from the metal-poor dominant population. In particular (i) the different sub-populations have different centroids and (ii) the metal-poor population is elongated along the east–west direction, while the metal-rich populations are oriented along the orthogonal direction, i.e. north–south. The evidence presented here can partially explain the weird spatial metallicity segregation found by Jurcsik, and further supports the hypothesis that different subpopulations in ω Centauri might have had different origins.
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