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球状星团NGC 5466的测光:红巨星和蓝离散星

Photometry of the Globular Cluster NGC 5466: Red Giants and Blue Stragglers

Nassissie Fekadu, Eric L. Sandquist, Michael Bolte

摘要:

我们目前的宽视场BVI测光约11,500颗恒星的低金属量集群NGC 5466。我们第一次探测到了红巨星分支隆起,尽管它比预期的要暗至少0.2等。红巨星的数量(相对于主序星的关闭星)与延世-耶鲁和泰拉莫星系群的恒星模型非常吻合,比延世-里贾纳星系群的模型略高。这进一步证明红巨星与主序星的异常大比例与星团金属丰度无关。我们讨论了来自不同研究小组的理论预测,发现氦扩散和强极限库仑相互作用的包含或排除可能是部分原因。我们还研究了动力学历史的指标:质量函数指数和蓝离散频率。NGC 5466的质量函数非常浅,与大质量损失和最近发现的潮汐尾相一致。蓝色离散星的样本比HB或RGB星更集中。我们没有看到任何证据表明,在距离中心很远的地方,蓝离散星的频率会上升。动力学摩擦时间尺度表明,如果星团目前的密度结构在其历史的大部分时间里都存在,那么离散星应该更加集中。NGC 5466的中心密度也比类似光度的星团低得多。尽管如此,蓝离散星的特定频率,使它正确的频率-集群M_V关系观察到的其他集群。

英文摘要:

We present wide-field BVI photometry for about 11,500 stars in the low-metallicity cluster NGC 5466. We have detected the red giant branch bump for the first time, although it is at least 0.2 mag fainter than expected relative to the turnoff. The number of red giants (relative to main sequence turnoff stars) is in excellent agreement with stellar models from the Yonsei-Yale and Teramo groups, and slightly high compared to Victoria-Regina models. This adds to evidence that an abnormally large ratio of red giant to main-sequence stars is not correlated with cluster metallicity. We discuss theoretical predictions from different research groups and find that the inclusion or exclusion of helium diffusion and strong limit Coulomb interactions may be partly responsible. We also examine indicators of dynamical history: the mass function exponent and the blue straggler frequency. NGC 5466 has a very shallow mass function, consistent with large mass loss and recently-discovered tidal tails. The blue straggler sample is significantly more centrally concentrated than the HB or RGB stars. We see no evidence of an upturn in the blue straggler frequency at large distances from the center. Dynamical friction timescales indicate that the stragglers should be more concentrated if the cluster's present density structure has existed for most of its history. NGC 5466 also has an unusually low central density compared to clusters of similar luminosity. In spite of this, the specific frequency of blue stragglers that puts it right on the frequency -- cluster M_V relation observed for other clusters.

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