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制约恒星星族年龄和金属丰度的色对

Colour pairs for constraining the age and metallicity of stellar populations

Zhongmu Li, Zhanwen Han

摘要:

利用一个广泛应用的恒星星族合成模型,研究了AB系色对打破恒星年龄-金属丰度简并的能力,并给出了对两个恒星族参数(年龄和金属丰度)的约束。提出了与u、B、g、V、r、R、i、I、z、J、H和K带有关的AB系统颜色的相对年龄和金属丰度灵敏度,并用不确定性参数(UP)方法量化了各种颜色对打破年龄-金属丰度简并的能力。我们的结果表明,几对颜色可以用来限制上述两个恒星的人口参数。这对于探索遥远星系的恒星星族将是非常有用的。详细地说,[(r-K),(u-R)]和[(r-K),(u-r)]色对是估算恒星年龄和金属丰度的最佳色对。他们可以约束两个恒星人口参数平均年龄的不确定性小于3.89 Gyr和金属丰度的不确定性小于0.34德克斯典型的颜色不确定性。一些其他颜色对,例如[(R-K),(u-R)],[(I-K),(u-R)],[(R-K),(u-r)]和[(i-J),(u-R)],也可以用于约束这两个参数。作为一个整体,我们的研究结果表明,有关的颜色都UBVRIJHK和ugriz的幅度是远远优于任何UBVRIJHK颜色或ugriz颜色打破众所周知的简并。研究结果还表明,斯隆数字巡天(SDSS)和2微米全天巡天(2 MASS)观测到的星系的恒星年龄和金属丰度可以通过测光数据进行估算。它还表明,颜色可以与线指数一起使用,以测量恒星的人口参数。

英文摘要:

Using a widely used stellar population synthesis model, we study the ability of using pairs of AB system colours to break the well-known stellar age--metallicity degeneracy and give constraints on the two stellar-population parameters (age and metallicity). The relative age and metallicity sensitivities of AB system colours that relate to u, B, g, V, r, R, i, I, z, J, H, and K bands are presented, and the abilities of various colour pairs for breaking the age--metallicity degeneracy are quantified by an uncertainty parameter (UP) method. Our results suggest that a few pairs of colours can be used to constrain the two above stellar-population parameters. This will be very useful for exploring the stellar populations of distant galaxies. In detail, colour pairs [(r-K), (u-R)] and [(r-K), (u-r)] are shown to be the best pairs for estimating stellar ages and metallicities. They can constrain two stellar-population parameters on average with age uncertainties less than 3.89 Gyr and metallicity uncertainties less than 0.34 dex for typical uncertainties in colours. Some other colour pairs, such as [(R-K), (u-R)], [(I-K), (u-R)], [(R-K), (u-r)] and [(i-J), (u-R)], can possibly be used for constraining the two parameters, too. As a whole, our results suggest that colours relating to both UBVRIJHK and ugriz magnitudes are much better than either UBVRIJHK colours or ugriz colours for breaking the well-known degeneracy. The results also show that the stellar ages and metallicities of galaxies observed by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) and the Two-Micron All-Sky Survey (2MASS) can be estimated via photometry data. It is also shown that the colours can be used in conjunction with line indices to measure stellar-population parameters.

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