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古老的富金属球状星团群:峰值颜色和峰值金属丰度趋势与宿主球体质量

Old Metal-rich Globular Cluster Populations: Peak Color and Peak Metallicity Trends with Mass of Host Spheroids

Valery V. Kravtsov

摘要:

我们解决的问题的影响因素的峰值颜色趋势的老富金属球状星团(MRGC)人口与质量的主机,早型星系和球状子系统的螺旋(球体)。在年龄效应很小或可忽略不计的假设下,色量趋势通常转换为金属量趋势。虽然对MRGC种群年龄的直接估计既不能排除也不能可靠地支持种群的年龄趋势,但关于球体形成时间的关键数据和其他间接证据在某种意义上暗示:球体越大,平均年龄越大。我们发现,MRGC种群的允许年龄趋势对其峰值颜色趋势的贡献可以达到约50%。在这种情况下,颜色趋势的可比值约为30%,这是由于α-元素比率系统变化的δ [α/Fe]约为0.1至0.2 dex,因为[α/Fe]比率与年龄之间存在相关性。因此,[Fe/H]比值的系统性变化在贡献者中可能不太重要,其范围比通过假设没有年龄趋势而推导出的相应范围低许多倍,即δ [Fe/H] ~ 0.1或甚至没有。

英文摘要:

We address the problem of the factors contributing to a peak color trend of old metal-rich globular cluster (MRGC) populations with mass of their hosts, early-type galaxies and spheroidal subsystems of spiral ones (spheroids). The color-mass trend is often converted to a metallicity-mass trend under the assumption that age effects are small or negligible. While direct estimates of the ages of MRGC populations neither can rule out nor reliably support the populations' age trend, key data on timing of the formation of spheroids and other indirect evidence imply it in the sense: the more massive spheroid the older on average its MRGC population. We show that the contribution of an allowable age trend of the MRGC populations to their peak color trend can achieve up to ~50 % or so. In this event the comparable value of the color trend, ~30 %, is due to alpha-element ratio systematic variations of the order of Delta[alpha/Fe] ~ 0.1 to 0.2 dex because of a correlation between the [alpha/Fe] ratios and age. Hence a systematic variation of exactly [Fe/H] ratios may turn out to be less significant among the contributors, and its range many times lower, i.e. of the order of Delta[Fe/H] ~ 0.1 or even none, than the corresponding range deduced by assuming no age trend.

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