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红外Ca II三重态作为金属丰度指示剂

The Infrared Ca II triplet as metallicity indicator

Ricardo Carrera, Carme Gallart, Elena Pancino, Robert Zinn

摘要:

通过对银河系29个疏散星团和球状星团中近500颗RGB星的观测,我们研究了红外Ca II三重态(8498、8542和8662)在13 $\leq$年龄/Gyr $\leq$ 0.25和金属丰度$-2.2\leq$ [Fe/H] $\leq$ +0.47范围内的行为。这些是最广泛的年龄和金属丰度的行为的钙II三线已被调查在一个均匀的方式。我们报告的第一个经验研究的变化的CaII三线强度,对于给定的金属丰度,相对于光度。我们发现在Luminosity- $Σ$ Ca平面上由每个簇定义的序列不是精确的线性。然而,当只观测到小星等间隔的恒星时,序列可以被认为是线性的。我们在三个金属丰度标度上研究了Ca Ⅱ三重线。虽然在\citet{cg97}和\citet{ki03}标度中发现了约化等效宽度($W'_V$或$W'_I$)与金属丰度之间的线性相关性,但当采用\citet{zw84}标度时,需要添加二阶项。我们调查的年龄从我们的样本所涵盖的广泛的年龄范围的作用。我们发现,年龄对最终的关系有微弱的影响。最后,这里导出的关系被用来估计三个研究不足的疏散星团的金属丰度:伯克利39,Trumpler 5和Collinder 110。对于后者,这里导出的金属丰度是第一个可用的光谱估计。

英文摘要:

From observations of almost 500 RGB stars in 29 Galactic open and globular clusters, we have investigated the behaviour of the infrared Ca II triplet (8498, 8542 and 8662 Å) in the age range 13$\leq$Age/Gyr$\leq$0.25 and the metallicity range $-2.2\leq$ [Fe/H] $\leq$+0.47. These are the widest ranges of ages and metallicities in which the behaviour of the Ca II triplet lines has been investigated in a homogeneous way. We report the first empirical study of the variation of the CaII triplet lines strength, for given metallicities, with respect to luminosity. We find that the sequence defined by each cluster in the Luminosity-$Σ$Ca plane is not exactly linear. However, when only stars in a small magnitude interval are observed, the sequences can be considered as linear. We have studied the the Ca II triplet lines on three metallicities scales. While a linear correlation between the reduced equivalent width ($W'_V$ or $W'_I$) versus metallicity is found in the \citet{cg97} and \citet{ki03} scales, a second order term needs to be added when the \citet{zw84} scale is adopted. We investigate the role of age from the wide range of ages covered by our sample. We find that age has a weak influence on the final relationship. Finally, the relationship derived here is used to estimate the metallicities of three poorly studied open clusters: Berkeley 39, Trumpler 5 and Collinder 110. For the latter, the metallicity derived here is the first spectroscopic estimate available.

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