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LMC、SMC和天炉座星系球状星团样品的表面亮度轮廓

Surface Brightness Profiles for a sample of LMC, SMC and Fornax galaxy Globular Clusters

Eva Noyola, Karl Gebhardt

摘要:

我们利用哈勃太空望远镜的档案图像来测量银河系卫星星系周围的球状星团的中心表面亮度轮廓。我们报告的结果,21个集群周围的LMC,5周围的SMC,和4周围的天炉座矮星系。使用最近开发的基于测量集成光的技术获得的配置文件,该技术在广泛的模拟数据集上进行了测试。我们的结果表明,对于70%的样本,我们的轮廓的中心测光点比以前使用恒星计数测量的亮度更高,偏差高达2 mag/arcsec ^[2]。大约40%的天体具有偏离平坦中心核的中心轮廓,中心对数斜率连续分布在-0.2和-1.2之间。这些结果进行了比较,发现为样本的星系团使用相同的方法。我们证实了已知的相关性,其中年轻的集群往往有较小的核心半径,我们发现,他们也有更明亮的中心表面亮度值。这似乎表明,球状星团可能是相对集中的,而具有扩展的扁平核心的轮廓可能不是理论模型中初始轮廓的理想选择。

英文摘要:

We use Hubble Space Telescope archival images to measure central surface brightness profiles of globular clusters around satellite galaxies of the Milky Way. We report results for 21 clusters around the LMC, 5 around the SMC, and 4 around the Fornax dwarf galaxy. The profiles are obtained using a recently developed technique based on measuring integrated light, which is tested on an extensive simulated dataset. Our results show that for 70% of the sample, the central photometric points of our profiles are brighter than previous measurements using star counts with deviations as large as 2 mag/arcsec^2. About 40% of the objects have central profiles deviating from a flat central core, with central logarithmic slopes continuously distributed between -0.2 and -1.2. These results are compared with those found for a sample of Galactic clusters using the same method. We confirm the known correlation in which younger clusters tend to have smaller core radii, and we find that they also have brighter central surface brightness values. This seems to indicate that globular clusters might be born relatively concentrated, and that a profile with extended flat cores might not be the ideal choice for initial profiles in theoretical models.

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