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利用Keck Laser -导引星自适应光学研究拱星团的自行

The proper motion of the Arches cluster with Keck Laser-Guide Star Adaptive Optics

Andrea Stolte, Andrea M. Ghez, Mark Morris, Jessica R. Lu, Wolfgang Brandner, Keith Matthews

摘要:

我们提出了第一次测量的自行车的年轻,紧凑的拱门集群附近的银河系中心的近红外自适应光学(AO)的数据与最近委托的激光导星(LGS)在凯克10米望远镜。LGS-AO获得的出色的天体测量精度为与4.3年前获得的VLT/NAOS-CONICA数据进行详细比较提供了基础。在4.3年的基线上,测得拱门群相对于野外种群的空间位移为24.0 +/- 2.2 mas,对应于在8 kpc距离处的5.6 +/- 0.5 mas/yr或212 +/- 29 km/s的自行。结合已知的星系团的视线速度,我们推导出一个232 +/- 30公里/秒的拱相对于场的三维空间运动。拱门的大自行不能用内星系棒势中气体云中观察到的任何闭合轨道族来解释,但与拱门处于从x1到x2轨道的过渡轨道上是一致的。我们调查了云云碰撞作为拱门集群的可能起源。星系团轨道与内星系势的积分表明,只有当星系团的真实GC距离非常接近其投影距离时,它才能在距离超大质量黑洞10 pc的范围内通过。因此,在GC内部几个秒差距的年轻恒星星族中,来自拱门星团的年轻恒星的贡献似乎越来越不可能。三维速度测量和轨道分析提供了第一个观测证据,表明拱门状星团不会螺旋进入GC。这证实了在当前时期没有观察到核簇的祖先簇。

英文摘要:

We present the first measurement of the proper motion of the young, compact Arches cluster near the Galactic center from near-infrared adaptive optics (AO) data taken with the recently commissioned laser-guide star (LGS) at the Keck 10-m telescope. The excellent astrometric accuracy achieved with LGS-AO provides the basis for a detailed comparison with VLT/NAOS-CONICA data taken 4.3 years earlier. Over the 4.3 year baseline, a spatial displacement of the Arches cluster with respect to the field population is measured to be 24.0 +/- 2.2 mas, corresponding to a proper motion of 5.6 +/- 0.5 mas/yr or 212 +/- 29 km/s at a distance of 8 kpc. In combination with the known line-of-sight velocity of the cluster, we derive a 3D space motion of 232 +/- 30 km/s of the Arches relative to the field. The large proper motion of the Arches cannot be explained with any of the closed orbital families observed in gas clouds in the bar potential of the inner Galaxy, but would be consistent with the Arches being on a transitional trajectory from x1 to x2 orbits. We investigate a cloud-cloud collision as the possible origin for the Arches cluster. The integration of the cluster orbit in the potential of the inner Galaxy suggests that the cluster passes within 10 pc of the supermassive black hole only if its true GC distance is very close to its projected distance. A contribution of young stars from the Arches cluster to the young stellar population in the inner few parsecs of the GC thus appears increasingly unlikely. The measurement of the 3D velocity and orbital analysis provides the first observational evidence that Arches-like clusters do not spiral into the GC. This confirms that no progenitor clusters to the nuclear cluster are observed at the present epoch.

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