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球状星团NGC 6397的深部ACS成像:星团色星等图和亮度函数

Deep ACS Imaging in the Globular Cluster NGC 6397: The Cluster Color Magnitude Diagram and Luminosity Function

Harvey B. Richer, Aaron Dotter, Jarrod Hurley, Jay Anderson, Ivan King, Saul Davis, Gregory G. Fahlman, Brad M. S. Hansen, Jason Kalirai, Nathaniel Paust, R. Mi… 展开作者

Harvey B. Richer, Aaron Dotter, Jarrod Hurley, Jay Anderson, Ivan King, Saul Davis, Gregory G. Fahlman, Brad M. S. Hansen, Jason Kalirai, Nathaniel Paust, R. Michael Rich, Michael M. Shara

摘要:

本文介绍了球状星团NGC 6397的深HST成像的CMD。ACS被用于126个轨道,以两种颜色(F814W,F606W)对星团中心SE 5弧分的单个视野进行成像。观察到的字段重叠,从1994年和1997年被用来自行(PM)清理数据的档案WFPC 2数据。应用PM校正产生了一个非常干净的CMD,揭示了一些以前从未见过的球状星团CMD的功能。在我们的领域,主序星似乎终止于CMD中氢燃烧极限的位置附近,这是由两组独立的恒星演化模型预测的。观测到的最暗的主序星比已知的最不亮的贫金属场晕星要暗一个星等,这表明最低光度的晕星仍然有待发现。在明亮的一端,数据延伸到主层序的岔道之外,流入巨大的分支。一个人口稠密的白矮星冷却序列也可以在星系团CMD中看到。冷却序列最引人注目的特征是它在微弱的星等下变成蓝色,以及在F814W = 28附近的明显截断。导出了从关闭到氢燃烧极限的星系团光度和质量函数。它可以用非常平坦的幂律或对数正态函数很好地建模。为了更充分地解释这些拟合,我们将它们与星系团核心中的类似功能进行了比较,并与NGC 6397的完整N体模型进行了比较,发现模型预测与数据之间存在令人满意的一致性。这项工作表明了动态在改变货币基金组织集群方面发挥的重要作用和影响。

英文摘要:

We present the CMD from deep HST imaging in the globular cluster NGC 6397. The ACS was used for 126 orbits to image a single field in two colors (F814W, F606W) 5 arcmin SE of the cluster center. The field observed overlaps that of archival WFPC2 data from 1994 and 1997 which were used to proper motion (PM) clean the data. Applying the PM corrections produces a remarkably clean CMD which reveals a number of features never seen before in a globular cluster CMD. In our field, the main sequence stars appeared to terminate close to the location in the CMD of the hydrogen-burning limit predicted by two independent sets of stellar evolution models. The faintest observed main sequence stars are about a magnitude fainter than the least luminous metal-poor field halo stars known, suggesting that the lowest luminosity halo stars still await discovery. At the bright end the data extend beyond the main sequence turnoff to well up the giant branch. A populous white dwarf cooling sequence is also seen in the cluster CMD. The most dramatic features of the cooling sequence are its turn to the blue at faint magnitudes as well as an apparent truncation near F814W = 28. The cluster luminosity and mass functions were derived, stretching from the turn off down to the hydrogen-burning limit. It was well modeled with either a very flat power-law or a lognormal function. In order to interpret these fits more fully we compared them with similar functions in the cluster core and with a full N-body model of NGC 6397 finding satisfactory agreement between the model predictions and the data. This exercise demonstrates the important role and the effect that dynamics has played in altering the cluster IMF.

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