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M81球状星团体系的金属吸收性质

Metal Abundance Properties of M81 Globular Cluster System

Jun Ma, David Burstein, Zhou Fan, Xu Zhou, Jiansheng Chen, Zhaoji Jiang, Zhenyu Wu, Jianghua Wu

摘要:

本文是M81球状星团系列论文的第三篇。本文介绍了95个M81球状星团的空间分布和金属丰度特征,这些球状星团占M81球状星团的近一半。用KMM检验将这些球状星团划分为两个M81金属丰度群。我们的研究结果表明,富金属团簇没有表现出集中的空间分布在M31,和贫金属团簇往往是空间集中。换句话说,富金属团簇在M81中的分布与M31并不十分相似。大多数富金属团簇分布在投影半径为4-8 kpc。富金属团簇分布在20 kpc以内,贫金属团簇分布在~40 kpc半径。与我们的银河系和M31一样,M81球状星团金属量沿银河系中心半径的分布表明,在球状星团系统形成过程中发生了耗散,即光滑的压力支持的星系坍缩模型不可能产生本文所述的金属量径向分布。在M81球状星团中,球状星团光度与金属丰度之间没有明显的相关性。本文的压倒性的结论似乎是,一个更完整和彻底的集群搜索是需要在M81。

英文摘要:

This paper is the third in the series of papers on M81 globular clusters. In this paper, we present spatial and metal abundance properties of 95 M81 globular clusters, which comprise nearly half of all the M81 globular cluster system. These globular clusters are divided into two M81 metallicity groups by a KMM test. Our results show that, the metal-rich clusters did not demonstrate a centrally concentrated spatial distribution as ones in M31, and metal-poor clusters tend to be less spatially concentrated. In other words, the distribution of the metal-rich clusters in M81 is not very similar to that of M31. Most of the metal-rich clusters distribute at projected radii of 4-8 kpc. It is also noted that the metal-rich clusters distribute within the inner 20 kpc, and the metal-poor ones do out to radii of ~40 kpc. Like our Galaxy and M31, the metallicity distribution of globular clusters in M81 along galactocentric radius suggests that some dissipation occurred during the formation of the globular cluster system, i.e. smooth, pressure-supported collapse models of galaxies are unlikely to produce such radial distribution of metallicity presented in this paper. There is not evident correlation between globular cluster luminosity and metallicity in M81 globular clusters. The overwhelming conclusion of this paper seems to be that a more complete and thorough cluster search is needed in M81.

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