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河外球状星团的金属度-颜色关系和双峰色分布

On the Metallicity-Color Relations and Bimodal Color Distributions in Extragalactic Globular Cluster Systems

Michele Cantiello, John P. Blakeslee

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摘要：

我们进行了一系列数值实验，研究不同星族模型预测的非线性金属丰度-颜色关系对河外球状星团系统中观测到的颜色分布的影响。我们提出了模拟的基础上，五个不同的简单的恒星星族（SSP）模型的$UBVRIJHK$带通。也包括颜色中光度散射的存在。我们发现单峰金属丰度分布经常“投影”成双峰颜色分布。这种效应的可能性取决于金属丰度分布的平均值和离散度，当然也取决于用于转换的SSP模型。在参考Teramo-SPoT SSP模型的基础上，我们发现光学到近红外的颜色应该优先于其他颜色，以避免\citet{yoon06}讨论的球状星团颜色分布中的偏置效应。特别地，诸如\vh\或\vk的颜色对于金属度-颜色关系的非线性更稳健，并且在这样的颜色中观察到的双峰分布更可能指示真实的潜在双峰金属度分布。类似的结论来自不同的SSP模型的基础上的模拟，虽然我们也确定了例外的这一结果。

英文摘要：

We perform a series of numerical experiments to study how the nonlinear metallicity--color relations predicted by different stellar population models affect the color distributions observed in extragalactic globular cluster systems. % We present simulations in the $UBVRIJHK$ bandpasses based on five different sets of simple stellar population (SSP) models. The presence of photometric scatter in the colors is included as well. % We find that unimodal metallicity distributions frequently ``project'' into bimodal color distributions. The likelihood of this effect depends on both the mean and dispersion of the metallicity distribution, as well as of course on the SSP model used for the transformation. % Adopting the Teramo-SPoT SSP models for reference, we find that optical--to--near-IR colors should be favored with respect to other colors to avoid the bias effect in globular cluster color distributions discussed by \citet{yoon06}. In particular, colors such as \vh\ or \vk are more robust against nonlinearity of the metallicity--color relation, and an observed bimodal distribution in such colors is more likely to indicate a true underlying bimodal metallicity distribution. Similar conclusions come from the simulations based on different SSP models, although we also identify exceptions to this result.

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