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银河系外盘的老疏散星团

Old open clusters in the outer Galactic disk

Giovanni Carraro, Douglas Geisler, Sandro Villanova, Peter Frinchaboy, Steve Majewski

摘要:

银河系盘的外部被认为是以矮星系形式的外部物质吸积和随后形成流的主要场所之一。麒麟座溪流、大犬座和阿尔戈座的密度过高就是臭名昭著的例子。获得了五个遥远疏散星团的VLT高分辨光谱。我们推导出精确的径向速度,以区分外地闯入者和集群成员。对于后者,我们进行了详细的丰度分析,并得出铁丰度[Fe/H]和几个$α$元素的丰度比。我们的分析证实了以前的迹象表明,径向丰度梯度外银河系盘不遵循从太阳附近的预期外推,但表现出较浅的斜率。通过结合金属丰度的五个程序集群与8个集群的高分辨率光谱,我们发现,在12和21千秒差距之间的银河系中心的外盘的平均金属丰度是[Fe/H] $\approx -0.35$,只有边缘的径向变化的迹象。此外,所有的程序集群表现出太阳尺度或略有增强的$α$元素,类似于太阳附近的疏散星团和薄盘星。我们调查这个外部磁盘集群样本是否可能属于银河系外的人口,如麒麟座环。然而,仔细研究它们的性质-位置,运动学和化学-并不能令人信服地支持这一假设。相反,它们看起来更像是真正的银河系盘状星团。最后,我们强调的重要性,以获得适当的运动测量这些集群,以约束它们的轨道。

英文摘要:

The outer parts of the Milky Way disk are believed to be one of the main arenas where the accretion of external material in the form of dwarf galaxies and subsequent formation of streams is taking place. The Monoceros stream and the Canis Major and Argo over-densities are notorious examples. VLT high resolution spectra have been acquired for five distant open clusters. We derive accurate radial velocities to distinguish field interlopers and cluster members. For the latter we perform a detailed abundance analysis and derive the iron abundance [Fe/H] and the abundance ratios of several $α$ elements. Our analysis confirms previous indications that the radial abundance gradient in the outer Galactic disk does not follow the expectations extrapolated from the solar vicinity, but exhibits a shallower slope. By combining the metallicity of the five program clusters with eight more clusters for which high resolution spectroscopy is available, we find that the mean metallicity in the outer disk between 12 and 21 kpc from the Galactic center is [Fe/H] $\approx -0.35$, with only marginal indications for a radial variation. In addition, all the program clusters exhibit solar scaled or slightly enhanced $α$ elements, similar to open clusters in the solar vicinity and thin disk stars. We investigate whether this outer disk cluster sample might belong to an extra-galactic population, like the Monoceros ring. However, close scrutiny of their properties - location, kinematics and chemistry - does not convincingly favor this hypothesis. On the contrary, they appear more likely genuine Galactic disk clusters. We finally stress the importance to obtain proper motion measurements for these clusters to constrain their orbits.

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