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红巨星分支星CaII三重态光谱的VLT/FLAMES观测分析和定标

Analysis and calibration of CaII triplet spectroscopy of Red Giant Branch stars from VLT/FLAMES observations

G. Battaglia, M. Irwin, E. Tolstoy, V. Hill, A. Helmi, B. Letarte, P. Jablonka

摘要:

我们证明了两个附近矮球状星系(dSphs)中单个红巨星分支(RGB)恒星的整体金属丰度([Fe/H])的低分辨率CaII三重态(CaT)光谱估计值与相同恒星在-2.5 < [Fe/H] <-0.5范围内的详细高分辨率光谱测定值一致,为+-0.1-0.2 dex。在这项研究中,我们使用了129颗恒星的样本,在低分辨率和高分辨率模式下观察到的VLT/FLAMES在雕塑家和天炉座dSphs。我们还介绍了我们在低分辨率分析中使用的数据简化步骤,并表明我们的速度和CaT [Fe/H]测量的典型精度分别为~2 km/s和0.1 dex。我们的结论是,在球状星团上标定的CaT-[Fe/H]关系可以很有信心地应用于复合恒星星族中的RGB星,范围为-2.5 < [Fe/H] <-0.5。

英文摘要:

We demonstrate that low resolution CaII triplet (CaT) spectroscopic estimates of the overall metallicity ([Fe/H]) of individual Red Giant Branch (RGB) stars in two nearby dwarf spheroidal galaxies (dSphs) agree to +-0.1-0.2 dex with detailed high resolution spectroscopic determinations for the same stars over the range -2.5 < [Fe/H] < -0.5. For this study we used a sample of 129 stars observed in low and high resolution mode with VLT/FLAMES in the Sculptor and Fornax dSphs. We also present the data reduction steps we used in our low resolution analysis and show that the typical accuracy of our velocity and CaT [Fe/H] measurement is ~2 km/s and 0.1 dex respectively. We conclude that CaT-[Fe/H] relations calibrated on globular clusters can be applied with confidence to RGB stars in composite stellar populations over the range -2.5 < [Fe/H] < -0.5.

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