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大麦云云的化学富集历史

The Chemical Enrichment History of the Large Magellanic Cloud

Ricardo Carrera, Carme Gallart, Eduardo Hardy, Antonio Aparicio, Robert Zinn

摘要:

Ca II三重态光谱已被用来计算位于沙洲以北的银河系中心距离为3 \arcdeg、5 \arcdeg、6 \arcdeg和8 \arcdeg的四个大麦哲伦星系场中单个恒星的恒星金属丰度。观察到的金属丰度分布显示出一个明确的峰值,尾部朝向低金属丰度。在6 \arcdeg之前,平均金属丰度保持恒定([Fe/H] $\sim$ -0.5 dex),而对于最外层区域,在8 \arcdeg,平均金属丰度显著低于盘的其余部分([Fe/H] $\sim$ -0.8 dex)。光谱学与深CCD光度学的结合使我们能够打破RGB年龄-金属丰度简并计算光谱观察到的物体的年龄。我们的四个领域所获得的年龄-金属丰度的关系是统计上难以区分的。我们的结论是,较低的平均金属丰度在最外层的领域是一个结果,它有一个较低的比例的中间年龄的恒星,这是更丰富的金属比老恒星。盘年龄-金属丰度关系与星系团相似。然而,在实地人口中没有观察到缺乏年龄在3至10 Gyr之间的物体。最后,我们使用的数据从文献中得到一致的年龄-金属丰度的关系酒吧。简单的化学演化模型已被用来重现所观察到的年龄-金属丰度的关系,目的是调查的机制参与了磁盘和酒吧的演变。我们发现,虽然磁盘年龄-金属丰度的关系是很好地再现了封闭的盒子模型或模型与小程度的流出,酒吧只再现了模型与组合的流入和流出。

英文摘要:

Ca II triplet spectroscopy has been used to derive stellar metallicities for individual stars in four LMC fields situated at galactocentric distances of 3\arcdeg, 5\arcdeg, 6\arcdeg\@ and 8\arcdeg\@ to the north of the Bar. Observed metallicity distributions show a well defined peak, with a tail toward low metallicities. The mean metallicity remains constant until 6\arcdeg\@ ([Fe/H]$\sim$-0.5 dex), while for the outermost field, at 8\arcdeg, the mean metallicity is substantially lower than in the rest of the disk ([Fe/H]$\sim$-0.8 dex). The combination of spectroscopy with deep CCD photometry has allowed us to break the RGB age--metallicity degeneracy and compute the ages for the objects observed spectroscopically. The obtained age--metallicity relationships for our four fields are statistically indistinguishable. We conclude that the lower mean metallicity in the outermost field is a consequence of it having a lower fraction of intermediate-age stars, which are more metal-rich than the older stars. The disk age--metallicity relationship is similar to that for clusters. However, the lack of objects with ages between 3 and 10 Gyr is not observed in the field population. Finally, we used data from the literature to derive consistently the age--metallicity relationship of the bar. Simple chemical evolution models have been used to reproduce the observed age--metallicity relationships with the purpose of investigating which mechanism has participated in the evolution of the disk and bar. We find that while the disk age--metallicity relationship is well reproduced by close-box models or models with a small degree of outflow, that of the bar is only reproduced by models with combination of infall and outflow.

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