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河外星系多波长观测中的球状星团演化线索

Clues to Globular Cluster Evolution from Multiwavelength Observations of Extragalactic Systems

Arunav Kundu, Thomas J. Maccarone, Stephen E. Zepf

摘要:

我们提出了一个研究的球状星团(GC)系统附近的椭圆星系和S0星系在各种波长的X射线到红外线。我们的分析表明,大约一半的低质量X射线双星(LMXB),即吸积中子星或黑洞系统的发光示踪剂,在集群。有一个令人惊讶的LMXB频率和GC的金属丰度之间的强相关性,与富金属GC托管的三倍多的LMXB的金属贫乏的,并没有令人信服的证据与GC年龄的相关性到目前为止。在一些星系中,LMXB的形成率随GC颜色而变化,甚至在典型的双峰星系团颜色分布的红色峰值内也是如此,这提供了一些迄今为止最有力的证据,表明在富含金属的GC峰值内存在金属丰度变化,正如在分层星系形成场景中所预期的那样。我们还注意到,任何对GC颜色分布中细微变化的分析都必须仔细考虑统计误差和系统误差。我们警告说,一些已发表的GC相关性,如明显的“蓝色倾斜”或质量金属丰度效应可能没有物理起源,可能是由系统性观测偏差引起的。

英文摘要:

We present a study of the globular cluster (GC) systems of nearby elliptical and S0 galaxies at a variety of wavelengths from the X-ray to the infrared. Our analysis shows that roughly half of the low mass X-ray binaries (LMXBs), that are the luminous tracers of accreting neutron star or black hole systems, are in clusters. There is a surprisingly strong correlation between the LMXB frequency and the metallicity of the GCs, with metal-rich GCs hosting three times as many LMXBs as metal-poor ones, and no convincing evidence of a correlation with GC age so far. In some of the galaxies the LMXB formation rate varies with GC color even within the red peak of the typical bimodal cluster color distribution, providing some of the strongest evidence to date that there are metallicity variations within the metal-rich GC peak as is expected in a hierarchical galaxy formation scenario. We also note that any analysis of subtler variations in GC color distributions must carefully account for both statistical and systematic errors. We caution that some published GC correlations, such as the apparent 'blue-tilt' or mass-metallicity effect might not have a physical origin and may be caused by systematic observational biases.

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