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球状星团极端水平分支星间的双星

Binaries among Extreme Horizontal Branch Stars in Globular Clusters

C. Moni Bidin, M. Catelan, S. Villanova, G. Piotto, M. Altmann, Y. Momany, S. Moehler

摘要:

在回顾了我们目前对球状星团中蓝亚矮星的认识之后,我们概述了在这些恒星中搜索近距离双星的结果,包括以前发表在文献中的结果和报告最近的新数据的初步结果。先前的研究显示NGC 6752缺乏封闭系统,我们通过新的更广泛的观测证实了这一点。我们估计这个星团中的密近双星比例只有4%。通过对相关文献的回顾,有迹象表明极水平分支(EHB)恒星中的低密近双星比例是球状星团的一个共同特征。另一方面,现场EHB人口显示出一个非常高的二进制分数的证据。这种差异之间的球状星团和外地人口,虽然尚未详细解释的理论模型的基础上,必须与不同的形成历史的EHB恒星在外地和集群。在这个框架下,初步的结果表明,封闭系统可能在特殊的球状星团NGC 2808中相对常见,尽管研究的恒星样本仍然很小。这意味着,就EHB恒星的形成而言,并非所有的星团都有相同的行为。我们简要探讨这些结果的可能解释。

英文摘要:

Following a review of our present knowledge about blue subdwarf stars in globular clusters, we present an overview of the results of searches for close binaries among these stars, including results previously published in the literature and reporting recent and preliminary results of new data. Previous investigations revealed a lack of close systems in NGC 6752, which we confirm with new, more extensive observations. Our estimate of the close binary fraction in this cluster is only 4%. From a review of the relevant literature, there are indications that a low close binary fraction among extreme horizontal branch (EHB) stars is a common feature in globular star clusters. On the other hand, the field EHB population shows evidence of a remarkably high binary fraction. Such a difference among globular cluster and field populations, although not yet explained in detail on the basis of theoretical models, must necessarily be related to different formation histories for EHB stars in the field and in clusters. In this framework, preliminary results indicate that close systems could be relatively common in the peculiar globular cluster NGC 2808, although the sample of studied stars is still small. This would imply that not all clusters share the same behavior, as far as EHB star formation is concerned. We briefly explore possible explanations for these results.

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