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大麦云星团ESO 121- SC03探测的简单恒星星族模型

Simple Stellar Population Models as probed by the Large Magellanic Cloud Star Cluster ESO 121-SC03

Y. Xin, L. Deng, R. de Grijs, A. D. Mackey, Z. Han

摘要:

星团中蓝离散星的存在对传统的简单恒星星族(SSP)模型提出了挑战。传统的SSP模型是基于单星演化理论的。同时,在星系团的色星等图上,BS的典型位置比主序星的熄灭点更亮更蓝。这样的基因座是单星演化理论无法预测的。然而,具有这种性质的恒星对星团的综合光有很大的贡献。在本文中,我们重建的综合性质的大麦云星系团ESO 121-SC 03,在详细的探索的基础上,个别集群的恒星,并特别强调集群的BS。我们发现,ESO 121-SC 03的综合光性能显着修改其BS组分。积分光谱能量分布(ISED)通量水平向更短的波长显著增强,所有宽带颜色变得更蓝。当拟合完全集成的ISED这个集群的基础上,传统的SSP模型,年龄和金属丰度的最佳拟合值显着低估了真正的集群参数。如果我们只包括星团半光半径内的BS,则年龄低估为$\sim40$ %,如果包括所有BS,则年龄低估为$\sim60$ %。对应的星团金属丰度低估值分别为$\sim30$和$\sim60$ %。麦哲伦星云中人口众多的星团是理想的对象,以探索BS的潜在重要性,以统计学上稳健的方式对更遥远的未分辨星团的综合光特性进行研究,因为它们涵盖了很大的年龄和金属丰度范围。

英文摘要:

The presence of blue straggler stars (BSs) in star clusters has proven a challenge to conventional simple stellar population (SSP) models. Conventional SSP models are based on the evolution theory of single stars. Meanwhile, the typical locations of BSs in the colour-magnitude diagram of a cluster are brighter and bluer than the main sequence turn-off point. Such loci cannot be predicted by single-star evolution theory. However, stars with such properties contribute significantly to the integrated light of the cluster. In this paper, we reconstruct the integrated properties of the Large Magellanic Cloud cluster ESO 121-SC03, based on a detailed exploration of the individual cluster stars, and with particular emphasis on the cluster's BSs. We find that the integrated light properties of ESO 121-SC03 are dramatically modified by its BS component. The integrated spectral energy distribution (ISED) flux level is significantly enhanced toward shorter wavelengths, and all broad-band colours become bluer. When fitting the fully integrated ISED of this cluster based on conventional SSP models, the best-fitting values of age and metallicity are significantly underestimated compared to the true cluster parameters. The age underestimate is $\sim40$ per cent if we only include the BSs within the cluster's half-light radius and $\sim60$ per cent if all BSs are included. The corresponding underestimates of the cluster's metallicity are $\sim30$ and $\sim60$ per cent, respectively. The populous star clusters in the Magellanic Clouds are ideal objects to explore the potential importance of BSs for the integrated light properties of more distant unresolved star clusters in a statistically robust manner, since they cover a large range in age and metallicity.

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