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NGC 5128中球状星团的结构参数。III。ACS表面亮度曲线和模型拟合

Structural parameters for globular clusters in NGC 5128. III. ACS surface-brightness profiles and model fits

Dean E. McLaughlin, Pauline Barmby, William E. Harris, Duncan A. Forbes, Gretchen L. H. Harris

摘要:

我们基于F606 W波段的HST/ACS成像,给出了巨大椭圆星系NGC 5128中131个亮度为10^4 - 3 x 10^6太阳光的球状星团候选者的内表面亮度轮廓。几个结构模型适合于每个集群的配置文件,并结合人口合成模型的质光比,以获得一个目录的基本结构和动力学参数的形式平行的目录最近产生的McLaughlin & van der Marel和Barmby等人。GC和大质量的年轻星团在本星系群星系。作为其中的一部分,我们提供了NGC 5128中另外18个簇的校正和扩展参数估计,这是我们以前观察到的。我们发现,像银河系中的GC和它的一些卫星,在NGC 5128中的大多数球状星团都很好地符合各向同性威尔逊模型,它具有本质上更多的膨胀信封结构比标准的国王降低等温球。我们使用我们的模型来预测样本中每个集群的内部速度分散。这些预测同意一般与观察到的分散体在少数集群的光谱数据。在随后的论文中,我们使用这些结果来研究NGC 5128中GC的标度关系。

英文摘要:

We present internal surface-brightness profiles, based on HST/ACS imaging in the F606W bandpass, for 131 globular cluster (GC) candidates with luminosities 10^4 - 3 x 10^6 solar, in the giant elliptical galaxy NGC 5128. Several structural models are fit to the profile of each cluster and combined with mass-to-light ratios from population-synthesis models, to derive a catalogue of fundamental structural and dynamical parameters parallel in form to the catalogues recently produced by McLaughlin & van der Marel and Barmby et al. for GCs and massive young star clusters in Local Group galaxies. As part of this, we provide corrected and extended parameter estimates for another 18 clusters in NGC 5128, which we observed previously. We show that, like GCs in the Milky Way and some of its satellites, the majority of globulars in NGC 5128 are well fit by isotropic Wilson models, which have intrinsically more distended envelope structures than the standard King lowered isothermal spheres. We use our models to predict internal velocity dispersions for every cluster in our sample. These predictions agree well in general with the observed dispersions in a small number of clusters for which spectroscopic data are available. In a subsequent paper, we use these results to investigate scaling relations for GCs in NGC 5128.

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