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内星系红巨星金属丰度分布的近红外光谱研究

Metallicity distribution of red giants in the Inner Galaxy from Near Infrared spectra

C. González-Fernández, A. Cabrera-Lavers, P. L. Hammersley, F. Garzón

摘要:

在本文中,我们提出了低分辨率(R=500)的近红外光谱的选择和偶然的来源,在6个内部面内银河领域,分析恒星的内容存在的目的。根据K带光谱的主要特征(NaI、CaI和CO带头)的等效宽度,我们通过Ramírez等人(2000)和Frogel等人(2001)获得的发光红巨星的经验标度,导出了源的金属丰度。我们的研究结果显示了样品的平均金属丰度如何随银河经度而变化。我们发现了两组恒星,一组的[Fe/H]与其他研究中获得的凸起值相似(Molla et al. 2000; Schultehis et al 2003),另一组的金属丰度与盘内部相似(Rocha-Pinto et al. 2006)。在我们的样本中,这两组恒星的相对密度从凸起到圆盘连续变化。这可能暗示了除了盘和凸起之外,存在一个单一的组成部分,从l=7到l=27,能够向内传输盘星,向外传输凸起星,这可能是银河棒,在以前的工作中已经检测到位于这些银河系坐标的恒星密度过高(Hammersley et al. 1994,2000; Picaud et al. 2003)。

英文摘要:

In this paper, we present low resolution (R=500) near-infrared spectra for selected and serendipitous sources in six inner in-plane Galactic fields, with the aim of analysing the stellar content present. From the equivalent widths of the main features of the K band spectra (the NaI, CaI and CO bandheads) we have derived the metallicities of the sources by means of the empirical scale obtained by Ramírez et al. (2000) and Frogel et al. (2001) for luminous red giants. Our results show how the mean metallicity of the sample varies with Galactic longitude. We find two groups of stars, one whose [Fe/H] is similar to the values obtained for the bulge in other studies (Molla et al. 2000; Schultehis et al 2003), and a second one with a metallicity similar to that of the inner parts of the disc (Rocha-Pinto et al. 2006). The relative density of both groups of stars in our sample varies in a continuous way from the bulge to the disc. This could hint at the existence of a single component apart from the disc and bulge, running from l=7 to l=27 and able to transport disc stars inwards and bulge stars outwards, which could be the Galactic bar that has been detected in previous works as an overdensity of stars located at those galactic coordinates (Hammersley et al. 1994, 2000; Picaud et al. 2003).

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