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年轻星系团NGC 1818在大麦云云中的双星部分

The binary fraction of the young cluster NGC 1818 in the Large Magellanic Cloud

Yi Hu, Licai Deng, Richard deGrijs, Simon P. Goodwin, Qiang Liu

摘要:

我们使用高分辨率的{ \sl哈勃太空望远镜}成像观测的年轻($\sim 15-25$ Myr-old)星团NGC 1818在大麦云的F星($1.3 < M_\star/M_\odot < 1.6$)的二元分数的估计。这项研究提供了最强的限制,但在一个年轻的星团在低金属丰度环境(${[Fe/H]} \sim -0.4$ dex)的二进制部分。采用人工星测试,我们开发了一种简单的方法,可以有效地测量恒星混合和叠加的概率从观测到的恒星目录。我们创建了与NGC 1818的基本参数相匹配的合成色星等图,具有不同的二进制分数和质量比分布。我们发现,这种方法是敏感的二进制的质量比,$q \ga 0.4$。对于具有F星原色和质量比$q > 0.4$的双星,双星分数是$\sim 0.35$。这表明F星的总双星分数为0.55到1,这取决于对低$q$时质量比分布形式的假设。

英文摘要:

We use high-resolution {\sl Hubble Space Telescope} imaging observations of the young ($\sim 15-25$ Myr-old) star cluster NGC 1818 in the Large Magellanic Cloud to derive an estimate for the binary fraction of F stars ($1.3 < M_\star/M_\odot < 1.6$). This study provides the strongest constraints yet on the binary fraction in a young star cluster in a low-metallicity environment (${[Fe/H]} \sim -0.4$ dex). Employing artificial-star tests, we develop a simple method that can efficiently measure the probabilities of stellar blends and superpositions from the observed stellar catalog. We create synthetic color-magnitude diagrams matching the fundamental parameters of NGC 1818, with different binary fractions and mass-ratio distributions. We find that this method is sensitive to binaries with mass ratios, $q \ga 0.4$. For binaries with F-star primaries and mass ratios $q > 0.4$, the binary fraction is $\sim 0.35$. This suggests a total binary fraction for F stars of 0.55 to unity, depending on assumptions about the form of the mass-ratio distribution at low $q$.

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