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一个新的基于红巨星的距离模13.3Mpc到银河系及其结果

A new red giant-based distance modulus of 13.3 Mpc to the Antennae galaxies and its consequences

Ivo Saviane, Yazan Momany, Gary S. Da Costa, R. Michael Rich, John Hibbard

摘要:

银河系是正在进行的主要星系合并的最接近的例子,因此代表了一个独特的实验室,以进一步了解奇异物体的形成(例如,潮汐矮星系、超亮X射线源、超星团等)。在以前的论文中,HST/WFPC 2的观测被用来证明,太阳系的距离可能比文献中传统假设的要小得多。在这里,我们报告了新的,更深的HST/ACS成像,解决了复合恒星星族,最重要的是,揭示了一个明确的红巨星分支。这个红巨星分支(TRGB)的尖端被明确地探测到在Io(TRGB)=26.65 +/- 0.09 mag.采用最新的TRGB光度校准,然后产生一个距离模数为(m-M)o= 30.62 +/- 0.17,对应的距离为13.3 +/- 1.0 Mpc。这与我们先前的结果一致,一旦考虑到标准蜡烛的不同校准。我们简要地讨论这个现在确定较短的距离的影响。

英文摘要:

The Antennae galaxies are the closest example of an ongoing major galaxy merger, and thereby represent a unique laboratory for furthering the understanding of the formation of exotic objects (e.g., tidal dwarf galaxies, ultra-luminous X-ray sources, super-stellar clusters, etc). In a previous paper HST/WFPC2 observations were used to demonstrate that the Antennae system might be at a distance considerably less than that conventionally assumed in the literature. Here we report new, much deeper HST/ACS imaging that resolves the composite stellar populations, and most importantly, reveals a well-defined red giant branch. The tip of this red giant branch (TRGB) is unambiguously detected at Io(TRGB)=26.65 +/- 0.09 mag. Adopting the most recent calibration of the luminosity of the TRGB then yields a distance modulus for the Antennae of (m-M)o= 30.62 +/- 0.17 corresponding to a distance of 13.3 +/- 1.0 Mpc. This is consistent with our earlier result, once the different calibrations for the standard candle are considered. We briefly discuss the implications of this now well determined shorter distance.

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