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银河系疏散星团中的蓝离散星和场星污染效应

Blue Straggler Stars in Galactic Open Clusters and the effect of field star contamination

G. Carraro, R. A. Vazquez, A. Moitinho

摘要:

我们研究了蓝离散星在三个疏散星团场中的分布。主要目的是突出一般银河系盘前/背景场恒星所扮演的关键角色,这些恒星通常与蓝离散星位于色星等图的同一区域。我们分析了3个富含蓝离散星的中/老年龄疏散星团的测光结果,并将它们投射到英仙座臂的方向,研究了它们的空间分布和色星等图。正如我们所预期的那样,我们发现这些星团中的大部分蓝离散星都是属于旋臂的年轻场星,这一结果对不同星群环境中蓝离散星的形成和统计理论有重要的影响:疏散星团、球状星团和矮星系。正如许多作者先前强调的那样,在将星团中的蓝离散星人口与理论模型进行比较之前,必须进行详细的成员分析。此外,这些年轻的恒星序列(蓝色羽状物)是银河系结构的潜在强大示踪剂,需要进一步考虑。

英文摘要:

We investigate the distribution of Blue Straggler stars in the field of three open star clusters. The main purpose is to highlight the crucial role played by general Galactic disk fore-/back-ground field stars, which are often located in the same region of the Color Magnitude Diagram as Blue Straggler stars. We analyze photometry taken from the literature of 3 open clusters of intermediate/old age rich in Blue Straggler stars, and which are projected in the direction of the Perseus arm, and study their spatial distribution and the Color Magnitude Diagram. As expected, we find that a large portion of the Blue Straggler population in these clusters are simply young field stars belonging to the spiral arm. This result has important consequences on the theories of the formation and statistics of Blue Straggler stars in different population environments: open clusters, globular clusters or dwarf galaxies. As previously emphasized by many authors, a detailed membership analysis is mandatory before comparing the Blue Straggler population in star clusters against theoretical models. Moreover, these sequences of young field stars (blue plumes) are potentially powerful tracers of Galactic structure which require further consideration.

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