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矮球状星系中的运动学子群

Kinematic sub-populations in dwarf spheroidal galaxies

Ugur Ural, Mark I. Wilkinson, Andreas Koch, Gerard Gilmore, Timothy C. Beers, Vasily Belokurov, N. Wyn Evans, Eva K. Grebel, Simon Vidrih, Daniel B. Zucker

摘要:

我们提出了新的光谱数据的26颗恒星在最近发现的犬VenaiI(CVnI)矮球状星系。我们使用这些数据来调查最近声称在这个系统中存在两个动态不一致的恒星星族(Ibata等人,2006年)。我们没有发现在我们的样本中存在运动学上不同的种群的证据,我们能够获得与所有可用数据(包括先前发表的数据)一致的CVnI质量估计值。我们讨论了我们的样本和早期的数据集之间可能存在的差异,并研究了在小的运动学样本中子种群的一般可检测性。我们的结论是,在缺乏支持观测证据(例如,金属丰度梯度)的情况下,小运动学样本(通常少于100颗恒星)中的子种群应非常谨慎地对待,因为它们的检测取决于多个参数,很少产生3sigma置信水平的信号。因此,必须明确确定任何建议的亚群的统计学意义。

英文摘要:

We present new spectroscopic data for twenty six stars in the recently-discovered Canes Venatici I (CVnI) dwarf spheroidal galaxy. We use these data to investigate the recent claim of the presence of two dynamically inconsistent stellar populations in this system (Ibata et al., 2006). We do not find evidence for kinematically distinct populations in our sample and we are able to obtain a mass estimate for CVnI that is consistent with all available data, including previously published data. We discuss possible differences between our sample and the earlier data set and study the general detectability of sub-populations in small kinematic samples. We conclude that in the absence of supporting observational evidence (for example, metallicity gradients), sub-populations in small kinematic samples (typically fewer than 100 stars) should be treated with extreme caution, as their detection depends on multiple parameters and rarely produces a signal at the 3sigma confidence level. It is therefore essential to determine explicitly the statistical significance of any suggested sub-population.

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