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早型星系中的低质量X射线双星和球状星团。II。球状星团候选者及其质量-金属丰度关系

Low-Mass X-ray Binaries and Globular Clusters in Early-Type Galaxies. II. Globular Cluster Candidates and their Mass-Metallicity Relation

Philip J Humphrey

摘要:

我们提出了一个天体测量学和测光目录的球状星团(GC)的候选人检测与HST WFPC 2的样本中的19个早型星系,适当的比较与钱德拉观测到的低质量X射线二进制(LMXB)人口。在配套文件中,我们提出了钱德拉数据,并调查这些人口之间的关系。我们证明,虽然有一个颜色的GC星等相关性的证据很少,估计质量和金属丰度的测光后,假设一个单一的年龄简单的恒星星族,有一个显着的质量和金属丰度之间的正相关性。我们约束[Z/H] =(-2.1+/-0.2)+(0.25+/-0.04)log M,金属丰度的1-sigma内在散射为0.62 dex。如果GC是双峰的金属丰度这种关系是一致的,最近建议的质量金属丰度的关系,只为贫金属的集群。采用一种新的方法对GC光度函数(GCLF)进行拟合,并考虑了不完全性和爱丁顿偏差,计算了各星系V波段的局部GC比频率(Sn)和比光度(Sl)。我们表明,SI是更强大的测量GC人口的丰富性,其中一个显着的部分是未检测到由于源检测不完整。我们发现,GCLF营业额的绝对幅度表现出内在的散射从星系到星系的~0.3mag(1-西格玛),限制其作为一个标准的距离测量的准确性。

英文摘要:

We present an astrometry and photometry catalogue of globular cluster (GC) candidates detected with HST WFPC2 in a sample of 19 early-type galaxies, appropriate for comparison to the low-mass X-ray binary (LMXB) populations observed with Chandra. In a companion paper, we present the Chandra data and investigate the relation between these populations. We demonstrate that, although there is little evidence of a colour-magnitude correlation for the GCs, after estimating mass and metallicity from the photometry, under the assumption of a single age simple stellar population, there is a significant positive correlation between mass and metallicity. We constrained [Z/H] = (-2.1+/-0.2)+(0.25+/-0.04)log M, with a 1-sigma intrinsic scatter of 0.62 dex in metallicity. If GCs are bimodal in metallicity this relation is consistent with recent suggestions of a mass-metallicity relation only for metal-poor clusters. Adopting a new technique to fit the GC luminosity function (GCLF) accounting for incompleteness and the Eddington bias, we compute the V-band local GC specific frequency (Sn) and specific luminosity (Sl) of each galaxy. We show that Sl is the more robust measure of the richness of a GC population where a significant fraction is undetected due to source detection incompleteness. We find that the absolute magnitude of the GCLF turnover exhibits intrinsic scatter from galaxy to galaxy of ~0.3mag (1-sigma), limiting its accuracy as a standard distance measure.

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