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大麦哲伦云和小麦哲伦云的视线深度

Line of sight depth of the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds

Annapurni Subramaniam, Smitha Subramanian

摘要:

我们利用光学引力透镜实验(OGLE II)巡天和麦哲伦云测光巡天(MCPS)的红色团块星来估计视线深度。观测到的红团星的星等和颜色分布的色散,在校正了其他影响的贡献后,被用来估计视线深度。由于深度的原因,这种色散的范围从可以估计的最小色散到0.46 mag(500 pc到10.44 Kpc的深度)。在SMC的情况下,色散范围从最小色散到0.35等(深度为665秒差距至9.53千秒差距)。LMC棒的厚度剖面表明它是扩口的。沙洲区域的平均深度为4.0 $\pm$ 1.4千秒差距。LMC的晕(使用天琴座RR星)被发现有更大的深度相比,磁盘/酒吧,这支持存在的内晕的LMC。LMC柱和盘估计的大深度表明LMC可能有轻微的合并。在SMC的情况下,发现棒深度(4.90 $\pm$ 1.23 Kpc)和盘深度(4.23 $\pm$ 1.48 Kpc)在标准差范围内。我们发现的证据增加深度附近的光学中心(高达9千秒差距)。另一方面,估计的深度晕(RR Lyrea星)和磁盘(RC星)的酒吧区的SMC被发现是相似的。因此,增加的深度和增强的恒星以及光中心附近的HI密度表明SMC可能有一个凸起。

英文摘要:

We used the red clump stars from the Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment (OGLE II) survey and the the Magellanic Cloud Photometric Survey (MCPS), to estimate the line of sight depth. The observed dispersion in the magnitude and colour distribution of red clump stars is used to estimate the line of sight depth, after correcting for the contribution due to other effects. This dispersion due to depth, has a range from minimum dispersion that can be estimated, to 0.46 mag (a depth of 500 pc to 10.44 Kpc), in the LMC. In the case of SMC, the dispersion ranges from minimum dispersion to 0.35 magnitude (a depth of 665 pc to 9.53 Kpc). The thickness profile of LMC bar indicates that it is flared. The average depth in the bar region is 4.0$\pm$1.4 kpc. The halo of the LMC (using RR Lyrea stars) is found to have larger depth compared to the disk/bar, which supports the presence of inner halo for the LMC. The large depth estimated for the LMC bar and the disk suggests that the LMC might have had minor mergers. In the case of SMC, the bar depth (4.90$\pm$1.23 Kpc) and the disk depth (4.23$\pm$1.48 Kpc) are found to be within the standard deviations. We find evidence for increase in depth near the optical center (up to 9 kpc). On the other hand, the estimated depth for the halo (RR Lyrea stars) and disk (RC stars) for the bar region of the SMC is found to be similar. Thus, increased depth and enhanced stellar as well as HI density near the optical center suggests that the SMC may have a bulge.

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