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用深自适应光学成像探测银河系隆起:NGC 6440年

Probing the Galactic Bulge with deep Adaptive Optics imaging: the age of NGC 6440

L. Origlia, S. Lena, E. Diolaiti, F. R. Ferraro, E. Valenti, S. Fabbri, G. Beccari

摘要:

我们目前的第一个试点项目的结果,旨在利用地面自适应光学成像在近红外线的潜力,以确定银河系隆起的星团的年龄。利用高分辨率自适应光学(ESO-VLT NAOS-CONICA)和宽视场测光(ESO-NTT-SOFI)相结合的方法,计算了位于球核内侧的富金属球状星团NGC 6440从红巨星分支顶端到J~22$(低于主序星关闭(TO)两个星等)的深色星等图。TO水平和红色水平分支之间的幅度差异被用作年龄指标。这是第一次用地基望远镜对球状星团进行这样的测量。通过与47 Tuc的直接比较和一组理论等时线,我们得出结论,NGC 6440是古老的,可能与47 Tuc同时代。这一结果增加了一个新的证据,即银河系隆起最多比原始的、金属贫乏的星系晕年轻2光年。

英文摘要:

We present first results of a pilot project aimed at exploiting the potentiality of ground based adaptive optics imaging in the near infrared to determine the age of stellar clusters in the Galactic Bulge. We have used a combination of high resolution adaptive optics (ESO-VLT NAOS-CONICA) and wide-field (ESO-NTT-SOFI) photometry of the metal rich globular cluster NGC 6440 located towards the inner Bulge, to compute a deep color magnitude diagram from the tip of the Red Giant Branch down to J~22$, two magnitudes below the Main Sequence Turn Off (TO). The magnitude difference between the TO level and the red Horizontal Branch has been used as an age indicator. It is the first time that such a measurement for a bulge globular cluster has been obtained with a ground based telescope. From a direct comparison with 47 Tuc and with a set of theoretical isochrones, we concluded that NGC 6440 is old and likely coeval to 47 Tuc. This result adds a new evidence that the Galactic Bulge is ~2 Gyr younger at most than the pristine, metal poor population of the Galactic Halo.

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