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LMC中等年龄星系团的自洽物理参数

On the self-consistent physical parameters of LMC intermediate-age clusters

L. O. Kerber, B. X. Santiago

摘要:

大麦哲伦星系团是简单恒星星族(SSP)的独特模板,对于校正描述积分光的模型以及检验恒星演化理论至关重要。考虑到这一点,我们分析了HST/WFPC 2(V,B-V)的颜色星等图(CMD)的15个人口稠密的LMC集群的年龄之间的~0.3 Gyr和~4 Gyr使用不同的恒星演化模型(Padova,PEL或比萨,BaSTI或Teramo)。遵循Kerber,Santiago & Brocato(2007)描述的方法,我们通过将观测到的CMD与合成的CMD进行比较,确定了每个集群的准确和自洽的物理参数(年龄,金属丰度,距离模量和红化)。我们发现,由于恒星演化模型的选择和对流核过冲的处理,物理参数的显着趋势。在一般情况下,模型,包括超调比那些不提供更可靠的结果。与文献中的结果比较表明,我们推导的金属丰度与红巨星光谱的结果吻合得很好。我们还证实,独立于所采用的恒星演化库,恢复的三维分布这些集群是一致的厚盘大致对齐的LMC磁盘所定义的场星。最后,我们还提供了到LMC中心的距离模量的新估计,这与规范值18.50略微一致。

英文摘要:

The LMC clusters are unique templates of simple stellar population (SSP), being crucial to calibrate models describing the integral light as well as to test the stellar evolution theory. With this in mind we analyzed HST/WFPC2 (V, B--V) colour-magnitude diagrams (CMDs) of 15 populous LMC clusters with ages between ~0.3 Gyr and ~4 Gyr using different stellar evolutionary models (Padova, PEL or Pisa, BaSTI or Teramo). Following the approach described by Kerber, Santiago & Brocato (2007), we determined accurate and self-consistent physical parameters (age, metallicity, distance modulus and reddening) for each cluster by comparing the observed CMDs with synthetic ones. We found significant trends in the physical parameters due to the choice of stellar evolutionary model and treatment of convective core overshooting. In general, models that incorporate overshooting presented more reliable results than those that do not. Comparisons with the results found in the literature demonstrated that our derived metallicities are in good agreement with the ones from the spectroscopy of red giants. We also confirmed that, independent of the adopted stellar evolutionary library, the recovered 3D distribution for these clusters is consistent with a thick disk roughly aligned with the LMC disk as defined by field stars. Finally, we also provide new estimates of distance modulus to the LMC center, that are marginally consistent with the canonical value of 18.50.

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