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麦哲伦星云中的多个恒星星族。I. LMC中的中等年龄球状星团的一个普通特征?

Multiple stellar populations in Magellanic Clouds clusters. I. An ordinary feature for intermediate age globulars in the LMC?

A. P. Milone, L. R. Bedin, G. Piotto, J. Anderson

摘要:

在NGC 2808和半人马座欧米茄中发现了多个MS,在NGC 1851和NGC 6388中发现了多个SGB,这挑战了长期以来的范式,即GC由简单的恒星星族组成。最近对LMC中年星团的研究使这一情况进一步复杂化,发现MSTO是双峰或加宽的。我们已经进行了一项研究的档案HST图像的LMC和SMC集群的频率测量集群的证据,多个或长期的恒星形成事件,并确定其主要属性的目的。在本文中,我们分析了16个中年LMC集群的CMD。我们发现11个星团在MSTO周围的颜色和大小上表现出异常的扩散(或分裂)。我们表明,所观察到的功能是明确相关的集群,它不是一个工件,由于光度误差,微分红化或二进制。我们确认NGC 1806和NGC 1846清楚地表现出两个不同的MSTO,并首次在NGC 1751中观察到双MSTO。在这三个星团中,对应于较亮的MSTO的星族包括了超过三分之二的星团恒星星族。我们证实了NGC 1783中存在多个恒星星族,并认为该星团的MSTO由两个不同的分支组成。在7个星团(ESO 057-SC 075,HODGE 7,NGC 1852,NGC 1917,NGC 1987,NGC 2108和NGC 2154)中,我们观察到MSTO的内在加宽,这可能表明这些星团经历了较长的恒星形成期(1.5亿-2.5亿年)。IC 2146、NGC 1644、NGC 1652、NGC 1795和NGC 1978的CMD未显示扩散或双峰性证据。总的来说,70 $\pm$ 25%的样本不符合简单的、单一的恒星星族假说。

英文摘要:

The discovery of multiple MSs in NGC2808 and Omega Centauri, and multiple SGBs in NGC1851 and NGC6388 has challenged the long-held paradigm that GCs consist of simple stellar populations. This picture has been further complicated by recent studies of the LMC intermediate-age clusters, where the MSTO was found to be bimodal or broadened. We have undertaken a study of archival HST images of LMC and SMC clusters with the aim of measuring the frequency of clusters with evidence of multiple or prolonged star formation events and determining their main properties. In this paper, we analyse the CMD of 16 intermediate-age LMC clusters. We find that 11 clusters show an anomalous spread (or split) in color and magnitude around the MSTO. We demonstrate that the observed feature is unequivocally associated to the clusters and that it is not an artifact due to photometric errors, differential reddening or binaries. We confirm that NGC 1806 and NGC 1846 clearly exhibit two distinct MSTOs and observe, for the first time, a double MSTO in NGC 1751. In these three clusters the population corresponding to the brighter MSTO includes more than two-thirds of cluster stellar population. We confirm the presence of multiple stellar populations in NGC 1783 and suggest that the MSTO of this cluster is formed by two distinct branches. In 7 clusters (ESO057-SC075, HODGE7, NGC1852, NGC1917, NGC1987, NGC2108, and NGC2154) we observed an intrinsic broadening of the MSTO that may suggest that these clusters have experienced a prolonged period of star formation (150-250 Myr). The CMDs of IC2146, NGC1644, NGC1652, NGC1795 and NGC1978 show no evidence of spread or bimodality. In summary 70$\pm$25% of our sample are not consistent with the simple, single stellar population hypotesis.

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