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Bootes I星系的年龄和金属丰度

The Age and Metallicity of the Bootes I System

Joanne Hughes, George Wallerstein, Anne Bossi

摘要:

我们在华盛顿对牧夫座I矮球状星系中心的一个区域进行了测光,该星系在斯隆数字巡天(DR 5)中被发现为恒星过密度。我们表明,华盛顿过滤器是更有效的比斯隆过滤器在分离的矮星系中的贫金属关闭恒星的前景恒星。我们在现场检测到165个对象,并统计确定,超过40%的对象是非成员。我们的统计分析与较亮恒星的径向速度测量结果基本一致。我们发现,有一个明显的主序星关闭和亚巨星分支,那里有一些证据表明化学丰度的传播。任何年龄差异的证据都被限制在几十亿年内。最明亮的7个牧夫座I成员给出的加权平均铁丰度为[Fe/H]=-2.1+/-0.4,最佳拟合的等时线是14.1 Gyr,Z=0.0002模型,DM=19.11和E(B-V)=0.02。

英文摘要:

We present Washington photometry of a field central to the Bootes I dwarf spheroidal galaxy, which was discovered as a stellar overdensity in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (DR5). We show that the Washington filters are much more effective than the Sloan filters in separating the metal-poor turn-off stars in the dwarf galaxy from the foreground stars. We detect 165 objects in the field, and statistically determine that just over 40% of the objects are non-members. Our statistical analysis mostly agrees with radial velocity measurements of the brighter stars. We find that that there is a distinct main-sequence turn-off and subgiant branch, where there is some evidence of a spread in chemical abundance. Any evidence of an age spread is limited to a few billion years. The brightest 7 Bootes I members give a (photometric-color derived) weighted mean iron-abundance of [Fe/H]=-2.1+/-0.4, and the best-fit isochrone is the 14.1 Gyr, Z=0.0002 model, with DM=19.11 and E(B-V)=0.02.

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