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仙女座星系晕扩展星团EC4的光谱观测

A spectroscopic survey of EC4, an Extended Cluster in Andromeda's halo

M. L. M. Collins, S. C. Chapman, M. Irwin, R. Ibata, N. F. Martin, A. M. N. Ferguson, A. Huxor, G. F. Lewis, A. D. Mackey, A. W. McConnachie, N. Tanvir

摘要:

我们提出了一个光谱调查的候选红巨星分支恒星的扩展星团,EC 4,发现在晕的M31从我们的CFHT/MegaCam调查,重叠的潮汐流,流Cp和流铬。这些观测使用了安装在凯克II望远镜上的深度成像多目标光谱仪(DEIMOS),以获得Ca II三重态区域周围的光谱,分辨率约为1.3埃。在距离EC 4中心2个核半径范围内,位于红巨星分支上的6颗恒星的平均vr=-287.9 ^{+1.9}_{-2.4}km/s,速度色散为2.7^{+4.2}_{-2.7}km/s(考虑仪器误差)。得到的EC 4的质光比为M/L=6.7^{+15}_{-6.7}Msun/Lsun,这个值在我们推导的1 sigma误差范围内与球状星团一致。从我们的成员星的总光谱中,我们发现EC 4是贫金属的,[Fe/H]=-1.6+/-0.15。我们讨论了几个形成和演化的情况下,可以解释我们的运动学和金属丰度的限制EC 4,并得出结论,EC 4是最具可比性的扩展球状星团。我们还比较了运动学和金属丰度的EC 4流Cp和流铬,并发现,EC 4承担一个惊人的相似流Cp的速度,这两个结构是相同的,在他们的光谱和光度金属丰度。由此我们得出结论,EC 4可能与流Cp有关。

英文摘要:

We present a spectroscopic survey of candidate red giant branch stars in the extended star cluster, EC4, discovered in the halo of M31 from our CFHT/MegaCam survey, overlapping the tidal streams, Stream Cp and Stream Cr. These observations used the DEep Imaging Multi-Object Spectrograph (DEIMOS) mounted on the Keck II telescope to obtain spectra around the CaII triplet region with ~1.3 Angstroms resolution. Six stars lying on the red giant branch within 2 core-radii of the centre of EC4 are found to have an average vr=-287.9^{+1.9}_{-2.4}km/s and velocity dispersion of 2.7^{+4.2}_{-2.7}km/s, taking instrumental errors into account. The resulting mass-to-light ratio for EC4 is M/L=6.7^{+15}_{-6.7}Msun/Lsun, a value that is consistent with a globular cluster within the 1 sigma errors we derive. From the summed spectra of our member stars, we find EC4 to be metal-poor, with [Fe/H]=-1.6+/-0.15. We discuss several formation and evolution scenarios which could account for our kinematic and metallicity constraints on EC4, and conclude that EC4 is most comparable with an extended globular cluster. We also compare the kinematics and metallicity of EC4 with Stream Cp and Stream Cr, and find that EC4 bears a striking resemblance to Stream Cp in terms of velocity, and that the two structures are identical in terms of both their spectroscopic and photometric metallicities. From this we conclude that EC4 is likely related to Stream Cp.

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