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arXiv 0905.3389astro-ph.GAastro-ph.SR
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用OGLE-III RR天琴座星导出的大麦哲伦星系晕的结构

The Structure of the Large Magellanic Halo Stellar Halo Derived Using OGLE-III RR Lyr stars

O. Pejcha, K. Z. Stanek

摘要:

利用最近公布的OGLE-III星表,研究了大麦云星云(LMC)中17692颗基模天琴座RR星的星晕结构。我们在周期、振幅和幅度上应用保守的削减,以去除混合和其他污染。我们使用周期-光度和周期-颜色的关系,以确定我们的最终样本的9393颗恒星的每一颗恒星的距离和消光。为了确定我们的方法的分散性,我们比较了在覆盖区域的边缘处的两个区域中的距离分布与中心区域。我们确定的内在的视线分散中心为0.135等或3.21千秒差距(半高宽为0.318等或7.56千秒差距),假设在一个边缘区域的深度为零。我们应用的保守切割显著减少了导出的深度。此外,我们发现RRab星的分布是变形的,在这个意义上,恒星的东侧比西侧更接近。我们将RRab分布建模为三轴椭球,并确定其轴比为1:2.00:3.50,最长轴从视线倾斜6度。我们分析的另一个结果是大麦哲伦星云的灭绝图和内部变红图,我们公开了这些图。

英文摘要:

We use the recently released OGLE-III catalog of 17692 fundamental mode RR Lyr (RRab) stars in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) to investigate the structure of its stellar halo. We apply conservative cuts in period, amplitude and magnitude to remove blends and other contamination. We use period--luminosity and period--color relations to determine distance and extinction of every star in our final sample of 9393 stars. In order to determine the scatter of our method, we compare the distributions of distances in two regions at the edges of the covered area with a central region. We determine the intrinsic line-of-sight dispersion in the center to be 0.135 mag or 3.21 kpc (FWHM of 0.318 mag or 7.56 kpc), assuming zero depth in one of the edge regions. The conservative cuts we apply reduce the derived depth significantly. Furthermore, we find that the distribution of RRab stars is deformed in the sense that stars on the Eastern side are closer than on the Western side. We model the RRab distribution as a triaxial ellipsoid and determine its axes ratios to be 1:2.00:3.50 with the longest axis inclined by 6 degrees from the line of sight. Another result of our analysis is an extinction map of the LMC and a map of internal reddening, which we make publicly available.

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