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人马座dSph潮汐流中的老疏散星团--是朋友还是亲戚?

Old open clusters in the Sagittarius dSph tidal stream -- kith or kin?

Giovanni Carraro, Thomas Bensby

摘要:

一个广泛支持的银河系圆盘形成的假设是,它是由内而外地由吸积事件积累的物质形成的。人马座矮球状星系(Sgr dSph)是这种吸积的最好例子,其持续的破坏导致其恒星沉积在银河系晕和外盘中。因此,寻找Sgr dSph对银河系圆盘形成的贡献的可能特征是很有吸引力的。有趣的是,Sgr dSph流的模型清楚地表明,拖尾尾穿过银河系外盘,与一些反中心的老疏散星团的银河中心距离相同。我们在这封信中调查的可能性,两个最外面的老疏散星团,伯克利~29和Saurer~1,可能已经形成的Sgr dSph内,然后留在银河系外盘作为潮汐与银河系的相互作用的结果。这两个星团的实际位置,在Sgr dSph拖尾内,与这种情况是相容的,它们的化学和运动学性质,以及我们目前对Sgr dSph年龄-金属丰度关系的理解,进一步支持了这种可能的关联。因此,我们认为老的疏散星团Berkeley~29和Saurer~1很可能起源于河外。

英文摘要:

A widely supported formation scenario for the Galactic disc is that it formed inside-out from material accumulated via accretion events. The Sagittarius dwarf spheroidal galaxy (Sgr dSph) is the best example of a such accretion, and its ongoing disruption has resulted in that its stars are being deposited in the Milky Way halo and outer disc. It is therefore appealing to search for possible signatures of the Sgr dSph contribution to the build-up of the Galactic disc. Interestingly, models of the Sgr dSph stream indicate clearly that the trailing tail passes through the outer Galactic disc, at the same galactocentric distance as some anti-centre old open star clusters. We investigate in this Letter the possibility that the two outermost old open clusters, Berkeley~29 and Saurer~1, could have formed inside the Sgr dSph and then left behind in the outer Galactic disc as a result of tidal interaction with the Milky Way. The actual location of these two star clusters, inside the Sgr dSph trailing tail, is compatible with this scenario, and their chemical and kinematical properties, together with our present understanding of the age-metallicity relationship in the Sgr dSph, lends further support to this possible association. Hence, we find it likely that the old open star clusters Berkeley~29 and Saurer~1 have extra-galactic origins.

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