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关于银盘的金属丰度梯度

On the metallicity gradient of the Galactic disk

S. Pedicelli, G. Bono, B. Lemasle, P. Francois, M. Groenewegen, J. Lub, J. W. Pel, D. Laney, A. Piersimoni, M. Romaniello, R. Buonanno, F. Caputo, S. Cassisi, F… 展开作者

S. Pedicelli, G. Bono, B. Lemasle, P. Francois, M. Groenewegen, J. Lub, J. W. Pel, D. Laney, A. Piersimoni, M. Romaniello, R. Buonanno, F. Caputo, S. Cassisi, F. Castelli, S. Leurini, A. Pietrinferni, F. Primas, J. Pritchard

摘要:

目的:银河系恒星盘中的铁丰度梯度为这个重要的银河系组成部分的化学演化提供了基本的限制。然而,在固定的银心距离上,平均斜率的分布比估计的不确定性要大。研究方法:为了提供这些趋势的定量约束,我们采用了铁丰度为265经典造父变星(超过50%的目前已知的样品)的基础上,无论是高分辨率光谱或光度金属丰度指数。均匀的距离估计使用近红外周期亮度关系。样本覆盖了四个盘象限,它们的银心距离范围从~5到~17 kpc。结果:整个样品的线性回归提供了-0.051+/-0.004 dex/kpc的铁梯度。在误差范围内,上面的斜率与先前基于造父变星或覆盖类似银心距离的疏散星团的估计相当吻合。然而,一旦我们将样本分为内盘(Rg < 8 kpc)和外盘造父变星,我们发现前一区域的斜率(-0.130+/-0.015 dex/kpc)比后一区域的斜率(-0.042+/-0.004 dex/kpc)陡约3倍。我们发现,在外盘,贫金属造父变星(MP,[Fe/H]<-0.02dex)和富金属造父变星(MR)在四个盘象限的径向分布从盘的最里面向外盘区域移动时,没有显示出明显的趋势。我们还发现MP和MR造父变星在第一象限和第三象限的相对分数在8 sigma(MP)和15 sigma(MR)水平上不同。

英文摘要:

Aims: The iron abundance gradient in the Galactic stellar disk provides fundamental constraints on the chemical evolution of this important Galaxy component. However the spread around the mean slope is, at fixed Galactocentric distance, larger than estimated uncertainties. Methods: To provide quantitative constraints on these trends we adopted iron abundances for 265 classical Cepheids (more than 50% of the currently known sample) based either on high-resolution spectra or on photometric metallicity indices. Homogeneous distances were estimated using near-infrared Period-Luminosity relations. The sample covers the four disk quadrants and their Galactocentric distances range from ~5 to ~17 kpc. Results: A linear regression over the entire sample provides an iron gradient of -0.051+/-0.004 dex/kpc. The above slope agrees quite well, within the errors, with previous estimates based either on Cepheids or on open clusters covering similar Galactocentric distances. However, once we split the sample in inner (Rg < 8 kpc) and outer disk Cepheids we found that the slope (-0.130+/-0.015 dex/kpc) in the former region is ~3 times steeper than the slope in the latter one (-0.042+/-0.004 dex/kpc). We found that in the outer disk the radial distribution of metal-poor (MP, [Fe/H]<-0.02 dex) and metal-rich (MR) Cepheids across the four disk quadrants does not show a clear trend when moving from the innermost to the external disk regions. We also found that the relative fractions of MP and MR Cepheids in the 1st and in the 3rd quadrant differ at 8 sigma (MP) and 15 sigma (MR) level.

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