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NGC 300瞬态:测量祖细胞质量的替代方法

The NGC 300 Transient: An Alternative Method For Measuring Progenitor Masses

Stephanie M. Gogarten, Julianne J. Dalcanton, Jeremiah W. Murphy, Benjamin F. Williams, Karoline Gilbert, Andrew Dolphin

摘要:

我们提出了一种测量恒星经历后期恒星演化的瞬态事件的前兆质量的替代技术。我们使用成熟的恒星星族建模技术对NGC 300(NGC 300 OT 2008 -1)中最近瞬变事件发生地周围的恒星进行年龄测定。由于几乎所有的恒星都形成于星团中,这些星团在物理上保持联系的时间比最大质量恒星的寿命还要长,因此周围的恒星必须与瞬变共享一个共同的关闭质量。我们发现NGC 300 OT 2008 -1的前身被800万至1300万年前在一次爆发中形成的恒星所包围,置信度为70%。因此,瞬变可能是由于一个祖先的质量下降之间的主要序列关闭质量(12 Msun)和最大恒星质量(25 Msun)的等时线界定这个年龄范围。我们的特点,这种技术在确定历史和未来的瞬变和超新星(SNe)的前体质量的一般适用性,注意到它既不需要前体成像,也不需要亚弧秒精度的瞬态的位置。它也是基于主序的物理学原理,因此可能是一个比将演化轨迹拟合到前兆震级更可靠的前兆质量来源。我们推测,如果前身质量接近17 Msun,那么在NGC 300 OT 2008 -1这样的光学瞬变和缺失的II-P型SNe之间可能存在联系,即所谓的“红超巨星问题”。"

英文摘要:

We present an alternative technique for measuring the precursor masses of transient events in stars undergoing late stage stellar evolution. We use the well-established techniques of stellar population modeling to age-date the stars surrounding the site of the recent transient event in NGC 300 (NGC 300 OT2008-1). The surrounding stars must share a common turnoff mass with the transient, since almost all stars form in stellar clusters that remain physically associated for periods longer than the lifetime of the most massive stars. We find that the precursor of NGC 300 OT2008-1 is surrounded by stars that formed in a single burst between 8-13 Myr ago, with 70% confidence. The transient was therefore likely to be due to a progenitor whose mass falls between the main sequence turnoff mass (12 Msun) and the maximum stellar mass (25 Msun) found for isochrones bounding this age range. We characterize the general applicability of this technique in identifying precursor masses of historic and future transients and supernovae (SNe), noting that it requires neither precursor imaging nor sub-arcsecond accuracy in the position of the transient. It is also based on the well-understood physics of the main sequence, and thus may be a more reliable source of precursor masses than fitting evolutionary tracks to precursor magnitudes. We speculate that if the progenitor mass is close to 17 Msun, there may be a connection between optical transients such as NGC 300 OT2008-1 and the missing type II-P SNe, known as the "red supergiant problem."

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