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室女座恒星高密度的光度学金属丰度估算

A Photometric Metallicity Estimate of the Virgo Stellar Overdensity

Deokkeun An, Jennifer A. Johnson, Timothy C. Beers, Marc H. Pinsonneault, Donald M. Terndrup, Franck Delahaye, Young Sun Lee, Thomas Masseron, Brian Yanny

摘要:

我们使用光谱金属丰度测定良好的场星,对gri滤波器通带中恒星等时线的金属丰度灵敏度进行了校准,基于此,我们对室女座超密度带(VOD)中的单个主序星进行了光度金属丰度估算。室女座超密度带几乎覆盖了天空的1000度^[2]。尽管该方法对单个恒星的精度较低,但我们从北银河半球日心距离为~10 kpc至~20 kpc的70万颗恒星的光度测量中得出VOD金属丰度的[Fe/H] = -2.0 +/-0.1(内部)+/-0.5(系统)。VOD的金属丰度在Delta [Fe/H] < 0.2的范围内,与覆盖相同距离范围的场晕星的金属丰度没有区别。这一初步应用表明,SDSS gri通带可用于探测超过~10 kpc的主序星的性质,补充了对附近恒星的研究,这些恒星来自涉及u通带的金属敏感度更高的颜色指数。

英文摘要:

We determine photometric metal abundance estimates for individual main-sequence stars in the Virgo Overdensity (VOD), which covers almost 1000 deg^2 on the sky, based on a calibration of the metallicity sensitivity of stellar isochrones in the gri filter passbands using field stars with well-determined spectroscopic metal abundances. Despite the low precision of the method for individual stars, we derive [Fe/H] = -2.0 +/-0.1 (internal) +/-0.5 (systematic) for the metal abundance of the VOD from photometric measurements of 0.7 million stars in the Northern Galactic hemisphere with heliocentric distances from ~10 kpc to ~20 kpc. The metallicity of the VOD is indistinguishable, within Delta [Fe/H] < 0.2, from that of field halo stars covering the same distance range. This initial application suggests that the SDSS gri passbands can be used to probe the properties of main-sequence stars beyond ~10 kpc, complementing studies of nearby stars from more metallicity-sensitive color indices that involve the u passband.

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