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M87中贫金属球状团簇的色-星等关系:来自深HST/ACS成像的证实

The Color-Magnitude Relation for Metal-Poor Globular Clusters in M87: Confirmation From Deep HST/ACS Imaging

Eric W. Peng, Andres Jordan, John P. Blakeslee, Steffen Mieske, Patrick Cote, Laura Ferrarese, William E. Harris, Juan P. Madrid, Gerhardt R. Meurer

摘要:

贫金属球状星团(GC)是我们与恒星形成和星系形成的最早时期的联系。使用深,高质量成像的河外GC系统的研究揭示了一个小的,但显着的斜率的颜色-星等关系的金属贫乏GC在一些星系。我们提出了一个研究的M87 GC系统使用深,档案HST/ACS成像与F606W和F814W过滤器,其中我们发现一个显着的颜色-幅度关系的金属贫困GC。在I与V-I色星等图($γ_I=-0.024\pm0.006$)中,这种关系的斜率与基于先前发表的ACS室女星系团巡天数据的结果的预期完全一致。该关系由最明亮的GC驱动,即具有$M_I<-10$的GC,并且当拟合比$M_I=-7.8$亮的贫金属GC时,其意义最大,该光度比我们拟合的蓝色贫金属GC的光度函数(LF)的高斯平均值暗约1等(比所有GC的平均值暗约0.8等)。这些结果表明,有一个质量尺度的相关性开始,并与自富集驱动质量金属丰度关系的情况是一致的。我们表明,先前测量的半光半径M87 GC从最佳拟合PSF卷积国王模型是一致的,在这项研究中更准确的测量,我们还解释了如何的颜色-幅度的关系,金属贫困GC是真实的,不能是一个文物的测光。我们拟合高斯和进化的Schechter函数到所有颜色的GC的光度分布,以及分为蓝色和红色的子群体,发现蓝色GC具有更明亮的平均光度和更窄的分布比红色GC。最后给出了2250颗M87星系的天体测量和测光星表。

英文摘要:

Metal-poor globular clusters (GCs) are our local link to the earliest epochs of star formation and galaxy building. Studies of extragalactic GC systems using deep, high-quality imaging have revealed a small but significant slope to the color-magnitude relation for metal-poor GCs in a number of galaxies. We present a study of the M87 GC system using deep, archival HST/ACS imaging with the F606W and F814W filters, in which we find a significant color-magnitude relation for the metal-poor GCs. The slope of this relation in the I vs. V-I color-magnitude diagram ($γ_I=-0.024\pm0.006$) is perfectly consistent with expectations based on previously published results using data from the ACS Virgo Cluster Survey. The relation is driven by the most luminous GCs, those with $M_I<-10$, and its significance is largest when fitting metal-poor GCs brighter than $M_I=-7.8$, a luminosity which is ~1 mag fainter than our fitted Gaussian mean for the luminosity function (LF) of blue, metal-poor GCs (~0.8 mag fainter than the mean for all GCs). These results indicate that there is a mass scale at which the correlation begins, and is consistent with a scenario where self-enrichment drives a mass-metallicity relationship. We show that previously measured half-light radii of M87 GCs from best-fit PSF-convolved King models are consistent with the more accurate measurements in this study, and we also explain how the color-magnitude relation for metal-poor GCs is real and cannot be an artifact of the photometry. We fit Gaussian and evolved Schechter functions to the luminosity distribution of GCs across all colors, as well as divided into blue and red subpopulations, finding that the blue GCs have a brighter mean luminosity and a narrower distribution than the red GCs. Finally, we present a catalog of astrometry and photometry for 2250 M87 GCs.

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