牧夫座III恒星超密度中的动能和金属丰度:一个被破坏的矮星系?
Kinematics and Metallicities in the Bootes III Stellar Overdensity: a Disrupted Dwarf Galaxy?
摘要:
我们报告的结果进行了光谱研究的牧夫座III(BooIII)恒星过密度与Hectospec多光纤光谱仪的MMT望远镜。已经测量了193颗BooIII候选星的径向速度,这些候选星的星等和颜色与其上部主序和下部红巨星分支以及一些水平分支候选星一致。从20个确定的BooIII成员中,我们测得系统速度Vsun =197.5 ± 3.8 km/s,速度色散sigma_o=14.0 ± 3.2 km/s。我们使用较大的速度色散和隐含的高度径向轨道,以及Grillmair(2009)和恒星丰度的形态学证据,认为BooIII可能是第一个在束缚矮星系和完全不受束缚的潮汐流之间的过渡状态中观察到的已知物体。
英文摘要:
We report the results of a spectroscopic study of the Bootes III (BooIII) stellar overdensity carried out with the Hectospec multifiber spectrograph on the MMT telescope. Radial velocities have been measured for 193 BooIII candidate stars selected to have magnitudes and colors consistent with its upper main sequence and lower red giant branch, as well as a number of horizontal branch candidates. From 20 identified candidate BooIII members, we measure a systemic velocity of V_sun=197.5+-3.8 km/s and a velocity dispersion of sigma_o=14.0+-3.2 km/s. We use the somewhat large velocity dispersion and the implied highly radial orbit, along with morphological evidence from Grillmair (2009) and stellar abundances, to argue that BooIII is likely the first known object observed in a transitional state between being a bound dwarf galaxy and a completely unbound tidal stream.
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