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球状星团的内禀铁扩散和一个新的金属量标度

Intrinsic iron spread and a new metallicity scale for Globular Clusters

Eugenio Carretta, Angela Bragaglia, Raffaele Gratton, Valentina D'Orazi, Sara Lucatello

摘要:

我们利用FLAMES@VLT(每个星系团中分别有100颗GIRAFFE和10颗UVES星)收集了19个星系团球状星团(GC)中约2000颗红巨星分支(RGB)星的光谱。这些观测提供了一个前所未有的,精确的,均匀的数据集的铁丰度在GC。我们用它来研究铁的宇宙散射,发现就铁而言,大多数GC仍然可以被认为是单金属的,因为铁的散射上限小于0.05 dex,这意味着均匀度优于12%。我们发现Fe的散射似乎依赖于光度,这可能是由于众所周知的上RGB恒星的恒星大气不足和/或固有的变化。它似乎也与集群的性质,如质量,表明更大的散射在更大的质量GC这可能是一个(小)真正的内在散射。这19个GC涵盖了银河系GC大部分的金属丰度范围,定义了一个准确和更新的金属丰度尺度。我们提供了一些现有的尺度变换方程。我们还提供了新的值[Fe/H],在我们的规模,所有的GC在哈里斯的目录。

英文摘要:

We have collected spectra of about 2000 red giant branch (RGB) stars in 19 Galactic globular clusters (GC) using FLAMES@VLT (about 100 star with GIRAFFE and about 10 with UVES, respectively, in each GC). These observations provide an unprecedented, precise, and homogeneous data-set of Fe abundances in GCs. We use it to study the cosmic scatter of iron and find that, as far as Fe is concerned, most GCs can still be considered mono-metallic, since the upper limit to the scatter in iron is less than 0.05 dex, meaning that the degree of homogeneity is better than 12%. The scatter in Fe we find seems to have a dependence on luminosity, possibly due to the well-known inadequacies of stellar atmospheres for upper-RGB stars and/or to intrinsic variability. It also seems to be correlated with cluster properties, like the mass, indicating a larger scatter in more massive GCs which is likely a (small) true intrinsic scatter. The 19 GCs, covering the metallicity range of the bulk of Galactic GCs, define an accurate and updated metallicity scale. We provide transformation equations for a few existing scales. We also provide new values of [Fe/H], on our scale, for all GCs in the Harris' catalogue.

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