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arXiv 0912.2638astro-ph.GAastro-ph.SR
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SMC星团NGC419的恒星形成历史

The star formation history of the SMC star cluster NGC419

Stefano Rubele, Leandro Kerber, Leo Girardi

摘要:

最近发现,丰富的SMC星团NGC 419在哈勃太空望远镜上的高级巡天相机的高分辨率通道中获得的清晰的颜色-星等图(CMD)中呈现出广泛的主序关闭和双红色巨星团。在这项工作中,我们适用于NGC 419数据的经典方法的恒星形成历史(SFH)的恢复,通过CMD重建,推导出第一次为一个星团的功能与多个关闭。集群金属丰度,红化,距离和二进制分数的值,在目前的观测允许的范围内变化。全局最佳拟合解决方案非常适合数据,以惊人的精度再现了所有CMD特征。相应的恒星形成率连同其随机误差和系统误差的估计一起提供。恒星的形成至少持续了7亿年,并在这段时间的中间有一个明显的高峰,年龄为1.5 Gyr。我们的研究结果主张多个恒星形成事件(或持续的恒星形成)是在麦哲伦星系团的多个主序列关闭的起源与年龄约1 Gyr。还有待检验的是,替代假设,如旋转引起的主序列扩展,是否可以产生类似的良好拟合的数据。

英文摘要:

The rich SMC star cluster NGC419 has recently been found to present both a broad main sequence turn-off and a dual red clump of giants, in the sharp colour-magnitude diagrams (CMD) derived from the High Resolution Channel of the Advanced Camera for Surveys on board the Hubble Space Telescope. In this work, we apply to the NGC419 data the classical method of star formation history (SFH) recovery via CMD reconstruction, deriving for the first time this function for a star cluster with multiple turn-offs. The values for the cluster metallicity, reddening, distance and binary fraction, were varied within the limits allowed by present observations. The global best-fitting solution is an excellent fit to the data, reproducing all the CMD features with striking accuracy. The corresponding star formation rate is provided together with estimates of its random and systematic errors. Star formation is found to last for at least 700 Myr, and to have a marked peak at the middle of this interval, for an age of 1.5 Gyr. Our findings argue in favour of multiple star formation episodes (or continued star formation) being at the origin of the multiple main sequence turn-offs in Magellanic Cloud clusters with ages around 1 Gyr. It remains to be tested whether alternative hypotheses, such as a main sequence spread caused by rotation, could produce similarly good fits to the data.

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