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星系晕中五个贫金属球状星团周围潮外尾的宽视场光度测量

A wide-field photometric survey for extratidal tails around five metal-poor globular clusters in the Galactic halo

Sang-Hyun Chun, Jae-Woo Kim, Sangmo T. Sohn, Jang-Hyun Park, Wonyong Han, Ho-Il Kim, Young-Wook Lee, Myung Gyoon Lee, Sang-Gak Lee, Young-Jong Sohn

摘要:

利用加拿大-法国-夏威夷望远镜(CFHT)Megacam的宽视场深格里图像,研究了5个贫金属球状星团M15、M30、M53、NGC 5053和NGC 5466周围恒星在3 °视场内的空间位形。应用掩模滤波算法的观测恒星的颜色星等图,我们排序集群的成员恒星候选人,用于检查周围的目标集群的空间恒星分布的特点。平滑的表面密度图和叠加的等密度等值线表明,所有的五个贫金属球状星团表现出强有力的证据,在其潮汐半径的潮汐外高密度的功能,在延长的潮汐尾的形式在集群周围。观测到的潮外特征的方向显示了跟踪星团轨道的潮汐尾的签名,从它们的自行推断,以及与银河系动力学相互作用的影响。我们的发现包括在一对球状星团M53和NGC 5053周围探测到潮汐桥状特征和包络结构。观测到的靶团簇径向表面密度分布与King理论模型有一定的偏差,在0.5~0.7r_t处出现了一个突变,将超密度特征扩展到1.5~2r_t。不同角截面的径向面密度剖面和方位角数密度剖面都证实了这五个贫金属球状星团周围潮汐尾的高密度特征。我们的研究结果增加了进一步的观测证据,所观察到的贫金属晕球状星团起源于吸积卫星系统,表明合并的情况下形成的星系晕。

英文摘要:

Wide-field deep gri images obtained with the Megacam of the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope (CFHT) are used to investigate the spatial configuration of stars around five metal-poor globular cluster M15, M30, M53, NGC 5053, and NGC 5466, in a field-of-view ~3 degree. Applying a mask filtering algorithm to the color-magnitude diagrams of the observed stars, we sorted cluster's member star candidates that are used to examine the characteristics of the spatial stellar distribution surrounding the target clusters. The smoothed surface density maps and the overlaid isodensity contours indicate that all of the five metal-poor globular clusters exhibit strong evidence of extratidal overdensity features over their tidal radii, in the form of extended tidal tails around the clusters. The orientations of the observed extratidal features show signatures of tidal tails tracing the clusters' orbits, inferred from their proper motions, and effects of dynamical interactions with the Galaxy. Our findings include detections of a tidal bridge-like feature and an envelope structure around the pair of globular clusters M53 and NGC 5053. The observed radial surface density profiles of target clusters have a deviation from theoretical King models, for which the profiles show a break at 0.5~0.7r_t, extending the overdensity features out to 1.5~2r_t. Both radial surface density profiles for different angular sections and azimuthal number density profiles confirm the overdensity features of tidal tails around the five metal-poor globular clusters. Our results add further observational evidence that the observed metal-poor halo globular clusters originate from an accreted satellite system, indicative of the merging scenario of the formation of the Galactic halo.

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