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M81的全景:碎片场中的新恒星系统

A panoramic view of M81: New stellar systems in the debris field

M. Mouhcine, R. Ibata

摘要:

利用加拿大-法国-夏威夷望远镜上的MegaCam成像仪,我们已经分辨出了附近大旋涡星系M81(NGC 3031)外围的单个恒星,这些恒星远低于60 kpc * 58 kpc的贫金属恒星星族红巨星分支的尖端。在本文中,我们报告了在M81外围发现的新的年轻恒星系统。最显著的特征是沿着连接M 81和NGC 3077的南HI潮汐臂延伸的年轻恒星群链。这些恒星系统的颜色-星等图显示出明亮的主序星和红超巨星的羽状物,表明恒星形成的扩展事件。系统中最年轻的恒星的主序星关闭与4000万年前的年龄一致。新报告的恒星系统与M81周围碎片场中的其他已知年轻恒星系统有很强的相似性,它们的性质最好解释为这些系统是潮汐起源的。

英文摘要:

Using the MegaCam imager on the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope, we have resolved individual stars in the outskirts of the nearby large spiral galaxy M81 (NGC 3031) well below the tip of the red giant branch of metal-poor stellar populations over 60 kpc * 58 kpc. In this paper, we report the discovery of new young stellar systems in the outskirts of M81. The most prominent feature is a chain of clumps of young stars distributed along the extended southern HI tidal arm connecting M 81 and NGC 3077. The colour-magnitude diagrams of these stellar systems show plumes of bright main sequence stars and red supergiant stars, indicating extended events of star formation. The main sequence turn-offs of the youngest stars in the systems are consistent with ages of ~40 Myr. The newly reported stellar systems show strong similarities with other known young stellar systems in the debris field around M81, with their properties best explained by these systems being of tidal origin.

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