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在太阳附近有两个不同的晕群。恒星丰度比和运动学证据

Two distinct halo populations in the solar neighborhood. Evidence from stellar abundance ratios and kinematics

Poul E. Nissen, William J. Schuster

摘要:

精确的丰度比被确定为94颗矮星,5200 < Teff < 6300 K,-1.6 < [Fe/H] <-0.4,距离D < 335 pc。它们中的大多数具有晕运动学,但包括16个厚盘星。从VLT/UVES和NOT/FIES光谱测量原子线的等效宽度,分辨率分别为R = 55000和R = 40000。基于MARCS模型的LTE丰度分析被应用于获得Na、Mg、Si、Ca、Ti、Cr和Ni相对于Fe的精确微分丰度比。晕星分为两个族群,以[alpha/Fe]区分,其中alpha是指Mg,Si,Ca和Ti的平均丰度。[Na/Fe]和[Ni/Fe]的差异也存在,这两个丰度比之间存在非常明显的相关性。“高α”恒星可能是古老的盘状或凸起恒星,通过合并卫星星系而“加热”到晕运动学,或者它们可能是在原银河系气体云坍缩期间形成的第一颗恒星。“低α”恒星的运动学表明,它们是从矮星系中吸积而来的,其中一些可能起源于欧米茄Cen祖星系。

英文摘要:

Precise abundance ratios are determined for 94 dwarf stars with 5200 < Teff < 6300 K, -1.6 < [Fe/H] < -0.4, and distances D < 335 pc. Most of them have halo kinematics, but 16 thick-disk stars are included. Equivalent widths of atomic lines are measured from VLT/UVES and NOT/FIES spectra with resolutions R = 55000 and R = 40000, respectively. An LTE abundance analysis based on MARCS models is applied to derive precise differential abundance ratios of Na, Mg, Si, Ca, Ti, Cr, and Ni with respect to Fe. The halo stars fall into two populations, clearly separated in [alpha/Fe], where alpha refers to the average abundance of Mg, Si, Ca, and Ti. Differences in [Na/Fe] and [Ni/Fe] are also present with a remarkably clear correlation between these two abundance ratios. The `high-alpha' stars may be ancient disk or bulge stars `heated' to halo kinematics by merging satellite galaxies or they could have formed as the first stars during the collapse of a proto-Galactic gas cloud. The kinematics of the `low-alpha' stars suggest that they have been accreted from dwarf galaxies, and that some of them may originate from the omega Cen progenitor galaxy.

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