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疏散星团NGC 188背后恒星流的探测:麒麟座星流的另一部分

Detection of a Stellar Stream Behind Open Cluster NGC 188: Another Part of the Monoceros Stream

Dana I. Casetti-Dinescu, Terrence M. Girard, Imants Platais, William F. van Altena

摘要:

本文介绍了WIYN/OPTIC对疏散星团NGC 188((l,b)=(122.8 \arcdeg,22.5 \arcdeg))的测光和天体测量的结果。我们将这些结果与Platais等人的自行和测光表相结合,证明了NGC 188背景中恒星过密度的存在。理论上的等时线与高密度的色星等图相吻合,年龄在6至10 Gyr之间,属于中等金属贫乏的群体([Fe/H] = -0.5至-1.0)。到超密度的距离估计在10.0到12.6千秒差距之间。自行表明,高密度的恒星星族是运动学冷的。距离估计和超密度的绝对自行与佩纳鲁比亚等人关于独角兽流形成的模型的预测相当吻合。这种材料的轨道构造合理的径向速度值,表明动态,这种材料是不可能属于厚盘。总的来说,这些证据表明,新发现的高密度是独角兽流的一部分。

英文摘要:

We present results from a WIYN/OPTIC photometric and astrometric survey of the field of the open cluster NGC 188 ((l,b) = (122.8\arcdeg, 22.5\arcdeg)). We combine these results with the proper-motion and photometry catalog of Platais et al. and demonstrate the existence of a stellar overdensity in the background of NGC 188. The theoretical isochrone fits to the color-magnitude diagram of the overdensity are consistent with an age between 6 and 10 Gyr and an intermediately metal poor population ([Fe/H] = -0.5 to -1.0). The distance to the overdensity is estimated to be between 10.0 and 12.6 kpc. The proper-motions indicate that the stellar population of the overdensity is kinematically cold. The distance estimate and the absolute proper motion of the overdensity agree reasonably well with the predictions of the Peñarrubia et al. model of the formation of the Monoceros stream. Orbits for this material constructed with plausible radial-velocity values, indicate that dynamically, this material is unlikely to belong to the thick disk. Taken together, this evidence suggests that the newly-found overdensity is part of the Monoceros stream.

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