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M81群中的矮球状体-金属丰度分布函数和人口梯度

Dwarf spheroidals in the M81 Group - Metallicity distribution functions and population gradients

Sophia Lianou, Eva K. Grebel, Andreas Koch

摘要:

我们研究的矮球状星系在附近的M81集团,以构建其光度金属丰度分布,并调查人口梯度的潜在存在。我们选择了所有的矮椭球体与可用的哈勃太空望远镜/高级相机的调查档案观测,共九个。我们插值等时线,以便分配一个光度金属丰度的选择框内的每个矮星系的颜色星等图中的每个恒星。我们假设矮椭球体主要包含一个古老的恒星星族。为了寻找金属丰度梯度,我们研究了两个恒星星族的空间分布,我们根据它们的金属丰度分开。结果,我们提出的光度金属丰度分布函数,累积直方图和平滑的密度图的贫金属和富金属的恒星,以及中间年龄的恒星。从我们的光度数据中,我们发现,所有的矮椭球体显示出广泛的金属丰度,平均值是典型的老和贫金属系统,除了一个矮椭球体,即IKN。我们的一些矮椭球体表现出过渡型矮星的特征。与本星系群过渡型矮星相比,M81星系群的矮星在给定光度下的平均金属丰度值似乎略高。这里考虑的所有矮椭球体似乎表现出人口梯度或空间变化的质心的金属贫和富金属人口。此外,在所有这些恒星中都发现了明亮的AGB星,其空间分布表明它们与老恒星混合得很好。

英文摘要:

We study the dwarf spheroidal galaxies in the nearby M81 group in order to construct their photometric metallicity distributions and to investigate the potential presence of population gradients. We select all the dwarf spheroidals with available Hubble Space Telescope / Advanced Camera for Surveys archival observations, nine in total. We interpolate isochrones so as to assign a photometric metallicity to each star within a selection box in the color-magnitude diagram of each dwarf galaxy. We assume that the dwarf spheroidals contain mainly an old stellar population. In order to search for metallicity gradients, we examine the spatial distribution of two stellar populations that we separate according to their metallicities. As a result, we present the photometric metallicity distribution functions, the cumulative histograms and smoothed density maps of the metal-poor and metal-rich stars as well as of the intermediate-age stars. From our photometric data we find that all the dwarf spheroidals show a wide range in metallicities, with mean values that are typical for old and metal-poor systems, with the exception of one dwarf spheroidal, namely IKN. Some of our dwarf spheroidals exhibit characteristics of transition-type dwarfs. Compared to the Local Group transition type dwarfs, the M81 group ones appear to have mean metallicity values slightly more metal-rich at a given luminosity. All the dwarf spheroidals considered here appear to exhibit either population gradients or spatial variations in the centroids of their metal-poor and metal-rich population. In addition, there are luminous AGB stars detected in all of them with spatial distributions suggesting that they are well mixed with the old stars.

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