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用AAOmega观测的晕状球状星团:暗物质含量、金属丰度和潮汐加热

Halo globular clusters observed with AAOmega: dark matter content, metallicity and tidal heating

Richard R. Lane, László L. Kiss, Geraint F. Lewis, Rodrigo A. Ibata, Arnaud Siebert, Timothy R. Bedding, Péter Székely, Zoltán Balog, Gyula M. Szabó

摘要:

球状星团已被证明对我们理解许多重要的天体物理现象至关重要。在这里,我们分析了光谱观测的10个光环球状星团,以确定其暗物质的内容,其潮汐加热的银河系盘和晕,描述其金属丰度和牛顿动力学解释其运动学的可能性。我们分析了所有星团中的大量成员,使我们能够一起解决所有这些问题,我们已经包括NGC 288和M30,以与以前的研究重叠。我们发现,任何平坦的速度色散分布在我们的集群的外部区域可以解释潮汐加热。我们还发现,我们所有的GC具有M/L_V < 5,因此,我们推断所观察到的动力学不需要暗物质,或重力的修改。我们认为,在遥远的集群潮汐加热签名的缺乏表明,晕不是三轴的。测量了每个星团的等温自转,M4和NGC 288的自转速度分别为0.9 +/- 0.1 km/s和0.25 +/- 0.15 km/s。我们还间接测量了NGC 6752的潮汐半径,确定了一个比目前文献值更现实的数字。最后,一个未解决的和有趣的难题是关于所有十个集群的外部区域的冷却。

英文摘要:

Globular clusters have proven to be essential to our understanding of many important astrophysical phenomena. Here we analyse spectroscopic observations of ten Halo globular clusters to determine their dark matter content, their tidal heating by the Galactic disc and halo, describe their metallicities and the likelihood that Newtonian dynamics explain their kinematics. We analyse a large number of members in all clusters, allowing us to address all these issues together, and we have included NGC 288 and M30 to overlap with previous studies. We find that any flattening of the velocity dispersion profiles in the outer regions of our clusters can be explained by tidal heating. We also find that all our GCs have M/L_V < 5, therefore, we infer the observed dynamics do not require dark matter, or a modification of gravity. We suggest that the lack of tidal heating signatures in distant clusters indicates the Halo is not triaxial. The isothermal rotations of each cluster are measured, with M4 and NGC 288 exhibiting rotation at a level of 0.9 +/- 0.1 km/s and 0.25 +/- 0.15 km/s, respectively. We also indirectly measure the tidal radius of NGC 6752, determining a more realistic figure for this cluster than current literature values. Lastly, an unresolved and intriguing puzzle is uncovered with regard to the cooling of the outer regions of all ten clusters.

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