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球状星团IC4499的径向速度和金属丰度

Radial Velocity and Metallicity of the Globular Cluster IC4499 Obtained with AAOmega

Warren J. Hankey, Andrew A. Cole

摘要:

我们目前的径向速度和金属丰度的测量银河系遥远的南部球状星团IC 4499。我们从2 MASS点源星表中选取了几百颗位于星团内部和周围的红巨星,利用AAOmega摄谱仪获得了近红外钙三重态的光谱。对球状星团M4、M22和M68中的巨星进行了观测,以提供径向速度和金属丰度的比较对象。根据速度数据,我们得出结论,我们的目标中有43个是星团成员,这是迄今为止光谱研究的最大的IC 4499巨星样本。我们确定该星团的平均日心径向速度为31.5 ± 0.4 km/s,并发现最可能的中心速度色散为2.5 ± 0.5 km/s。这导致了一个动态的质量估计为93 ± 37000太阳质量的集群。我们是敏感的集群旋转的幅度约为1公里/秒,但没有证据表明集群旋转。在Carretta-Gratton标度上,团簇的金属丰度为[Fe/H] = -1.52 ± 0.12。星团的径向速度,以前高度不确定,是一致的成员在麒麟潮汐流,但也与晕的起源。该星团的水平分支形态比其金属丰度的平均值略红,但与晕的其他星团相比,它可能并不异常年轻。对星团运动学和金属丰度的新约束可能会使人们深入了解RR型天琴座恒星极高的比频率。

英文摘要:

We present radial velocity and metallicity measurements for the far-southern Galactic globular cluster IC4499. We selected several hundred target red giant stars in and around the cluster from the 2MASS point source catalog, and obtained spectra at the near-infrared calcium triplet using the AAOmega spectrograph. Observations of giants in globular clusters M4, M22, and M68 were taken to provide radial velocity and metallicity comparison objects. Based on velocity data we conclude that 43 of our targets are cluster members, by far the largest sample of IC4499 giants spectroscopically studied. We determine the mean heliocentric radial velocity of the cluster to be 31.5 plus or minus 0.4 km/s, and find the most likely central velocity dispersion to be 2.5 plus or minus 0.5 km/s. This leads to a dynamical mass estimate for the cluster of 93 plus or minus 37 thousand solar masses. We are sensitive to cluster rotation down to an amplitude of about 1 km/s, but no evidence for cluster rotation is seen. The cluster metallicity is found to be [Fe/H] = -1.52 plus or minus 0.12 on the Carretta-Gratton scale. The radial velocity of the cluster, previously highly uncertain, is consistent with membership in the Monoceros tidal stream, but also with a halo origin. The horizontal branch morphology of the cluster is slightly redder than average for its metallicity, but it is likely not unusually young compared to other clusters of the halo. The new constraints on the cluster kinematics and metallicity may give insight into its extremely high specific frequency of RR Lyrae stars.

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