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Local Group矮星系NGC 6822中的分级恒星结构

Hierarchical Stellar Structures in the Local Group Dwarf Galaxy NGC 6822

Dimitrios A. Gouliermis, Stefan Schmeja, Ralf S. Klessen, W. J. G. de Blok, Fabian Walter

摘要:

本文对本星系群矮星系不规则星系NGC 6822中年龄<5亿年的蓝色恒星的星团总体和等级结构进行了全面的研究。我们的观测材料包括最完整的星系光学恒星目录,来自8.2米SUBARU望远镜的Suprime-Cam成像。我们确定了47个不同的星团与应用程序的最近邻密度方法,这个目录的检测阈值为3sigma以上的平均恒星密度。检测到的簇的大小分布可以很好地近似为高斯峰在~ 68 pc。它们的星系团质量函数非常符合指数α ~ 1.5 +/- 0.7的幂律,与其他本群星系和星系团初始质量函数一致。最近邻密度方法的应用,不同的密度阈值,而不是3西格玛,使识别恒星的浓度在不同的长度尺度。用这种方法绘制的恒星密度图直接证明了NGC 6822的恒星浓度具有等级结构。我们说明了这个层次的所谓的“树状图”检测到的恒星结构,这表明大多数检测到的结构分裂成几个子结构,至少有三个级别。我们量化的层次结构,这些结构的最小生成树方法的使用。我们在NGC 6822中观察到的恒星团簇的形态结构类似于湍流星际物质,这表明pc和kpc尺度的湍流可能是调节NGC 6822中恒星团簇形成的主要因素。

英文摘要:

We present a comprehensive study of the star cluster population and the hierarchical structure in the clustering of blue stars with ages <~ 500 Myr in the Local Group dwarf irregular galaxy NGC 6822. Our observational material comprises the most complete optical stellar catalog of the galaxy from imaging with the Suprime-Cam at the 8.2-m SUBARU Telescope. We identify 47 distinct star clusters with the application of the nearest-neighbor density method to this catalog for a detection threshold of 3sigma above the average stellar density. The size distribution of the detected clusters can be very well approximated by a Gaussian with a peak at ~ 68 pc. Their cluster mass function is fitted very well by a power-law with index alpha ~ 1.5 +/- 0.7, consistent with other Local Group galaxies and the cluster initial mass function. The application of the nearest-neighbor density method for various density thresholds, other than 3sigma, enabled the identification of stellar concentrations in various length-scales. The stellar density maps constructed with this technique provide a direct proof of hierarchically structured stellar concentrations in NGC 6822. We illustrate this hierarchy by the so-called "dendrogram" of the detected stellar structures, which demonstrates that most of the detected structures split up into several substructures over at least three levels. We quantify the hierarchy of these structures with the use of the minimum spanning tree method. The morphological hierarchy in stellar clustering, which we observe in NGC 6822 resembles that of the turbulent interstellar matter, suggesting that turbulence on pc- and kpc-scales has been probably the major agent that regulated clustered star formation in NGC 6822.

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