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大麦云星云的扩展主序关闭星团--球状星团演化中的缺失环节

The Extended Main-Sequence Turn-off Clusters of the Large Magellanic Cloud - Missing links in Globular Cluster Evolution

Stefan C. Keller, A. Dougal Mackey, Gary S. Da Costa

摘要:

最近对大麦云星云(LMC)中中等年龄(1 - 3 Gyr)大质量星团的观测表明,大多数星团具有分叉或扩展的主序关断(EMSTO)形态。这种效应可以被理解为是由恒星星族中随后的恒星形成引起的,这些恒星的年龄差异达到了5000万~ 30000万年。同样,这种数量级的年龄分布也可以用来解释古代球状星团中轻元素丰度的变化。在本文中,我们探讨的命题,表现出EMSTO现象的集群是一个大规模的集群,自然会导致特定的化学性质的古老的球状星团人口的演化的一般阶段。我们发现,隔离EMSTO集群的中间年龄是观测选择效应的后果。在我们提出的方案中,EMSTO现象是相同的,它建立了轻元素丰度的变化是无处不在的古老的球状星团人口。我们的方案作出了强有力的预测:EMSTO集群将表现出丰富的变化,轻元素的特点,古老的GC人口。

英文摘要:

Recent observations of intermediate age (1 - 3 Gyr) massive star clusters in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) have revealed that the majority possess bifurcated or extended main-sequence turn-off (EMSTO) morphologies. This effect can be understood to arise from subsequent star formation amongst the stellar population with age differences between constituent stars amounting to 50 - 300 Myr. Age spreads of this order are similarly invoked to explain the light element abundance variations witnessed in ancient globular clusters. In this paper we explore the proposition that the clusters exhibiting the EMSTO phenomenon are a general phase in the evolution of massive clusters, one that naturally leads to the particular chemical properties of the ancient globular cluster population. We show that the isolation of EMSTO clusters to intermediate ages is the consequence of observational selection effects. In our proposed scenario, the EMSTO phenomenon is identical to that which establishes the light element abundance variations that are ubiquitous in the ancient globular cluster population. Our scenario makes a strong prediction: EMSTO clusters will exhibit abundance variations in the light elements characteristic of the ancient GC population.

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