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大麦云星团NGC1751的恒星形成历史

The star formation history of the Large Magellanic Cloud star cluster NGC1751

Stefano Rubele, Leo Girardi, Vera Kozhurina-Platais, Paul Goudfrooij, Leandro Kerber

摘要:

人口众多的大麦哲伦星系星团NGC 1751的HST/ACS颜色星等图(CMD)显示了一个广泛的主序星关闭和一个红巨星的双团块。我们发现,后者的功能是真实的,并将其与第一次出现的电子简并在H-耗尽的核心的星团恒星。然后,我们适用于NGC 1751数据的经典方法,通过CMD重建的恒星形成历史(SFH)恢复,为不同的半径对应的集群中心,集群郊区,和底层的LMC领域。平均SFH来自LMC字段被考虑到SFH恢复阶段的集群区域,在一个新的方法,这被证明是显着提高质量的SFH结果。对于集群中心,我们找到了一个最佳拟合的解决方案,对应于延长恒星形成的时间跨度为4.6亿年,而不是两个峰分离的200亿年赞成以前的工作的基础上等时线拟合。值得注意的是,我们的全局最佳拟合解决方案提供了对数据的极好拟合-卡方检验和残差接近理论最小值-再现了包括双红色团块在内的所有CMD特征。对于中心周围较大的环形区域,结果表明恒星形成的时间更长,但在这种情况下,结果的质量较低,可能是因为在该区域检测到的差异消光。因此,无法探测NGC 1751中是否存在年龄梯度。与我们以前的研究结果为SMC集群NGC 419,目前的结果为NGC 1751中心主张赞成多个恒星形成插曲(或继续恒星形成)是在起源的多个主要序列关闭麦哲伦云星团的年龄约1.5 Gyr。

英文摘要:

The HST/ACS colour-magnitude diagrams (CMD) of the populous LMC star cluster NGC1751 present both a broad main sequence turn-off and a dual clump of red giants. We show that the latter feature is real and associate it to the first appearance of electron-degeneracy in the H-exhausted cores of the cluster stars. We then apply to the NGC1751 data the classical method of star formation history (SFH) recovery via CMD reconstruction, for different radii corresponding to the cluster centre, the cluster outskirts, and the underlying LMC field. The mean SFH derived from the LMC field is taken into account during the stage of SFH-recovery in the cluster regions, in a novel approach which is shown to significantly improve the quality of the SFH results. For the cluster centre, we find a best-fitting solution corresponding to prolonged star formation for a for a timespan of 460 Myr, instead of the two peaks separated by 200 Myr favoured by a previous work based on isochrone fitting. Remarkably, our global best-fitting solution provides an excellent fit to the data - with chi^2 and residuals close to the theoretical minimum - reproducing all the CMD features including the dual red clump. The results for a larger ring region around the centre indicate even longer star formation, but in this case the results are of lower quality, probably because of the differential extinction detected in the area. Therefore, the presence of age gradients in NGC1751 could not be probed. Together with our previous findings for the SMC cluster NGC419, the present results for the NGC1751 centre argue in favour of multiple star formation episodes (or continued star formation) being at the origin of the multiple main sequence turn-offs in Magellanic Cloud clusters with ages around 1.5 Gyr.

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