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NGC 2477的白矮星年龄

The White Dwarf Age of NGC 2477

Elizabeth J. Jeffery, Ted von Hippel, Steven DeGennaro, David van Dyk, Nathan Stein, William H. Jefferys

摘要:

本文利用HST/WFPC 2对疏散星团NGC 2477进行了深测光观测。通过识别七个星团白矮星候选者,我们提出了一个分析的白矮星年龄的这个集群,使用传统的方法拟合等时线的白矮星冷却序列,并采用一种新的贝叶斯统计技术,已开发出我们的小组。这种新的方法进行客观的,同时模型拟合的集群和恒星参数(即年龄,金属量,距离,红化,以及个别恒星的质量,质量比,和集群成员)的测光。基于这一分析,我们测量了一个白矮星的年龄为1.035 +/- 0.054 +/- 0.087 Gyr(不确定性分别代表模型拟合的良好性和模型之间的差异),与星团的主序星关闭年龄吻合得很好。这项工作是我们正在进行的利用疏散星团标定主序星熄灭和白矮星年龄的工作的一部分,并将星团年龄的精度提高到~5%的水平。

英文摘要:

We present deep photometric observations of the open cluster NGC 2477 using HST/WFPC2. By identifying seven cluster white dwarf candidates, we present an analysis of the white dwarf age of this cluster, using both the traditional method of fitting isochrones to the white dwarf cooling sequence, and by employing a new Bayesian statistical technique that has been developed by our group. This new method performs an objective, simultaneous model fit of the cluster and stellar parameters (namely age, metallicity, distance, reddening, as well as individual stellar masses, mass ratios, and cluster membership) to the photometry. Based on this analysis, we measure a white dwarf age of 1.035 +/- 0.054 +/- 0.087 Gyr (uncertainties represent the goodness of model fits and discrepancy among models, respectively), in good agreement with the cluster's main sequence turnoff age. This work is part of our ongoing work to calibrate main sequence turnoff and white dwarf ages using open clusters, and to improve the precision of cluster ages to the ~5% level.

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