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高分辨率积分光光谱学的球状星团丰度。III。大麦云云:Fe和年龄

Globular Cluster Abundances from High-Resolution, Integrated-Light Spectroscopy. III. The Large Magellanic Cloud: Fe and Ages

J. E. Colucci, R. A. Bernstein, S. A. Cameron, A. McWilliam

摘要:

在本文中,我们改进了我们的方法的高分辨率光谱的积分光的未解决的球状星团(GC)的丰度分析。这种方法以前被证明用于分析旧的($>$ 10 Gyr)银河系GC。在这里,我们使用的训练集的9个GC在大麦云(LMC)的年轻的集群扩展的技术。根据数据的信噪比,我们使用每个星团20-100条Fe线成功地将老星团的年龄限制在$\sim$ 5 Gyr范围内,将$\sim$ 2 Gyr星团的年龄限制在1-2 Gyr范围内,将最年轻的星团(0.05-1 Gyr)的年龄限制在$\sim$ 2亿年的范围内。我们还表明,我们可以测量[Fe/H]在任何年龄小于12 Gyrs的集群与类似的或只有稍大的不确定性(0.1-0.25德克斯)比老银河系GC(0.1德克斯),稍大的不确定性是由于快速演化的恒星星族在这些年龄。在本文中,我们只提出了铁的丰度和年龄。在本系列的下一篇文章中,我们将对我们能够测量丰度的$\sim 20$元素进行完整的分析。对于这个样本中的几个星团,在文献中没有来自单个成员星的高分辨率丰度;我们的结果是第一个详细的化学丰度。本文中使用的光谱是在Las Campanas用杜邦望远镜上的阶梯光栅和麦哲伦粘土望远镜上的MIKE摄谱仪获得的。

英文摘要:

In this paper we refine our method for the abundance analysis of high resolution spectroscopy of the integrated light of unresolved globular clusters (GCs). This method was previously demonstrated for the analysis of old ($>$10 Gyr) Milky Way GCs. Here we extend the technique to young clusters using a training set of 9 GCs in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC). Depending on the signal-to-noise ratio of the data, we use 20-100 Fe lines per cluster to successfully constrain the ages of old clusters to within a $\sim$5 Gyr range, the ages of $\sim$2 Gyr clusters to a 1-2 Gyr range, and the ages of the youngest clusters (0.05-1 Gyr) to a $\sim$200 Myr range. We also demonstrate that we can measure [Fe/H] in clusters with any age less than 12 Gyrs with similar or only slightly larger uncertainties (0.1-0.25 dex) than those obtained for old Milky Way GCs (0.1 dex); the slightly larger uncertainties are due to the rapid evolution in stellar populations at these ages. In this paper, we present only Fe abundances and ages. In the next paper in this series, we present our complete analysis of the $\sim 20$ elements for which we are able to measure abundances. For several of the clusters in this sample, there are no high resolution abundances in the literature from individual member stars; our results are the first detailed chemical abundances available. The spectra used in this paper were obtained at Las Campanas with the echelle on the du Pont Telescope and with the MIKE spectrograph on the Magellan Clay Telescope.

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