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在Milky Way核球中首次发现蓝离散星

The First Detection of Blue Straggler Stars in the Milky Way Bulge

William I. Clarkson, Kailash C. Sahu, Jay Anderson, R. Michael Rich, T. Ed Smith, Thomas M. Brown, Howard E. Bond, Mario Livio, Dante Minniti, Alvio Renzini, Manuela Zoccali

摘要:

本文报道了在银河系核球区首次探测到的蓝离散星。沿着一条视线进行广泛的天基观测的自行使我们能够分离出一个足够干净和特征良好的凸起样本,我们能够在颜色-星等图的区域中检测到一小群凸起物体,这些物体通常被年轻物体和蓝色straggler占据。然而,这些物体的可变性测量清楚地表明,它们中的一小部分是蓝离散星。在色星等图这个区域发现的42个天体中,我们估计至少有18个是真正的BSS。我们规范化的BSS人口我们的水平分支恒星的数量估计在隆起,以比较其他恒星系统的隆起。BSS分数明显不同于在星团中发现的。矮椭球体的蓝离散星数量仍然是一个有争议的问题;一些作者声称归一化的蓝离散星分数和积分光之间存在着一种近似关系。如果这一趋势是真实的,那么凸起可能会将其质量扩大三个数量级。相反,我们发现,在最保守的情况下,在隆起的真正年轻(~5Gy或更年轻)的人口,必须是最多3.4%的BSS人口。

英文摘要:

We report the first detections of Blue Straggler Stars (BSS) in the bulge of the Milky Way galaxy. Proper motions from extensive space-based observations along a single sight-line allow us to separate a sufficiently clean and well-characterized bulge sample that we are able to detect a small population of bulge objects in the region of the color-magnitude diagram commonly occupied young objects and blue strgglers. However, variability measurements of these objects clearly establish that a fraction of them are blue stragglers. Out of the 42 objects found in this region of the color-magnitude diagram, we estimate that at least 18 are genuine BSS. We normalize the BSS population by our estimate of the number of horizontal branch stars in the bulge in order to compare the bulge to other stellar systems. The BSS fraction is clearly discrepant from that found in stellar clusters. The blue straggler population of dwarf spheroidals remains a subject of debate; some authors claim an anticorrelation between the normalised blue straggler fraction and integrated light. If this trend is real, then the bulge may extend it by three orders of magnitude in mass. Conversely, we find that the genuinely young (~5Gy or younger) population in the bulge, must be at most 3.4% under the most conservative scenario for the BSS population.

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