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基于恒星星族的恒星形成历史对场星IMF的约束

Constraints on the Field Star IMF from Resolved Stellar Populations based Star Formation Histories

Daniel R. Weisz

摘要:

使用HST/ACS观测解决恒星星族在附近的星系,我探索的限制,可以放在场星IMF的恒星形成历史(SFHS)来自合成色星等图(CMD)拟合。特别是,我如何合理的变化,在国际货币基金组织的斜率,相对于萨尔彼得斜率,导致只有微小的变化,在SFHS。这表明,CMD-SFH拟合参数空间有一个广泛的最小IMF的变化,并意味着CMD基于SFH只能提供弱显式约束恒星IMF。然而,观测矮星系中分辨出的恒星星族可以与其他方法一起用来寻找上IMF的变化。

英文摘要:

Using HST/ACS observations of resolved stellar populations in nearby galaxies, I explore the constraints one can place on the field star IMF from star formation histories (SFHs) derived from synthetic color-magnitude diagram (CMD) fitting. In particular, I show how reasonable variations in the slope of the IMF, relative to a Salpeter slope, lead to only minor changes in the SFHs. This shows that CMD-SFH fitting parameter space has a broad minimum with respect to IMF variations and implies that CMD based SFHs can only provide weak explicit constraints on the stellar IMF. However, observations of resolved stellar populations in dwarf galaxies can be used to tandem with other methods to search for variations in the upper IMF.

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