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大麦云云外盘红巨星支星的金属丰度、年龄-金属丰度关系和动能

Metallicities, Age--Metallicity relationships, and Kinematics of Red Giant Branch Stars in the Outer Disk of the Large Magellanic Cloud

R. Carrera, C. Gallart, A. Aparicio, E. Hardy

摘要:

为了揭示大麦哲伦星系形成和演化的线索,对大麦哲伦星系的外盘进行了研究。在最内层(3<R<7 kpc),我们得到了半径从5.2到9.2kpc的6个场的深色星等图。与等时线的比较表明,虽然最古老的人口在所有领域都是近似同时代的,但最年轻的人口的年龄随着半径的增加而增加。在红外CaII三重态区的低分辨率光谱已获得约150颗恒星附近的尖端红巨星分支在相同的领域。径向速度和恒星金属丰度已经从这些光谱。结合前人的研究成果,分析了各矿田的金属丰度分布。根据推导出的年龄-金属丰度关系,最贫金属的天体也是最古老的天体,其金属含量在所有领域都是相似的,与半径无关。然而,虽然测量到的最富金属的天体,也就是最年轻的天体,其金属丰度在6千秒差距内保持不变,但从那里开始,金属丰度随着半径的增加而减少。平均金属丰度也是如此。根据推导出的年龄-金属丰度关系,这是一致的,在所有领域都是一样的,这一结果可以被解释为一个由外向内的形成方案,在反对由内而外的情况下,由LCDM宇宙学预测的星系像LMC。对我们的巨星样本的径向速度的分析表明,它们遵循旋转的冷盘运动学。随着金属丰度的降低,速度分散度增加,这表明最贫金属/最古老的物体分布在比最富金属/最年轻的物体更厚的盘中,这与银河系等其他圆盘中的发现一致。它们似乎不是热晕的一部分,如果大麦哲伦星系中存在热晕的话。

英文摘要:

The outer disk of the LMC is studied in order to unveil clues about its formation and evolution. Complementing our previous studies in innermost fields (3<R<7 kpc), we obtained deep color magnitude diagrams in 6 fields with radius from 5.2 to 9.2 kpc. The comparison with isochrones shows that while the oldest population is approximately coeval in all fields, the age of the youngest populations increases with increasing radius. Low-resolution spectroscopy in the infrared CaII triplet region has been obtained for about 150 stars near the tip red giant branch in the same fields. Radial velocities and stellar metallicities have been obtained from these spectra. The metallicity distribution of each field has been analyzed together with those previously studied. The metal content of the most metal-poor objects, which are also the oldest according to the derived age-metallicity relationships, is similar in all fields independently of the radius. However, while the metallicity of the most metal-rich objects measured, which are the youngest ones, remains constant in the inner 6 kpc, it decreases with increasing radius from there off. The same is true for the mean metallicity. According to the derived age-metallicity relationships, which are consistent with being the same in all fields, this result may be interpreted as an outside-in formation scheme in opposition with the inside-out scenario predicted by LCDM cosmology for a galaxy like the LMC. The analysis of the radial velocities of our sample of giants shows that they follow a rotational cold disk kinematics. The velocity dispersion increases as metallicity decreases indicating that the most metal-poor/oldest objects are distributed in a thicker disk than the most metal-rich/youngest ones in agreement with the findings in other disks such as that of the Milky Way. They do not seem to be part of a hot halo, if one exists in the LMC.

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