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草帽星系中球状星团的光谱:光谱金属丰度双峰性的证据

Spectra of globular clusters in the Sombrero galaxy: evidence for spectroscopic metallicity bimodality

Alan Alves-Brito, George K. T. Hau, Duncan A. Forbes, Lee R. Spitler, Jay Strader, Jean P. Brodie, Katherine L. Rhode

摘要:

我们提出了一个大样本的200多个已确认的球状星团(GC)与草帽(M104)星系与凯克望远镜上的DEIMOS仪器采取的集成光谱。很大一部分光谱的信噪比足够高,可以使用Brodie和Huchra(1990)的方法测量GC金属丰度。我们发现光谱金属丰度分布范围为-2.2 < [Fe/H] < +0.1,为双峰,峰值在[Fe/H] ~ -1.4和-0.6。因此,草帽星系的GC系统,像其他几个星系现在详细研究,揭示了双峰光谱金属丰度分布支持长期以来的信念,即颜色双峰反映两个金属丰度亚群。这进一步表明,从光学颜色到金属丰度的老恒星星族,如GC的转换,是不是强非线性。我们还探讨了GC亚群的金属丰度的径向和大小分布,但小的数字统计阻止这些分布中的任何明确的趋势。

英文摘要:

We present a large sample of over 200 integrated-light spectra of confirmed globular clusters (GCs) associated with the Sombrero (M104) galaxy taken with the DEIMOS instrument on the Keck telescope. A significant fraction of the spectra have signal-to-noise levels high enough to allow measurements of GC metallicities using the method of Brodie & Huchra (1990). We find a distribution of spectroscopic metallicities ranging from -2.2 < [Fe/H] < +0.1 that is bimodal, with peaks at [Fe/H] ~ -1.4 and -0.6. Thus the GC system of the Sombrero galaxy, like a few other galaxies now studied in detail, reveals a bimodal spectroscopic metallicity distribution supporting the long-held belief that colour bimodality reflects two metallicity subpopulations. This further suggests that the transformation from optical colour to metallicity for old stellar populations, such as GCs, is not strongly non-linear. We also explore the radial and magnitude distribution with metallicity for GC subpopulations but small number statistics prevent any clear trends in these distributions.

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