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老的富金属银河系疏散星团NGC6791的恒星寿命和紫外线性质:理解椭圆星系UV上升的途径

Stellar lifetime and ultraviolet properties of the old metal-rich Galactic open cluster NGC6791: a pathway to understand the UV upturn of elliptical galaxies

Alberto Buzzoni, Emanuele Bertone, Giovanni Carraro, Lucio Buson

摘要:

利用深UB测光和2 Mass JK观测资料,对古老的银河系富金属疏散星团疏散星团NGC 6791的演化性质进行了评估。通过理论(U-B)和(J-K)颜色拟合,计算了该星团4739颗恒星的热光度和有效温度。导出的H-R图已与合成恒星光谱的UVBLUE网格相匹配,以获得系统的综合SED,以及全套UV(Fanelli)和光学(Lick)窄带指数。该星系团似乎是标准椭圆星系的相当好的代表,尽管其红外颜色明显更蓝,4000 A巴耳末破裂较浅,Mg 2指数较低。在EHB演化过程中,已确认的十几颗热恒星的存在,使得SED星系团的性质与最活跃的紫外上翻星系一致,其辐射热光度占总辐射热光度的1.7+/-0.4%。星团氦丰度的结果是Y=0.30 +/-0.04,而由恒星数量计算的MS后恒星寿命与Padova和BASTI恒星轨迹的理论预期相当一致。发现NGC 6791星的MS后燃料消耗为0.43 +/- 0.01 M_sun,与星团富He白矮星的估计质量非常一致。这样一个紧凑的数字可能会导致怀疑一小部分星团恒星星族实际上没有达到有效点燃恒星核心中He所需的最低质量。

英文摘要:

The evolutionary properties of the old metal-rich Galactic open cluster NGC6791 are assessed, based on deep UB photometry and 2Mass JK data. For 4739 stars in the cluster, bolometric luminosity and effective temperature have been derived from theoretical (U-B) and (J-K) color fitting. The derived H-R diagram has been matched with the UVBLUE grid of synthetic stellar spectra to obtain the integrated SED of the system, together with a full set UV (Fanelli) and optical (Lick) narrow-band indices. The cluster appears to be a fairly good proxy of standard elliptical galaxies, although with significantly bluer infrared colors, a shallower 4000A Balmer break, and a lower Mg2 index. The confirmed presence of a dozen hot stars, along their EHB evolution, leads the cluster SED to consistently match the properties of the most active UV-upturn galaxies, with 1.7+/-0.4% of the total bolometric luminosity emitted shortward of 2500A. The cluster Helium abundance results Y=0.30 +/-0.04, while the Post-MS implied stellar lifetime from star number counts fairly agrees with the theoretical expectations from both the Padova and BASTI stellar tracks. A Post-MS fuel consumption of 0.43 +/- 0.01 M_sun is found for NGC6791 stars, in close agreement with the estimated mass of cluster He-rich white dwarfs. Such a tight figure may lead to suspect that a fraction of the cluster stellar population does actually not reach the minimum mass required to effectively ignite He in the stellar core.

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