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最近的蓝矮星系NGC 6789的自洽金属丰度和恒星形成历史

Auto-consistent metallicity and star formation history of the nearest blue compact dwarf galaxy NGC 6789

Rubén García-Benito, Enrique Pérez-Montero

摘要:

我们提出了一个详细的自洽研究最近的蓝色致密矮星系NGC 6789的光学和紫外档案测光数据和光学长缝ISIS-WHT光谱观测的五个最亮的恒星形成的结。对所有节点的光谱分析允许使用高激发电子温度和低激发电子温度的测量来推导氧、氮、硫、氩和氖的离子化学丰度,从而得出结论,NGC 6789是化学均匀的,氧丰度在12+log(O/H)= 7.80-7.93的范围内,但同时呈现出比其金属状态所预期的更高的氮氧比值。我们使用NGC 6789的档案HST/WFPC 2 F555 W和F814 W观测数据,对分辨的恒星星族的色星等图(CMD)进行光度学研究,并推导出其恒星形成历史(SFH),这与不同的年轻和年老恒星星族的存在是相容的,这些恒星族的金属丰度不一定随年龄而增加。我们使用STARLIGHT代码和从CMD获得的SFH之后的单个恒星星族的组合来拟合在所有五个节点中观察到的光谱。我们比较由此产生的恒星质量和相对分数的电离人口与非约束SFH的情况下。使用云光电离模型得到的年轻人口的属性,在所有的结在3-6百万年的范围内,并估计灰尘吸收因子,这与观测到的GALEX FUV-NUV颜色指数相关的类似的年龄。最后用总光度消光和尘埃吸收校正的Hα通量计算恒星形成率。

英文摘要:

We present a detailed auto-consistent study of the nearest blue compact dwarf galaxy NGC 6789 by means of optical and UV archive photometry data and optical long-slit ISIS-WHT spectroscopy observations of the five brightest star-forming knots. The analysis of the spectra in all knots allowed the derivation of ionic chemical abundances of oxygen, nitrogen, sulphur, argon and neon using measures of both the high- and low-excitation electron temperatures, leading to the conclusion that NGC 6789 is chemically homogeneous with low values of the abundance of oxygen in the range 12+log(O/H) = 7.80-7.93, but presenting at the same time higher values of the nitrogen-to-oxygen ratio than expected for its metal regime. We used archival HST/WFPC2 F555W and F814W observations of NGC 6789 to perform a photometric study of the colour-magnitude diagram (CMD) of the resolved stellar populations and derive its star formation history (SFH), which is compatible with the presence of different young and old stellar populations whose metallicities do not necessarily increase with age. We fit the observed optical spectrum in all the five knots using the STARLIGHT code and a combination of single stellar populations following the SFH obtained from the CMD. We compare the resulting stellar masses and the relative fractions of the ionising populations with a non-constrained SFH case. The properties of the younger populations were obtained using CLOUDY photoionisation models, giving similar ages in all the knots in the range 3-6 Myr and the estimation of the dust absorption factor, which correlates with the observed GALEX FUV-NUV colour indices. The total photometric extinction and dust-absorption corrected Hα fluxes were finally used to derive the star formation rates.

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