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四个外晕球状星团中的蓝离散星星族

The central Blue Straggler population in four outer-halo globular clusters

Giacomo Beccari, Nora Lützgendorf, Christoph Olczak, Francesco R. Ferraro, Barbara Lanzoni, Giovanni Carraro, Peter B. Stetson, Antonio Sollima, Henri M. J. Boffin

摘要:

利用HST/WFPC 2观测数据,我们对球状星团AM 1、波江座、Palomar 3和Palomar 4中心区域的蓝离散星(BSS)种群进行了比较研究。位于距离银河系中心RGC > 50 kpc的位置,它们(连同Palomar 14和NGC 2419)是光环中最遥远的星团。我们确定它们的色星等图和重心。这四个星团的年龄相似(10.5-11 Gyr),明显小于内晕球状星团的年龄,金属丰度也相似。通过利用宽场地面数据,我们建立了最广泛的径向密度分布,从解决这些系统的恒星计数。这些是很好地再现各向同性国王模型的相对较低的浓度。在所有球状星团中,BSS似乎比红巨星更集中地分离,这与估计的核心和半质量弛豫时间小于星团年龄一致。假设这是一个大规模分离的标志,我们得出结论,AM 1和波江座比AM3和AM4在动态上进化得更快。

英文摘要:

Using HST/WFPC2 data, we have performed a comparative study of the Blue Straggler Star (BSS) populations in the central regions of the globular clusters AM 1, Eridanus, Palomar 3, and Palomar 4. Located at distances RGC > 50 kpc from the Galactic Centre, these are (together with Palomar 14 and NGC 2419) the most distant clusters in the Halo. We determine their colour-magnitude diagrams and centres of gravity. The four clusters turn out to have similar ages (10.5-11 Gyr), significantly smaller than those of the inner-Halo globulars, and similar metallicities. By exploiting wide field ground based data, we build the most extended radial density profiles from resolved star counts ever published for these systems. These are well reproduced by isotropic King models of relatively low concentration. BSSs appear to be significantly more centrally segregated than red giants in all globular clusters, in agreement with the estimated core and half-mass relaxation times which are smaller than the cluster ages. Assuming that this is a signature of mass segregation, we conclude that AM 1 and Eridanus are slightly dynamically more evolved than Pal 3 and Pal 4.

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