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来自银河系南半球的消息:遥远球状星团NGC 2419的化学成分

News from the Galactic suburbia: the chemical composition of the remote globular cluster NGC 2419

A. Mucciarelli, M. Bellazzini, R. Ibata, T. Merle, S. C. Chapman, E. Dalessandro, A. Sollima

摘要:

利用DEIMOS@Keck多天体摄谱仪对NGC 2419球状星团的49颗巨星进行了化学分析。以前的分析表明,这个集群的红外线强度的钙II三重态的大分散,这表明其Fe或Ca含量的内在星到星散射。从我们的分析,我们评估,所有的研究恒星共享相同的[Fe/H],[Ca/Fe]和[Ti/Fe]丰度比,而在Mg和K丰度的大范围内检测。[Mg/Fe]的分布是双峰型的,约40%的观测目标具有太阳下的[Mg/Fe],低至[Mg/Fe] ~ -1 dex,这是以前在球状星团中从未观察到的Mg缺乏水平。据发现,镁丰度的大分散可能是观察到的Ca II三线态强度的分散的主要来源(可以被错误地解释为铁或钙丰度的分散),因为镁在巨恒星的大气中起着相关的作用,作为一个电子供体。一个强大的镁丰度耗尽导致增加的线强度的钙II三重态,由于在电子压力的变化,在一个恒定的Fe和Ca丰度。最后,我们发现镁和钾丰度之间的反相关性,不容易解释的框架内,目前的核合成模型。

英文摘要:

We present the chemical analysis of 49 giant stars of the globular cluster NGC 2419, using medium resolution spectra collected with the multi-object spectrograph DEIMOS@Keck. Previous analysis of this cluster revealed a large dispersion in the line strength of the infrared Ca II triplet, suggesting an intrinsic star-to-star scatter in its Fe or Ca content. From our analysis, we assess that all the investigated stars share the same [Fe/H], [Ca/Fe] and [Ti/Fe] abundance ratios, while a large spread in Mg and K abundances is detected. The distribution of [Mg/Fe] is bimodal, with ~40% of the observed targets having subsolar [Mg/Fe], down to [Mg/Fe] ~ -1 dex, a level of Mg-deficiency never observed before in globular clusters. It is found that the large dispersion in Mg abundances is likely the main origin of the observed dispersion of the Ca II triplet lines strengths (that can be erroneously interpreted in terms of Fe or Ca abundance scatter) because Mg plays a relevant role in the atmosphere of giant stars as an electron donor. A strong depletion in the Mg abundance leads to an increase of the line strength of the Ca II triplet, due to the variation in the electronic pressure, at a constant Fe and Ca abundance. Finally, we detect an anti-correlation between Mg and K abundances, not easily explainable within the framework of the current nucleosynthesis models.

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