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由宽视场Washington测光研究大麦云云星群的年龄-金属丰度关系

The age-metallicity relationship of the Large Magellanic Cloud field star population from wide-field Washington photometry

Andrés E. Piatti, Doug Geisler

摘要:

我们分析年龄和金属丰度分布在整个大麦云(LMC)主体,从CCD华盛顿CT 1测光约550万颗恒星。我们产生了一个全面的场星丰度-金属丰度关系(AMR),从最早的时代,直到~1 Gyr前。这个AMR揭示了大麦哲伦星系的化学演化并不完全是一个封闭的盒子或爆发系统,而是两种情况的结合,在星系的一生中,这两种情况的相对强度有所不同,尽管爆发模型更接近于一般的数据。此外,虽然旧的和贫金属的恒星优先在外盘形成,但年轻的和富含金属的恒星大多在内盘形成,证实了由外向内的形成。我们提供的证据之间形成的恒星5和12 Gyr,在集群的年龄差距,虽然在此期间的化学富集是最小的。我们没有发现显着的金属丰度梯度在LMC。我们还发现,在金属丰度的LMC字段的范围内发生了变化,在生命周期的LMC。特别是,我们发现只有一个小范围的金属丰度在外盘领域,而平均范围的Delta([Fe/H])= +0.3 \pm 0.1 dex出现在内盘领域。

英文摘要:

We analyze ages and metallicities for some 5.5 million stars distributed throughout the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) main body, obtained from CCD Washington CT1 photometry. We produce a comprehensive field star Age-Metallicity Relationship (AMR) from the earliest epoch until ~1 Gyr ago. This AMR reveals that the LMC has not evolved chemically as either a closed-box or bursting system, exclusively, but as a combination of both scenarios that have varied in relative strength over the lifetime of the galaxy, although the bursting model falls closer to the data in general. Furthermore, while old and metal-poor field stars have been preferentially formed in the outer disk, younger and more metal-rich stars have mostly been formed in the inner disk, confirming an outside-in formation. We provide evidence for the formation of stars between 5 and 12 Gyr, during the cluster age gap, although chemical enrichment during this period was minimal. We find no significant metallicity gradient in the LMC. We also find that the range in the metallicity of an LMC field has varied during the lifetime of the LMC. In particular, we find only a small range of the metal abundance in the outer disk fields, whereas an average range of Delta([Fe/H]) = +0.3\pm0.1 dex appears in the inner disk fields.

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