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具有GALEX II的球状星团的UV性质。综合色彩

UV Properties of Galactic Globular Clusters with GALEX II. Integrated colors

Emanuele Dalessandro, Ricardo P. Schiavon, Robert T. Rood, Francesco R. Ferraro, Sangmo T. Sohn, Barbara Lanzoni, Robert W. O'Connell

摘要:

本文给出了银河系演化探测器(GALEX)在FUV和NUV波段观测到的44个银河系球状星团(GGC)的紫外积分色。这个数据库是我们银河系中恒星系统有史以来最大的紫外线颜色均匀目录。GGC的接近使得即使GALEX的空间分辨率有点低,也有可能分辨出许多单独的恒星。这使我们能够确定如何综合紫外线颜色是由热恒星星族,主要是水平分支恒星及其后代。的UV颜色被发现与各种参数通常用于定义的水平分支形态。我们还研究了UV颜色如何随金属丰度,年龄,氦丰度和浓度等参数而变化。我们首次发现,GCs与人马座矮星系有(FUV-V)的颜色系统红比GCs具有相同的金属丰度。最后,我们推测存在一个有趣的趋势,这表明GC的紫外线颜色可能与宿主星系的质量相关,在这个意义上,更大质量的星系拥有更蓝的星系团。

英文摘要:

We present ultraviolet (UV) integrated colors of 44 Galactic globular clusters (GGCs) observed with the Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX) in both FUV and NUV bands. This data-base is the largest homogeneous catalog of UV colors ever published for stellar systems in our Galaxy. The proximity of GGCs makes it possible to resolve many individual stars even with the somewhat low spatial resolution of GALEX. This allows us to determine how the integrated UV colors are driven by hot stellar populations, primarily horizontal branch stars and their progeny. The UV colors are found to be correlated with various parameters commonly used to define the horizontal branch morphology. We also investigate how the UV colors vary with parameters like metallicity, age, helium abundance and concentration. We find for the first time that GCs associated with the Sagittarius dwarf galaxy have (FUV-V) colors systematically redder than GGCs with the same metallicity. Finally, we speculate about the presence of an interesting trend, suggesting that the UV color of GCs may be correlated with the mass of the host galaxy, in the sense that more massive galaxies possess bluer clusters.

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