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在麦哲伦桥发现老年人

The detection of an older population in the Magellanic Bridge

Gemma Bagheri, Maria-Rosa Cioni, Ralf Napiwotzki

摘要:

麦哲伦星系包括大麦云云(LMC)、小麦哲伦云(SMC),以及观测较少的麦哲伦桥和麦哲伦流。桥被中性气体追踪,并有观测到的恒星成分,而流只由气体组成,迄今没有观测到恒星对应物。这项研究使用2MASS和WISE在桥方向上创建的星表来调查麦哲伦桥的恒星内容。创建了目录,并分析了颜色大小和两个颜色图。还进行了一项研究,以消除麦哲伦桥方向的银河前景人口,这是一个重要的考虑因素,因为在桥内的恒星密度低。这项研究发现,麦哲伦桥包含一个候选的老年恒星星族除了年轻的人口已经知道。麦哲伦桥的形成很可能是由于LMC和SMC之间的潮汐事件,将大部分材料从SMC吸入其中。桥中的一个较老的人口表明,恒星的内容是在其形成过程中与气体成分一起吸入的。

英文摘要:

The Magellanic system comprises the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC), and the less frequently observed Magellanic Bridge and Magellanic Stream. The Bridge is traced by neutral gas and has an observed stellar component, while the Stream consists of gas only, with no observed stellar counterpart to date. This study uses catalogues created in the direction of the Bridge from 2MASS and WISE to investigate the stellar content of the Magellanic Bridge. Catalogues were created and colour-magnitude and two colour diagrams were analysed. A study was also carried out on removing the Galactic foreground population in the direction of the Magellanic Bridge, which was an important consideration due to the low stellar density within the Bridge. This study finds that the Magellanic Bridge contains a candidate older stellar population in addition to the younger population already known. The formation of the Magellanic Bridge is likely to have occurred from a tidal event between the LMC and SMC drawing most of the material into it from the SMC. An older population in the Bridge indicates that a stellar content was drawn in during its formation together with a gas component.

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