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从2 MASS全天空星计数得到的Milky Way信息:双峰色分布

The Information Of The Milky Way From 2MASS Whole Sky Star Count: The Bimodal Color Distributions

Chan-Kao Chang, Shao-Yu Lai, Chung-Ming Ko, Ting-Hung Peng

摘要:

利用2微米全天巡天点源星表(2 MASS PSC),计算了整个银河系的J-Ks色分布(CD),面元大小为0.05等。CD是双峰的,其具有在0.8 < J-Ks < 0.85处的红色峰和在0.3 < J-Ks < 0.4处的蓝色峰。红色峰值的颜色在整个天空中大致相同,但蓝色峰值的颜色取决于银河系的纬度,(在低银河系纬度J-Ks ~ 0.35,在其他天空区域为0.35 < J-Ks < 0.4)。蓝峰在银河系低纬度地区的双峰CD中占主导地位,并与其他天空区域的红峰相当。为了解释全天2 MASS CD的双峰分布和全球趋势,我们组装了一个经验HR图,它是由基于观测的近红外HR图和颜色星等图组成,并结合银河系模型。在经验HR图中,当我们与厚盘(J-Ks)0 = 0.39相比时,薄盘的主序星相对较蓝,(J-Ks)0 = 0.31。根据主层序断陷的颜色-年龄关系,粗略估计薄/厚盘的年龄约为4-5/8-9 Gyr。总的来说,2 MASS CD可以被看作是一种以统计方式普查银河系恒星星族年龄的工具,据我们所知,这是测量年龄的第一次尝试。

英文摘要:

The J-Ks color distribution (CD) with a bin size of 0.05 magnitude for the entire Milky Way has been carried out by using the Two Micron All Sky Survey Point Source Catalog (2MASS PSC). The CDs are bimodal, which has a red peak at 0.8 < J-Ks < 0.85 and a blue peak at 0.3 < J-Ks < 0.4. The colors of the red peak are more or less the same for the whole sky, but that of the blue peak depend on Galactic latitude, (J-Ks ~ 0.35 at low Galactic latitudes and 0.35 < J-Ks < 0.4 for other sky areas). The blue peak dominates the bimodal CDs at low Galactic latitudes and becomes comparable with the red peak in other sky regions. In order to explain the bimodal distribution and the global trend shown by the all sky 2MASS CDs, we assemble an empirical HR diagram, which is composed by observational-based near infrared HR diagrams and color magnitude diagrams, and incorporate a Milky Way model. In the empirical HR diagram, the main sequence stars turnoff the thin disk is relatively bluer, (J-Ks)0 = 0.31, when we compare with the thick disk which is (J-Ks)0 = 0.39. The age of the thin/thick disk is roughly estimated to be around 4-5/8-9 Gyr according to the color-age relation of the main sequence turnoff. In general, the 2MASS CDs can be treated as a tool to census the age of stellar population of the Milky Way in a statistical manner and to our knowledge this is a first attempt to measure the age.

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