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NGC 1252:一个高海拔、贫金属的疏散星团残骸

NGC 1252: a high altitude, metal poor open cluster remnant

R. de la Fuente Marcos, C. de la Fuente Marcos, C. Moni Bidin, G. Carraro, E. Costa

摘要:

如果恒星形成在星团中,但大多数恒星属于场,那么理解从前者到后者的过渡细节对于解释场的观测性质至关重要。老化的疏散星团是场星的来源之一。疏散星团的分裂率随着年龄的增长而减慢,但是随着天体年龄的增长,剩余的星团或疏散星团残余物(OCR)与周围磁场之间的区别变得越来越不明显。因此,找到好的OCR候选人或确认一些最佳候选人的OCR性质仍然是难以捉摸的。其中一个天体是NGC 1252,它是钟表座中一个由大约20颗恒星组成的分散的天体群。在这里,我们使用新的宽视场测光的UBVI通带,自行耶鲁/圣胡安SPM 4.0目录和高分辨率光谱同时从N体模拟的结果来破译NGC 1252的谜一样的性格。光谱学表明,研究区域中大多数最亮的恒星在化学、运动学和空间上彼此无关。然而,在分析自行之后,我们发现了一个相关的运动群。这个稀疏的天体相对较近(约1 kpc),金属含量较低,可能不仅是距离太阳1.5 kpc以内最古老的星系团(3 Gyr)之一,而且也是距离太阳盘最远的星系团之一,海拔接近-900秒差距。这使得NGC 1252成为第一个真正被认为是高银河高度OCR的疏散星团:一个不寻常的天体,可能暗示了在高银河高度气体云上引发的恒星形成事件。TW Hor和HD 20286不太可能是NGC 1252的一部分。NGC 1252 17被认为是一颗不相关的星族II炮弹星,其运动速度约为400 km/s。

英文摘要:

If stars form in clusters but most stars belong to the field, understanding the details of the transition from the former to the latter is imperative to explain the observational properties of the field. Aging open clusters are one of the sources of field stars. The disruption rate of open clusters slows down with age but, as an object gets older, the distinction between the remaining cluster or open cluster remnant (OCR) and the surrounding field becomes less and less obvious. As a result, finding good OCR candidates or confirming the OCR nature of some of the best candidates still remains elusive. One of these objects is NGC 1252, a scattered group of about 20 stars in Horologium. Here we use new wide-field photometry in the UBVI pass-bands, proper motions from the Yale/San Juan SPM 4.0 catalogue and high resolution spectroscopy concurrently with results from N-body simulations to decipher NGC 1252's enigmatic character. Spectroscopy shows that most of the brightest stars in the studied area are chemically, kinematically and spatially unrelated to each other. However, after analysing proper motions, we find one relevant kinematic group. This sparse object is relatively close (about 1 kpc), metal poor and is probably not only one of the oldest clusters (3 Gyr) within 1.5 kpc from the Sun but also one of the clusters located farthest from the disc, at an altitude of nearly -900 pc. That makes NGC 1252 the first open cluster that can be truly considered a high Galactic altitude OCR: an unusual object that may hint at a star formation event induced on a high Galactic altitude gas cloud. TW Hor and HD 20286 are unlikely to be part of NGC 1252. NGC 1252 17 is identified as an unrelated, Population II cannonball star moving at about 400 km/s.

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