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造父变星星族I和大麦云云的恒星形成历史

Population I Cepheids and star formation history of the Large Magellanic Cloud

Yogesh C. Joshi, Santosh Joshi

摘要:

本文利用OGLE III星表资料研究了造父变星在大麦云云(LMC)中的年龄分布。为了确定Pop I造父变星的年龄,我们使用在LMC星团中发现的造父变星导出了周期-年龄(PA)关系。我们发现周期分布中的两个峰值分别位于logP =0.49+/-0.01和logP =0.28+/-0.01天,分别对应于基波和第一泛音脉动模式。造父变星的年龄被用来理解过去3 - 6亿年LMC中的恒星形成情景。发现LMC造父变星的年龄分布在log(Age)=8.2+/-0.1处有一个峰值。这表明,主要的恒星形成事件发生在大约1.25 -200亿年前,可能是由SMC和LMC之间的近距离相遇引发的。造父变星在整个大麦哲伦海中呈不对称分布,其中许多变星沿沙洲呈团块状分布。造父变星的频率分布表明,大部分的团块位于LMC光学中心的东侧。

英文摘要:

In this paper we study the Cepheids distribution in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) as a function of their ages using data from the OGLE III photometric catalogue. To determine age of the Pop I Cepheids, we derived a period-age (PA) relationship using the Cepheids found in the LMC star clusters. We find two peaks in the period distribution at logP =0.49+/-0.01 and logP =0.28+/-0.01 days which correspond to fundamental and first overtone pulsation modes, respectively. Ages of the Cepheids are used to understand star formation scenario in the LMC in last 30-600 Myr. The age distribution of the LMC Cepheids is found to have a peak at log(Age)=8.2+/-0.1. This suggests that major star formation event took place at about 125-200 Myr ago which may have been triggered by a close encounter between the SMC and the LMC. Cepheids are found to be asymmetrically distributed throughout the LMC and many of them lie in clumpy structures along the bar. The frequency distribution of Cepheids suggests that most of the clumps are located to the eastern side of the LMC optical center.

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