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人马座矮星系不规则星系的HI洞和AGB恒星星族

On the HI-Hole and AGB Stellar Population of the Sagittarius Dwarf Irregular Galaxy

Y. Momany, M. Clemens, L. R. Bedin, M. Gullieuszik, E. V. Held, I. Saviane, S. Zaggia, L. Monaco, M. Montalto, R. M. Rich, L. Rizzi

摘要:

使用两个相隔约2年的HST/ACS数据集,使我们能够推导出人马座矮不规则(SagDIG)的相对自行,并减少严重的前景银河系污染。自行净化的SagDIG星表提供了一个更清晰的年轻红超巨星和中年渐近巨星分支种群的视图。我们报告了3个银河系富碳矮星的鉴定,它们可能属于薄盘,并指出在银河系低纬度这类恒星的高发生率。一个由4颗富氧候选星组成的子组描绘了一个模糊的,红色的延伸,这是一个定义明确的SagDIG富碳序列。这些富氧候选恒星的起源仍然不清楚,反映了富碳/富氧恒星比例的不确定性。SagDIG也是一个富含气体的星系,其特征是在气体盘中有一个巨大的空洞(HI洞),距离星系的光学中心约360 pc。尽管如此,我们调查恒星反馈假说的自行清洁恒星星族内的HI孔与适当选择的比较区域,具有较高的HI密度外部的孔进行比较。比较显示无显著差异。特别是,HI洞的中心(和比较区域)缺乏年龄小于~ 4亿年的恒星星族,而这些恒星族在星系内部是丰富的。我们的结论是,没有令人信服的证据表明,SagDIG HI孔是恒星反馈的结果,气体中的引力和热不稳定性是其形成的最有可能的机制。

英文摘要:

Using two HST/ACS data-sets that are separated by ~2 years has allowed us to derive the relative proper-motion for the Sagittarius dwarf irregular (SagDIG) and reduce the heavy foreground Galactic contamination. The proper-motion decontaminated SagDIG catalog provides a much clearer view of the young red-supergiant and intermediate-age asymptotic giant branch populations. We report the identification of 3 Milky Way carbon-rich dwarf stars, probably belonging to the thin disk, and pointing to the high incidence of this class at low Galactic latitudes. A sub-group of 4 oxygen-rich candidate stars depicts a faint, red extension of the well-defined SagDIG carbon-rich sequence. The origin of these oxygen-rich candidate stars remains unclear, reflecting the uncertainty in the ratio of carbon/oxygen rich stars. SagDIG is also a gas-rich galaxy characterized by a single large cavity in the gas disk (HI-hole), which is offset by ~360 pc from the optical centre of the galaxy. We nonetheless investigate the stellar feedback hypothesis by comparing the proper-motion cleaned stellar populations within the HI-hole with appropriately selected comparison regions, having higher HI densities external to the hole. The comparison shows no significant differences. In particular, the centre of the HI-hole (and the comparison regions) lack stellar populations younger than ~400 Myr, which are otherwise abundant in the inner body of the galaxy. We conclude that there is no convincing evidence that the SagDIG HI-hole is the result of stellar feedback, and that gravitational and thermal instabilities in the gas are the most likely mechanism for its formation.

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