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船底座矮球状星系中恒星星族金属丰度、年龄和恒星形成历史的色星等图约束

Color-Magnitude Diagram Constraints on the Metallicities, Ages, and Star Formation History of the Stellar Populations in the Carina Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxy

Don A. VandenBerg, Peter B. Stetson, Thomas M. Brown

摘要:

用$-0.4 \le$ [alpha/Fe] $\le +0.4$和广泛的[Fe/H]等时线以及互补的零年龄水平分支(ZAHB)位点绘制了隆凸的色幅图(CMD)。我们所使用的颜色变换已经过“校准”,因此,当假定球状星团(GC)的红化和金属丰度的估计得到很好的支持时,等时线可以很好地拟合M3和M92的$[(B-V)_0,\,M_V]$图。所采用的距离模数,为GC和船底座,是基于我们的ZAHB模型,这是能够再现老HB组件(以及HB块的光度)的矮球状星系相当不错-即使它跨越范围[Fe/H]的~ 1.5德克斯,提供[阿尔法/Fe]变化与[Fe/H]的方式,已被派生光谱。这里得出的年龄与以前发现的老的和中等年龄的关闭恒星,以及可忽略的恒星形成(SF)活动(~ 6-10 Gyr ago)的年龄相当吻合。CMD模拟已经进行了最暗的关闭和亚巨星。他们表明,一个明显的偏好SF持续几个Gyr,而不是一个短的爆发,一些迹象表明,年龄随着[Fe/H]的增加而减少。一般来说,假设光谱金属丰度的恒星模型提供了令人满意的观测结果,包括船底座的薄巨分支,尽管比所采用的[α/Fe]值所暗示的更高的氧丰度将产生有利的结果。

英文摘要:

Victoria-Regina isochrones for $-0.4 \le$ [alpha/Fe] $\le +0.4$ and a wide range in [Fe/H], along with complementary zero-age horizontal branch (ZAHB) loci, have been applied to the color-magnitude diagram (CMD) of Carina. The color transformations that we have used have been "calibrated" so that isochrones provide excellent fits to the $[(B-V)_0,\,M_V]$-diagrams of M3 and M92, when well supported estimates of the globular cluster (GC) reddenings and metallicities are assumed. The adopted distance moduli, for both the GCs and Carina, are based on our ZAHB models, which are able to reproduce the old HB component (as well as the luminosity of the HB clump) of the dwarf spheroidal galaxy quite well --- even if it spans a range in [Fe/H] of ~ 1.5 dex, provided that [alpha/Fe] varies with [Fe/H] in approximately the way that has been derived spectroscopically. Ages derived here agree reasonably well with those found previously for the old and intermediate-age turnoff stars, as well as for the period of negligible star formation (SF) activity (~ 6-10 Gyr ago). CMD simulations have been carried out for the faintest turnoff and subgiant stars. They indicate a clear preference for SF that lasted several Gyr instead of a short burst, with some indication that ages decrease with increasing [Fe/H]. In general, stellar models that assume spectroscopic metallicities provide satisfactory fits to the observations, including the thin giant branch of Carina, though higher oxygen abundances than those implied by the adopted values of [alpha/Fe] would have favorable consequences.

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