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星团NGC 1831、NGC 1868和NGC 2249的旋转失败和年龄扩展的显著成功

Failure of rotation and notable success of age spread to reproduce the CMDs of star clusters NGC 1831, NGC 1868 and NGC 2249

Zhongmu Li, Caiyan Mao, Liyun Zhang

摘要:

我们详细研究了NGC 1831,NGC 1868和NGC 2249三个星团的高质量CMD,通过两个最可能的原因(恒星旋转和年龄扩展)与扩展的主序星关闭CMD。结果表明,恒星自转(包括分辨和未分辨双星)解释三个星团的CMD的明显失败,和年龄传播的意外成功。特别是,关闭和红团部分的特殊结构不能由恒星旋转产生,但年龄传播完美地再现了所观察到的特征。这表明这三个星团包含多个恒星群,而不是单一的旋转恒星和双星群。NGC 1831的粗亚巨星分支对此提供了最有力的支持。结果表明,恒星自转不能保存广泛接受的观点(简单的人口)的星团,和一个扩展的恒星形成历史需要解释所观察到的CMD。此外,这项工作表明,一个狭窄的次巨星分支并不对应于一个简单的人口。用前人的工作对NGC 1651的简单总体的判断是不可靠的。我们期望我们的试验是一个起点,更精确的研究星团的赫兹斯普朗-罗素图。这涉及许多因素,如双星,旋转恒星和恒星形成历史(SFH)。

英文摘要:

We study the high-quality CMDs of three star clusters, NGC 1831, NGC 1868 and NGC 2249 in detail, via the two most likely causes (stellar rotation and age spread) for CMDs with extended main-sequence turn-offs. The results show evident failure of stellar rotation (including resolved and unresolved binary stars) to interpret the CMDs of three star clusters, and the unexpected success of age spread. In particular, the special structures of turn-off and red clump parts cannot be generated by stellar rotation, but age spread perfectly reproduces the observed features. This suggests that these three clusters contain multiple populations of stars, rather than a single population of rotating stars and binaries. The thick subgiant branch of NGC 1831 gives the strongest support to this. The results demonstrate that stellar rotation cannot save the widely accepted view (simple population) of star clusters, and an extended star formation history is needed for explaining the observed CMDs. In addition, this work shows that a narrow subgiant branch does not correspond to a simple population. The judgement of simple population in NGC 1651 by a previous work is not necessarily reliable. We anticipate our assay to be a starting point for more precise study of Hertzsprung-Russell diagrams of star clusters. This involves many factors, such as binaries, rotating stars, and star formation history (SFH).

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