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旋转恒星模型可以解释中等年龄星团中扩展的主序转折

Rotating Stellar Models Can Account for the Extended Main Sequence Turnoffs in Intermediate Age Clusters

Timothy D. Brandt, Chelsea X. Huang

摘要:

我们发现,在中间年龄大麦云(LMC)集群,通常归因于年龄的传播几百万年,可以很容易地占扩展的主要序列关闭变量恒星旋转在同时代的人口。我们计算合成测光旋转恒星演化模型的网格,并插入它们产生在各种旋转速率和方向的等时线。一个扩展的主层序关闭自然地出现在颜色-星等图上,年龄在1 Gyr以下,在~1 Gyr和1.5 Gyr之间达到峰值,并在2 Gyr左右逐渐消失。然后,我们拟合我们的插值等时线的眼睛四个LMC集群非常扩展的主序列关闭:NGC 1783,1806,1846和1987。在每一种情况下,具有单一年龄和金属丰度的恒星星族可以很好地解释观测到的关闭区域的范围。新的恒星模型几乎没有预测到关闭颜色与旋转vsini的相关性:关闭的红色边缘是由慢旋转和边缘快速旋转的组合组成的。

英文摘要:

We show that the extended main sequence turnoffs seen in intermediate age Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) clusters, often attributed to age spreads of several hundred Myr, may be easily accounted for by variable stellar rotation in a coeval population. We compute synthetic photometry for grids of rotating stellar evolution models and interpolate them to produce isochrones at a variety of rotation rates and orientations. An extended main sequence turnoff naturally appears in color-magnitude diagrams at ages just under 1 Gyr, peaks in extent between ~1 and 1.5 Gyr, and gradually disappears by around 2 Gyr in age. We then fit our interpolated isochrones by eye to four LMC clusters with very extended main sequence turnoffs: NGC 1783, 1806, 1846, and 1987. In each case, stellar populations with a single age and metallicity can comfortably account for the observed extent of the turnoff region. The new stellar models predict almost no correlation of turnoff color with rotational vsini: the red edge of the turnoff is populated by a combination of slow rotators and edge-on rapid rotators.

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