Panchromatic Hubble Andromeda Treasury. XIV. The Period-Age Relationship of Cepheid Variables in M31 Star Clusters
Peter Senchyna, L. Clifton Johnson, Julianne J. Dalcanton, Lori C. Beerman, Morgan Fouesneau, Andrew Dolphin, Benjamin F. Williams, Philip Rosenfield, Søren S. Larsen
We present a sample of 11 M31 Cepheids in stellar clusters, derived from the overlap of the Panchromatic Hubble Andromeda Treasury (PHAT) cluster catalog and the Pan-STARRS1 (PS1) disk Cepheid catalog. After identifying the PS1 Cepheids in the HST catalog, we calibrate the PS1 mean magnitudes using the higher resolution HST photometry, revealing up to 1 magnitude offsets due to crowding effects in the ground-based catalog. We measure ages of the clusters by performing single stellar population fits to their color-magnitude diagrams (CMDs) excluding their Cepheids. From these cluster age measurements, we derive an empirical period-age relation which agrees well with the existing literature values. By confirming this relation for M31 Cepheids, we justify its application in high-precision pointwise age estimation across M31.
全色哈勃仙女座宝库(PHAT)是一个正在进行的哈勃望远镜多光谱宝库计划,用6个滤光片拍摄M31恒星形成盘的1/3,从紫外到近红外。完整的调查将解决银河系超过1亿颗恒星,投影半径从0-20千秒差距在一个连续的0.5平方度的区域在828轨道,产生成像的F275 W和F336 W过滤器与WFC 3/UVIS,F475 W和F814 W与ACS/WFC,F110 W和F160 W与WFC 3/IR。由此产生的波长覆盖范围提供了良好的约束恒星温度,辐射光度,和消光大多数光谱类型。测光在F275 W =25.1、F336 W =24.9、F475 W =27.9、F814 W =27.1、F110 W =25.5和F160 W =24.6处达到SNR=4;然而,光学和近红外数据是有限的,最深的可靠拥挤度在内部隆起处高达5等。所有点都是抖动的,并在F475 W、F814 W和F160 W中产生奈奎斯特采样图像。我们描述的观测策略,测光,天体测量,和数据产品,以及广泛的测试光度稳定性,拥挤误差,空间依赖的光度偏差,和望远镜指向控制。我们报告的初始适合M31的磁盘的结构,来自RGB恒星的密度,在某种程度上是独立的假设M/L和强大的尘埃消光的变化。这些拟合还表明,10 kpc环不仅仅是一个增强的近期恒星形成区域,而是一个包含年龄>1 Gyr的恒星的显着过密度的动力学结构。(节录)
Hubble Tarantula Treasury Project: Unraveling Tarantula's Web. II. Optical and Near Infrared Star Formation History of the Starburst Cluster NGC 2070 in 30 Doradus
Carbon Stars as Standard Candles: An Empirical Test for the Reddening, Metallicity, and Age Sensitivity of the J-region Asymptotic Giant Branch (JAGB) Method
Multiwavelength search for counterparts of supersoft X-ray sources in M31
我们在哈勃空间望远镜(HST)的“全色哈勃仙女座宝库”(PHAT)档案图像和测光目录中搜索了M31中7个超软X射线源(SSS)的光学/UV/IR对应物。三个SSS是瞬态的,其他四个是持久性的来源。PHAT提供了机会,以确定SSS托管非常大的白矮星,可能爆炸的Ia型超新星在单一的简并双星,与典型的共生星,高质量的近距离双星,或系统的光度发光吸积盘的星等和颜色指数。我们发现的证据表明,瞬态SSS是经典的或经常性的新星,我们确定的两个可能的对应物可能是共生双星进行质量转移在一个非常高的速度。在其中一个持久源r3-8的误差圈内有一颗候选的吸积白矮星双星。在M31,r2-12中研究最充分的SSS的空间误差圆中,没有红巨星或AGB恒星在光学和紫外波段足够明亮,成为共生系统,承载吸积和氢燃烧的白矮星。该SSS具有周期为217.7 s的X射线通量的已知调制,并且我们测量了其导数的上限,0.82 x 10(-11)。这个极限可以与轨道周期为几小时的双星中高速吸积的白矮星的自转周期相一致。然而,没有发光的对应物具有典型的吸积盘由热的中心源照射的颜色指数。采用半经验关系,盘光学光度的上限意味着白矮星双星的轨道周期的上限只有169分钟。