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隐藏其年龄:年轻凸起的情况

Hiding its age: the case for a younger bulge

M. Haywood, P. Di Matteo, O. Snaith, A. Calamida

摘要:

确定隆起的年龄导致了两个相互矛盾的结果。一方面,在不同的隆起领域的颜色星等图似乎表明一个统一的老($>$ 10 Gyr)人口。另一方面,通过微透镜事件观察到的矮星的个体年龄似乎表明了一个很大的差异,从$\sim$ 2到$\sim$ 13 Gyr。因为现在的隆起被认为主要是一个四四方方的花生状的棒,它建议盘星是它的主要组成部分之一,因此也是年龄明显小于10 Gyr的恒星。其他的论点也指出了这样一个事实,即隆起不可能只是古老的,特别是不可能是一个爆发的人口,因为如果隆起是早期银河系合并阶段的化石残留物,通常是可以预期的。在本研究中,我们表明,鉴于在凸起中观察到的金属丰度的范围,一个统一的老人口将反映到一个显着的传播颜色在关闭,这是没有观察到。因此,我们证明,年龄和金属丰度之间的相关性,预计举行的内部磁盘将合谋形成一个颜色星等图与一个非常小的传播颜色,从而模仿的颜色星等图的一个统一的老年人口。如果年龄小于10 Gyr的恒星是球核的一部分,而球核主要是通过盘中的动力学不稳定性形成的话,那么就像观测中所看到的那样,在关闭处的扩散很小。

英文摘要:

The determination of the age of the bulge has led to two contradictory results. On the one side, the color-magnitude diagrams in different bulge fields seem to indicate a uniformly old ($>$10 Gyr) population. On the other side, individual ages derived from dwarfs observed through microlensing events seem to indicate a large spread, from $\sim$ 2 to $\sim$ 13 Gyr. Because the bulge is now recognised as being mainly a boxy peanut-shaped bar, it is suggested that disk stars are one of its main constituents, and therefore also stars with ages significantly younger than 10 Gyr. Other arguments as well point to the fact that the bulge cannot be exclusively old, and in particular cannot be a burst population, as it is usually expected if the bulge was the fossil remnant of a merger phase in the early Galaxy. In the present study, we show that given the range of metallicities observed in the bulge, a uniformly old population would be reflected into a significant spread in color at the turn-off which is not observed. Inversely, we demonstrate that the correlation between age and metallicity expected to hold for the inner disk would conspire to form a color-magnitude diagram with a remarkably small spread in color, thus mimicking the color-magnitude diagram of a uniformly old population. If stars younger than 10 Gyr are part of the bulge, as must be the case if the bulge has been mainly formed through dynamical instabilities in the disk, then a very small spread at the turn-off is expected, as seen in the observations.

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