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哈勃太空望远镜对银河系球状星团的UV遗产调查。X. NGC 2808恒星星族的径向分布

The Hubble Space Telescope UV Legacy Survey of Galactic Globular Clusters. X. The radial distribution of stellar populations in NGC 2808

Matteo Simioni, Antonino P. Milone, Luigi R. Bedin, Antonio Aparicio, Giampaolo Piotto, Enrico Vesperini, Jongsuk Hong

摘要:

由于其极端的氦丰度,球状星团NGC 2808的多个恒星星族已经从光度学、光谱学和运动学的角度进行了广泛的研究。NGC 2808的色星等图中最显著的特征是三重主序(MS),红色的MS对应于含有原始氦的恒星星族,中间和蓝色的MS被氦增强到Y $\sim$ 0.32和$\sim$ 0.38。最近的一项研究表明,这个巨大的星团至少有五个不同的恒星星族(A、B、C、D和E)。其中,人口A,B和C对应的红色MS,而人口C和D连接到中间和蓝色MS。在本文中,我们利用哈勃空间望远镜测光研究的径向分布的红色,中间和蓝色MS从集群中心到约8.5弧分。我们的分析表明,每个MS的径向分布是不同的。特别是,如从多群体形成模型预测的,蓝色MS和中间MS似乎比红色MS更集中,该结果的显著性水平高于3σ。

英文摘要:

Due to their extreme helium abundance, the multiple stellar populations of the globular cluster NGC 2808 have been widely investigated from a photometric, spectroscopic, and kinematic perspective. The most striking feature of the color-magnitude diagram of NGC 2808 is the triple main sequence (MS), with the red MS corresponding to a stellar population with primordial helium, and the middle and the blue MS being enhanced in helium up to Y$\sim$0.32 and $\sim$0.38, respectively. A recent study has revealed that this massive cluster hosts at least five distinct stellar populations (A, B, C, D, and E). Among them populations A, B, and C correspond to the red MS, while populations C and D are connected to the middle and the blue MS. In this paper we exploit Hubble-Space-Telescope photometry to investigate the radial distribution of the red, the middle and the blue MS from the cluster center out to about 8.5 arcmin. Our analysis shows that the radial distribution of each of the three MSs is different. In particular, as predicted from multiple-population formation models, both the blue MS and the middle MS appears to be more concentrated than the red MS with a significance level for this result wich is above 3σ.

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