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麦哲伦星系团中多星族的搜寻I:小麦哲伦星云球状星团NGC 121中的两个恒星星族

The Search for Multiple Populations in Magellanic Cloud Clusters I: Two Stellar Populations in the Small Magellanic Cloud Globular Cluster NGC 121

F. Niederhofer, N. Bastian, V. Kozhurina-Platais, S. Larsen, M. Salaris, E. Dalessandro, A. Mucciarelli, I. Cabrera-Ziri, M. Cordero, D. Geisler, M. Hilker, K. … 展开作者

F. Niederhofer, N. Bastian, V. Kozhurina-Platais, S. Larsen, M. Salaris, E. Dalessandro, A. Mucciarelli, I. Cabrera-Ziri, M. Cordero, D. Geisler, M. Hilker, K. Hollyhead, N. Kacharov, C. Lardo, C. Li, D. Mackey, I. Platais

摘要:

我们开始使用哈勃太空望远镜上的WFC 3/UVIS仪器进行测光调查,以寻找麦哲伦星云星团中不同年龄的多个种群。在本文中,我们介绍了这项调查。作为该计划的第一个结果,我们还介绍了NGC 121的多波段光度观测在不同的过滤器与WFC 3/UVIS和ACS/WFC仪器。我们分析了小麦哲伦星云中唯一的“经典”球状星团NGC 121的色星等图。因此,我们用假彩色C_(F336 W,F438 W,F343 N)=(F336 W-F438 W)-(F438 W-F343 N)来区分不同C、N丰度的群体。我们表明,红巨星分支分裂成两个不同的人口时,使用这种颜色组合。因此,NGC 121似乎类似于银河系的球状星团,拥有多个种群。NGC 121中的富集星(富N,贫C)的比例约为32% +/-3%,低于银河系球状星团中的中值比例。与原始种群相比,富集种群似乎更加集中。这些结果与Dalessandro等人(2016)的最新结果一致。使用滤光器F555 W和F814 W的CMD中的水平分支的形态最好由具有Delta(Y)=0.025+/-0.005的氦扩散的群体产生。

英文摘要:

We started a photometric survey using the WFC3/UVIS instrument onboard the Hubble Space Telescope to search for multiple populations within Magellanic Cloud star clusters at various ages. In this paper, we introduce this survey. As first results of this programme, we also present multi-band photometric observations of NGC 121 in different filters taken with the WFC3/UVIS and ACS/WFC instruments. We analyze the colour-magnitude diagram (CMD) of NGC 121, which is the only "classical" globular cluster within the Small Magellanic Cloud. Thereby, we use the pseudo-colour C_(F336W,F438W,F343N)=(F336W-F438W)-(F438W-F343N) to separate populations with different C and N abundances. We show that the red giant branch splits up in two distinct populations when using this colour combination. NGC 121 thus appears to be similar to Galactic globular clusters in hosting multiple populations. The fraction of enriched stars (N rich, C poor) in NGC 121 is about 32% +/- 3%, which is lower than the median fraction found in Milky Way globular clusters. The enriched population seems to be more centrally concentrated compared to the primordial one. These results are consistent with the recent results by Dalessandro et al. (2016). The morphology of the Horizontal Branch in a CMD using the optical filters F555W and F814W is best produced by a population with a spread in Helium of Delta(Y) =0.025+/-0.005.

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