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大麦云云外围的年轻恒星

Young stars in the periphery of the Large Magellanic Cloud

C. Moni Bidin, D. I. Casetti-Dinescu, T. M. Girard, L. Zhang, R. A. Mendez, K. Vieira, V. I. Korchagin, W. F. van Altena

摘要:

尽管它们非常接近,但两个麦哲伦星云、银河系以及由此产生的潮汐特征之间的复杂相互作用仍然知之甚少。最近的研究表明,大麦云云(LMC)在其外围有一个非常扩展的盘,受到显著的扰动。我们在大麦哲伦星系的远郊寻找最近的恒星形成,距离其中心约30度。我们收集了大麦哲伦星系外围31颗年轻恒星候选者的中分辨率光谱,并测量了它们的径向速度、恒星参数、距离和年龄。我们的测量确认成员的LMC的六个目标,径向速度和距离值匹配以及云。这些天体都是年轻的(1000 - 5000万年),主序星,从母星系中心投影7到13度。我们比较了我们的恒星的速度与盘模型,发现我们的恒星有低到中等的速度差异与盘模型的预测,表明它们是在原地形成的。我们的研究表明,最近的恒星形成发生在大麦哲伦星系的外围,到目前为止,那里只知道古老的物体。这些新形成的恒星的空间结构呈环状,半径为12 kpc,距离大麦哲伦星系中心的位移为2.6 kpc。这个结构,如果是真的,将暗示着小麦哲伦星云和大麦哲伦星云盘之间的偏心碰撞引发的恒星形成事件。

英文摘要:

Despite their close proximity, the complex interplay between the two Magellanic Clouds, the Milky Way, and the resulting tidal features, is still poorly understood. Recent studies have shown that the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) has a very extended disk strikingly perturbed in its outskirts. We search for recent star formation in the far outskirts of the LMC, out to ~30 degrees from its center. We have collected intermediate-resolution spectra of thirty-one young star candidates in the periphery of the LMC and measured their radial velocity, stellar parameters, distance and age. Our measurements confirm membership to the LMC of six targets, for which the radial velocity and distance values match well those of the Cloud. These objects are all young (10-50 Myr), main-sequence stars projected between 7 and 13 degrees from the center of the parent galaxy. We compare the velocities of our stars with those of a disk model, and find that our stars have low to moderate velocity differences with the disk model predictions, indicating that they were formed in situ. Our study demonstrates that recent star formation occurred in the far periphery of the LMC, where thus far only old objects were known. The spatial configuration of these newly-formed stars appears ring-like with a radius of 12 kpc, and a displacement of 2.6 kpc from the LMC's center. This structure, if real, would be suggestive of a star-formation episode triggered by an off-center collision between the Small Magellanic Cloud and the LMC's disk.

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