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高红移厚盘原星系的金属丰度梯度

Metallicity Gradient of the Thick Disc Progenitor at High Redshift

D. Kawata, C. Allende Prieto, C. B. Brook, L. Casagrande, I. Ciucă, B. K. Gibson, R. J. J. Grand, M. R. Hayden, J. A. S. Hunt

摘要:

我们已经开发了一种新的马尔可夫链蒙特卡罗(MCMC)化学“绘画”技术,以探索可能的径向和垂直金属丰度梯度厚盘祖。在我们的分析中,我们匹配一个N体模拟的数据从阿帕奇点天文台星系演化实验(APOGEE)调查。我们假设,厚盘有一个恒定的标度高度,并已完成其形成的早期时代,在此之后的时间径向混合的恒星已经发生。在这些假设下,我们发现厚盘祖先的初始径向金属丰度梯度不应该是负的,而是平坦的甚至是正的,以解释厚盘当前的负垂直金属丰度梯度。我们的研究表明,厚光盘是建立在一个由内而外和颠倒的方式,和老年人,较小和较厚的人口更金属穷人。在这种情况下,在厚盘形成的不同时期的恒星形成盘被允许有不同的径向金属丰度梯度,包括一个负的,这有助于解释在高红移盘星系中观察到的各种斜率。这种情况有助于解释银河系厚盘的金属丰度-旋转速度关系的正斜率。另一方面,径向混合会使现有坡度的斜率变小。

英文摘要:

We have developed a novel Markov Chain Mote Carlo (MCMC) chemical "painting" technique to explore possible radial and vertical metallicity gradients for the thick disc progenitor. In our analysis we match an N-body simulation to the data from the Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment (APOGEE) survey. We assume that the thick disc has a constant scale-height and has completed its formation at an early epoch, after which time radial mixing of its stars has taken place. Under these assumptions, we find that the initial radial metallicity gradient of the thick disc progenitor should not be negative, but either flat or even positive, to explain the current negative vertical metallicity gradient of the thick disc. Our study suggests that the thick disc was built-up in an inside-out and upside-down fashion, and older, smaller and thicker populations are more metal poor. In this case, star forming discs at different epochs of the thick disc formation are allowed to have different radial metallicity gradients, including a negative one, which helps to explain a variety of slopes observed in high redshift disc galaxies. This scenario helps to explain the positive slope of the metallicity-rotation velocity relation observed for the Galactic thick disc. On the other hand, radial mixing flattens the slope of an existing gradient.

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