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麦哲伦星云中四个年轻大质量星系团扩展的主序转折的发现

Discovery of Extended Main Sequence Turn-offs in Four Young Massive Clusters in the Magellanic Clouds

Chengyuan Li, Richard de Grijs, Licai Deng, Antonino P. Milone

摘要:

麦哲伦星云中越来越多的年轻大质量星系团(YMC)在其色星等图(CMD)中表现出双峰或扩展的主序(MS)。这些特征通常被解释为具有不同恒星旋转速率的同时代恒星群,其中蓝色和红色MS星分别由非(或缓慢)和快速旋转的恒星星族组成。然而,一些研究表明,需要几百万年的年龄跨度才能重现在一些YMC中观察到的宽关闭区域。本文利用高精度的哈勃空间望远镜测光技术,给出了四个大小麦哲伦云YMC(NGC 330、NGC 1805、NGC 1818和NGC 2164)的紫外-可见光CMD。我们发现,他们都表现出扩展的主序列关断(MSTO)。年龄传播和恒星自转的重要性再现的意见进行了调查。观测到的扩展MSTO不能单独用恒星自转来解释。采用3500万至5000万的年龄跨度可以缓解这一困难。我们的结论是,在这些集群中的恒星的特点是在他们的年龄和旋转特性的范围,但在这些集群中的年龄分布的起源仍然未知。

英文摘要:

An increasing number of young massive clusters (YMCs) in the Magellanic Clouds have been found to exhibit bimodal or extended main sequences (MSs) in their color--magnitude diagrams (CMDs). These features are usually interpreted in terms of a coeval stellar population with different stellar rotational rates, where the blue and red MS stars are populated by non- (or slowly) and rapidly rotating stellar populations, respectively. However, some studies have shown that an age spread of several million years is required to reproduce the observed wide turn-off regions in some YMCs. Here we present the ultraviolet--visual CMDs of four Large and Small Magellanic Cloud YMCs, NGC 330, NGC 1805, NGC 1818, and NGC 2164, based on high-precision Hubble Space Telescope photometry. We show that they all exhibit extended main-sequence turn-offs (MSTOs). The importance of age spreads and stellar rotation in reproducing the observations is investigated. The observed extended MSTOs cannot be explained by stellar rotation alone. Adopting an age spread of 35--50 Myr can alleviate this difficulty. We conclude that stars in these clusters are characterized by ranges in both their ages and rotation properties, but the origin of the age spread in these clusters remains unknown.

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