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关于$ω$ Centauri - II的HST大型方案。内运动学

The HST large programme on $ω$ Centauri - II. internal kinematics

A. Bellini, M. Libralato, L. R. Bedin, A. P. Milone, R. P. van der Marel, J. Anderson, D. Apai, A. J. Burgasser, A. F. Marino, J. M. Rees

摘要:

在本系列的第二部分中,我们将在哈勃太空望远镜(HST)平行视场中观察半人马座球状星团$ω$的多个恒星种群的内部运动学,该视场位于距离星团中心约3.5个半光半径处。由于HST相机超过15年的基线和精湛的天体测量精度,我们自行星表中测量良好的恒星的误差低至$\sim 10\ μ$和$^{-1}$年,星表本身延伸到接近星团的氢燃烧极限。我们发现,第二代(2G)的明星是显着更径向各向异性比第一代(1G)的明星。而后者与各向同性速度分布一致。此外,1G星相对于2G星在天空平面上有过多的系统旋转。我们发现,在我们的第一篇论文中确定的主序列(MS)膝盖以下的六个人口与最近在集群的核心上MS上隔离的五个主要人口群相关。此外,我们发现在现场的1G和2G恒星是远离能量均分,与$η_{\rm 1G}=-0.007\pm0.026$为前者,和$η_{\rm 2G}=0.074\pm0.029$为后者,其中$η$的定义,使速度色散$σ_μ$与恒星质量的比例为$σ_μ\propto m^{-η}$。这里报道的运动学差异可以帮助限制在$ω$半人马座和其他球状星团的多个恒星种群的形成机制。我们公开了我们的天文测光表。

英文摘要:

In this second installment of the series, we look at the internal kinematics of the multiple stellar populations of the globular cluster $ω$ Centauri in one of the parallel Hubble Space Telescope (HST) fields, located at about 3.5 half-light radii from the center of the cluster. Thanks to the over 15-year-long baseline and the exquisite astrometric precision of the HST cameras, well-measured stars in our proper-motion catalog have errors as low as $\sim 10\ μ$as yr$^{-1}$, and the catalog itself extends to near the hydrogen-burning limit of the cluster. We show that second-generation (2G) stars are significantly more radially anisotropic than first-generation (1G) stars. The latter are instead consistent with an isotropic velocity distribution. In addition, 1G have excess systemic rotation in the plane of the sky with respect to 2G stars. We show that the six populations below the main-sequence (MS) knee identified in our first paper are associated to the five main population groups recently isolated on the upper MS in the core of cluster. Furthermore, we find both 1G and 2G stars in the field to be far from being in energy equipartition, with $η_{\rm 1G}=-0.007\pm0.026$ for the former, and $η_{\rm 2G}=0.074\pm0.029$ for the latter, where $η$ is defined so that the velocity dispersion $σ_μ$ scales with stellar mass as $σ_μ\propto m^{-η}$. The kinematical differences reported here can help constrain the formation mechanisms for the multiple stellar populations in $ω$ Centauri and other globular clusters. We make our astro-photometric catalog publicly available.

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