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NGC 6441内和周围RR天琴座星的径向速度

Radial velocities of RR Lyrae stars in and around NGC 6441

Andrea Kunder, Arthur Mills, Joseph Edgecomb, Mathew Thomas, Levi Schilter, Craig Boyle, Stephen Parker, Gordon Bellevue, R. Michael Rich, Andreas Koch, Christi… 展开作者

Andrea Kunder, Arthur Mills, Joseph Edgecomb, Mathew Thomas, Levi Schilter, Craig Boyle, Stephen Parker, Gordon Bellevue, R. Michael Rich, Andreas Koch, Christian I. Johnson, David M. Nataf

摘要:

银河系球核贫金属([Fe/H]-1 dex)星的详细元素丰度模式表明,它们中的一些与球状星团(GC)星一致,可能是溶解GC的前成员。这将表明,银河系隆起的百分之几是由球状星团的破坏和/或蒸发形成的。本文试图利用大质量内星系球状星团NGC~6441中丰富的天琴座RR型变星(RRL)星群来识别这种可能的剥离星。本文给出了以球状星团NGC~6441为中心的40个RRL的径向速度。在星团潮汐半径范围内观测到的13个RRL,其平均径向速度为24 ± 5 km/s,星间散射为11 km/s,与星团成员一致。这包括两个以前未与群集关联的新RRL。八个RRL的径向速度一致的集群成员资格,但高达三倍的距离,从潮汐半径也报告。这些潜在的潮汐外RRL也有非常长的周期,这是NGC~6441 RRL群体的一个奇怪特征,它拥有的RRL周期比银河系其他任何地方都长。正如被剥离的星团恒星所预期的那样,大多数都与星团的轨道成一直线。因此,要么NGC~6441的潮汐半径被低估了,要么我们看到的是来自NGC~6441的正在溶解的星团恒星,它们正在形成旧的球状凸起。

英文摘要:

Detailed elemental abundance patterns of metal-poor ([Fe/H] ~ -1~dex) stars in the Galactic bulge indicate that a number of them are consistent with globular cluster (GC) stars and may be former members of dissolved GCs. This would indicate that a few per cent of the Galactic bulge was built up from destruction and/or evaporation of globular clusters. Here an attempt is made to identify such presumptive stripped stars originating from the massive, inner Galaxy globular cluster NGC~6441 using its rich RR Lyrae variable star (RRL) population. We present radial velocities of forty RRLs centered on the globular cluster NGC~6441. All of the 13 RRLs observed within the cluster tidal radius have velocities consistent with cluster membership, with an average radial velocity of 24 +- 5~km/s and a star-to-star scatter of 11~km/s. This includes two new RRLs that were previously not associated with the cluster. Eight RRLs with radial velocities consistent with cluster membership but up to three time the distance from the tidal radius are also reported. These potential extra-tidal RRLs also have exceptionally long periods, which is a curious characteristic of the NGC~6441 RRL population that hosts RRLs with periods longer than seen anywhere else in the Milky Way. As expected of stripped cluster stars, most are inline with the cluster's orbit. Therefore, either the tidal radius of NGC~6441 is underestimated and/or we are seeing dissolving cluster stars stemming from NGC~6441 that are building up the old spheroidal bulge.

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