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Gaia-ESO调查:M67中原子扩散的证据?

The Gaia-ESO Survey: Evidence of atomic diffusion in M67?

C. Bertelli Motta, A. Pasquali, J. Richer, G. Michaud, M. Salaris, A. Bragaglia, L. Magrini, S. Randich, E. K. Grebel, V. Adibekyan, S. Blanco-Cuaresma, A. Draz… 展开作者

C. Bertelli Motta, A. Pasquali, J. Richer, G. Michaud, M. Salaris, A. Bragaglia, L. Magrini, S. Randich, E. K. Grebel, V. Adibekyan, S. Blanco-Cuaresma, A. Drazdauskas, X. Fu, S. Martell, G. Tautvaišienė, G. Gilmore, E. J. Alfaro, T. Bensby, E. Flaccomio, S. E. Koposov, A. J. Korn, A. C. Lanzafame, R. Smiljanic, A. Bayo, G. Carraro, A. R. Casey, M. T. Costado, F. Damiani, E. Franciosini, U. Heiter, A. Hourihane, P. Jofré, C. Lardo, J. Lewis, L. Monaco, L. Morbidelli, G. G. Sacco, S. G. Sousa, C. C. Worley, S. Zaggia

摘要:

研究几乎同时从同一分子云中诞生的恒星的化学均匀性,对于我们理解星际介质的化学富集以及银河系的化学演化非常重要。疏散星团丰度不均匀的一个主要原因是星团成员的恒星演化。在这项工作中,我们调查的表面化学成分的变化的老疏散星团M67的成员星作为一个可能的后果发生在主序星阶段的原子扩散效应。所用丰度是在盖亚-欧洲南方天文台巡天框架内从高分辨率紫外线/火焰光谱中获得的。我们发现,恒星的表面丰度的主序列上的质量增加而减少,达到最低值在关闭。在亚巨星分支星的对流包层加深后,初始表面丰度恢复。我们发现测量的丰度与恒星演化模型对M67年龄和金属丰度的星团的预测是一致的。我们的研究结果表明,原子扩散对化学标记方法的可实现精度构成了不可忽视的限制。

英文摘要:

Investigating the chemical homogeneity of stars born from the same molecular cloud at virtually the same time is very important for our understanding of the chemical enrichment of the interstellar medium and with it the chemical evolution of the Galaxy. One major cause of inhomogeneities in the abundances of open clusters is stellar evolution of the cluster members. In this work, we investigate variations in the surface chemical composition of member stars of the old open cluster M67 as a possible consequence of atomic diffusion effects taking place during the main-sequence phase. The abundances used are obtained from high-resolution UVES/FLAMES spectra within the framework of the Gaia-ESO Survey. We find that the surface abundances of stars on the main sequence decrease with increasing mass reaching a minimum at the turn-off. After deepening of the convective envelope in sub-giant branch stars, the initial surface abundances are restored. We found the measured abundances to be consistent with the predictions of stellar evolutionary models for a cluster with the age and metallicity of M67. Our findings indicate that atomic diffusion poses a non-negligible constraint on the achievable precision of chemical tagging methods.

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