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麦哲伦星云中中等年龄星团旋转主序星的最小质量及其对扩展主序星转折性质的影响

The Minimum Mass of Rotating Main Sequence Stars and its Impact on the Nature of Extended Main Sequence Turnoffs in Intermediate-Age Star Clusters in the Magellanic Clouds

Paul Goudfrooij, Leo Girardi, Andrea Bellini, Alessandro Bressan, Matteo Correnti, Guglielmo Costa

摘要:

扩展主序星关闭(eMSTO)是麦哲伦星云中年轻和中等年龄星团色星等图(CMD)的一个共同特征。eMSTO的性质仍有争议。最受欢迎的场景是扩展的恒星形成和恒星旋转速率的范围。本文研究了大麦云星云(LMC)中年轻星团主序(MS)中扭结特征的含义。在对7亿年前的星系团NGC 1831进行的新的\emph{Hubble Space Telescope}观测中,这种扭折非常清楚地显示出来,并且位于CMD中多个或宽的MS合并成一个MS的区域之下,这些MS已知出现在年轻的星系团中,并且被认为是由于旋转速率的变化,扭折发生在初始恒星质量为$1.45 \pm 0.02\;M_{\odot}$的时候;我们认为,它代表了一个质量下限,低于这个下限,在这些星团的金属丰度下,自转对恒星能量输出的影响可以忽略不计。评估的位置,这样的初始质量的恒星在CMD的大规模LMC星团的年龄为$\sim\,$ 1.7 Gyr的功能广泛的eMSTO,我们发现,这样的恒星位于一个区域的eMSTO已经显着宽比MS下面it. This强烈建议恒星旋转\emph{cannot}充分解释了广泛的eMSTO在大规模的中期年龄集群的麦哲伦云。恒星年龄的分布似乎仍然需要解释eMSTO现象。

英文摘要:

Extended main sequence turn-offs (eMSTOs) are a common feature in color-magnitude diagrams (CMDs) of young and intermediate-age star clusters in the Magellanic Clouds. The nature of eMSTOs is still debated. The most popular scenarios are extended star formation and ranges of stellar rotation rates. Here we study implications of a kink feature in the main sequence (MS) of young star clusters in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC). This kink shows up very clearly in new \emph{Hubble Space Telescope} observations of the 700-Myr-old cluster NGC 1831, and is located below the region in the CMD where multiple or wide MSes, which are known to occur in young clusters and thought to be due to varying rotation rates, merge together into a single MS. The kink occurs at an initial stellar mass of $1.45 \pm 0.02\;M_{\odot}$; we posit that it represents a lower limit to the mass below which the effects of rotation on the energy output of stars are rendered negligible at the metallicity of these clusters. Evaluating the positions of stars with this initial mass in CMDs of massive LMC star clusters with ages of $\sim\,$1.7 Gyr that feature wide eMSTOs, we find that such stars are located in a region where the eMSTO is already significantly wider than the MS below it. This strongly suggests that stellar rotation \emph{cannot} fully explain the wide extent of eMSTOs in massive intermediate-age clusters in the Magellanic Clouds. A distribution of stellar ages still seems necessary to explain the eMSTO phenomenon.

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