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arXiv 1809.01709astro-ph.GA
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在大麦云星云的古老球状星团中寻找内在的金属丰度分布

Search for an intrinsic metallicity spread in old globular clusters of the Large Magellanic Cloud

Andrés E. Piatti, Andreas Koch

摘要:

本文首次报道了大麦云(LMC)中10个老球状星团(GC)的内禀[Fe/H]扩散的大小。这种扩散仅在大约5%的银河系GC中观察到,最近在GC演化的理论模型中获得了更多的关注。我们从斯特伦格伦测光中获得了平均每个GC 14颗红巨星分支星的金属丰度,其典型精度为0.05 dex < sigma[Fe/H] < 0.20 dex。相应的金属敏感指数已被校准到精确和准确的高色散光谱。对于所有的集群,我们发现零[Fe/H]的传播与一个典型的不确定性为0.04 dex,与可能的例外的NGC 1786,显示了一个内在的分散0.07+-0.04 dex。我们的GC样品中近40%的衍生金属丰度的平均观测标准偏差小于0.05 dex。目前,我们不能排除其余的GC也有超过0.05 dex的内在铁丰度变化,但为了显着检测这些,个别[Fe/H]-值的测量误差将需要降低到0.03- 0.07 dex的水平。这些发现表明,随着年龄和轻元素丰度,这里研究的LMC GC与大多数银河系GC相似。

英文摘要:

We report for the first time on the magnitude of the intrinsic [Fe/H] spread among ten old globular clusters (GCs) of the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC). Such spreads are merely observed in approximately five per cent of the Milky Way GCs and recently gained more attention in theoretical models of GC evolution. We derived metallicities with a typical precision of 0.05 dex < sigma[Fe/H] < 0.20 dex for an average of 14 red giant branch stars per GC from Strömgren photometry. The respective, metallicity-sensitive indices have been calibrated to precise and accurate high-dispersion spectroscopy. For all clusters we found null [Fe/H] spreads with a typical uncertainty of 0.04 dex, with the possible exception of NGC1786 that shows an intrinsic dispersion of 0.07+-0.04 dex. The mean, observed standard deviation of the derived metallicities for nearly 40 per cent of our GC sample amounted to smaller than 0.05 dex. At present, we cannot exclude that the remaining GCs also have intrinsic Fe-abundance variations in excess of 0.05 dex, but in order to significantly detect those, the measurement errors on individual [Fe/H]-values would need to be lowered to the 0.03--0.07 dex level. These findings suggest, along with those from ages and light-element abundances, that the LMC GCs studied here are alike to the majority of Galactic GCs.

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