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中等年龄星系团积分光谱中的多总体

Multiple Populations in Integrated Light Spectroscopy of Intermediate Age Clusters

Nate Bastian, Christopher Usher, Sebastian Kamann, Carmela Lardo, Søren S. Larsen, Ivan Cabrera-Ziri, William Chantereau, Silvia Martocchia, Maurizio Salaris, R… 展开作者

Nate Bastian, Christopher Usher, Sebastian Kamann, Carmela Lardo, Søren S. Larsen, Ivan Cabrera-Ziri, William Chantereau, Silvia Martocchia, Maurizio Salaris, Ricardo P. Schiavon, Randa Asa'd, Michael Hilker

摘要:

星与星之间轻元素丰度变化的存在(也称为在银河系和所有研究过的邻近星系中,古老而巨大的星系团似乎无处不在。大多数以前的研究都集中在解决个别恒星的图像或光谱,虽然在过去的几年里,已经有显着的努力,寻找多个人口的综合光谱签名。如果被证明是可行的,集成光研究提供了一种潜在的方法来大大开放参数空间,因为可以研究数十Mpc的集群。我们使用的NaD线的综合光谱的两个集群具有相似的年龄($2-3$陀螺仪),但非常不同的质量,NGC 1978($\sim3\times10^5$ Msun)在LMC和G114($1.7\times10^7$ Msun)在NGC 1316。对于NGC 1978年,我们的研究结果同意解决个别恒星的研究,没有发现证据的钠蔓延。然而,对于G114,我们发现了多个种群存在的明确证据。在中间年龄和古老的GC中都发现了相同的异常丰度模式,这一事实进一步支持了这样一种观点,即年轻的大质量星团实际上与古老的球状星团相同,只是年龄不同。

英文摘要:

The presence of star-to-star light-element abundance variations (a.k.a. multiple populations, MPs) appears to be ubiquitous within old and massive clusters in the Milky Way and all studied nearby galaxies. Most previous studies have focussed on resolved images or spectroscopy of individual stars, although there has been significant effort in the past few years to look for multiple population signatures in integrated light spectroscopy. If proven feasible, integrated light studies offer a potential way to vastly open parameter space, as clusters out to tens of Mpc can be studied. We use the NaD lines in the integrated spectra of two clusters with similar ages ($2-3$ Gyr) but very different masses, NGC 1978 ($\sim3\times10^5$ Msun) in the LMC and G114 ($1.7\times10^7$ Msun) in NGC 1316. For NGC 1978, our findings agree with resolved studies of individual stars which did not find evidence for Na spreads. However, for G114, we find clear evidence for the presence of multiple populations. The fact that the same anomalous abundance patterns are found in both the intermediate age and ancient GCs lends further support to the notion that young massive clusters are effectively the same as the ancient globular clusters, only separated in age.

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