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矮不规则星系狮子座A中的星团

Star clusters in the dwarf irregular galaxy Leo A

Rima Stonkute, Rokas Naujalis, Marius Ceponis, Alina Lescinskaite, Vladas Vansevicius

摘要:

狮子座A是一个孤立的富含气体的矮不规则星系,恒星质量和金属量都很低,位于本星系群的外围。狮子座A恒星星族的年龄从$\sim$ 1000万年到$\sim$ 10 Gyr不等。到目前为止,在这个星系中只发现了一个星团。我们的目标是在狮子座A星系中寻找星团候选者。我们在HST ACS存档观测框架上进行了$F475W$和$F814W$通带中的恒星状物体的测光,并研究了狮子座A星的空间聚类,直到旧恒星星族的关闭点。我们报告了在狮子座A星系中发现的四个星团。这意味着现在在狮子座A中已知有五个星团的样本。其中两个集群的年龄较小($\sim$ 2 000万年;与HII区域重叠),质量较低($\gtrsim$ 400 M $_\odot$和$\gtrsim$ 150 M $_\odot$),另外三个集群的年龄较大($\gtrsim$ 100百万年),质量也较低($\gtrsim$ 300 M MQ $_\odot$)。这些粗略的估计是在假设HII区($Z=0.0007$)金属丰度等时线的情况下做出的。给出了星团周围半径为2.5角秒的圆形区域内恒星的色星等图和星团的综合孔径测光结果。

英文摘要:

Leo A is an isolated gas-rich dwarf irregular galaxy of low stellar mass and metallicity residing at the outskirts of the Local Group. Ages of the stellar populations in Leo A range from $\sim$10 Myr to $\sim$10 Gyr. So far, only one star cluster has been discovered in this galaxy. Our aim is to search for star cluster candidates in the Leo A galaxy. We performed photometry of star-like objects on HST ACS archive observation frames in the $F475W$ and $F814W$ passbands and studied the spatial clustering of the Leo A stars down to the turn-off point of the old stellar populations. We report the discovery of four star clusters in the Leo A galaxy. This means that now a sample of five star clusters is known in Leo A. Two clusters are of a young age ($\sim$20 Myr; overlapping with HII regions) and low in mass ($\gtrsim$400 M$_\odot$ and $\gtrsim$150 M$_\odot$), the other three clusters are older ($\gtrsim$100 Myr) and also of low mass ($\gtrsim$300 M$_\odot$). These rough estimates are made assuming the isochrones of a metallicity derived for HII regions ($Z=0.0007$). Colour-magnitude diagrams of the stars residing in the circular areas of a 2.5arcsec radius around the clusters and integrated aperture photometry results of the clusters are presented.

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