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arXiv 2006.16280astro-ph.GA
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通过场星和球状星团星族化学丰度的径向变化研究M87的聚集历史

The Assembly History of M87 Through Radial Variations in Chemical Abundances of its Field Star And Globular Cluster Populations

Alexa Villaume, Daniel Foreman-Mackey, Aaron J. Romanowsky, Jean Brodie, Jay Strader

摘要:

本文对M87及其球状星团(GC)系统的光谱化学丰度进行了广泛的研究。利用McDonald的Mitchell摄谱仪、Keck的LRIS和MMT上的Hectospec的观测结果,我们推导出从$\sim 2$到$140$ kpc的新的金属丰度梯度。我们使用一种新的分层统计框架,同时分离成亚群的GC系统,同时测量这些亚群的金属丰度梯度。我们通过利用这个统计框架的输出来创建GC亚群的物理动机光谱堆栈,以在大规模ETG中执行丰度标记的第一个应用程序,以更好地约束GC亚群的起源,从而约束M87的组装历史。我们发现了一个金属贫乏,$α$增强人口的GC在内部和外部的光环,目前的宇宙学模拟星系演化所预料不到的。我们使用显着平坦的金属丰度梯度,我们发现的金属丰富和金属贫GC亚群的内晕作为试探性的证据,一些数量的金属贫GC直接形成在晕的M87在高红移。

英文摘要:

We present an extensive study of spectroscopically-derived chemical abundances for M87 and its globular cluster (GC) system. Using observations from the Mitchell spectrograph at McDonald, LRIS at Keck, and Hectospec on the MMT, we derive new metallicity gradients from $\sim 2$ to $140$ kpc. We use a novel hierarchical statistical framework to simultaneously separate the GC system into subpopulations while measuring the metallicity gradients of those subpopulations. We create physically-motivated spectral stacks of the GC subpopulations by leveraging the output of this statistical framework to perform the first application of abundance tagging in a massive ETG to better constrain the origins of the GC subpopulations and, thus, the assembly history of M87. We find a metal-poor, $α$-enhanced population of GCs in both in the inner and outer halo unanticipated by current cosmological simulations of galaxy evolution. We use the remarkably flat metallicity gradients we find for both the metal-rich and metal-poor GC subpopulations in the inner halo as tentative evidence that some amount of the metal-poor GCs formed directly in the halo of M87 at high redshift.

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