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arXiv 2008.00012astro-ph.GA
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粉碎低表面亮度SMC

SMASHing the low surface brightness SMC

Pol Massana, Noelia E. D. Noël, David L. Nidever, Denis Erkal, Thomas J. L. de Boer, Yumi Choi, Steven R. Majewski, Knut Olsen, Antonela Monachesi, Carme Gallar… 展开作者

Pol Massana, Noelia E. D. Noël, David L. Nidever, Denis Erkal, Thomas J. L. de Boer, Yumi Choi, Steven R. Majewski, Knut Olsen, Antonela Monachesi, Carme Gallart, Roeland P. van der Marel, Tomás Ruiz-Lara, Dennis Zaritsky, Nicolas F. Martin, Ricardo R. Muñoz, Maria-Rosa L. Cioni, Cameron P. M. Bell, Eric F. Bell, Guy S. Stringfellow, Vasily Belokurov, Matteo Monelli, Alistair R. Walker, David Martínez-Delgado, A. Katherina Vivas, Blair C. Conn

摘要:

小麦哲伦云(SMC)的外围可以揭示相互作用系统中有关星系形成和演化的重要信息。在这里,我们提出了一个详细的研究扩展恒星结构的SMC使用深色星等图(CMD),作为调查的MAgellanic恒星历史(SMASH)的一部分。特别注意的是,在我们的数据从MW前景恒星,包括前景球状星团NGC 362和47 Tuc的净化。我们推导出SMC表面亮度使用“保守”的方法,从我们计算的SMC的一般参数,发现交错的表面亮度分布。我们还通过绘制恒星密度分布图来追踪较暗的外围。这种方法基于对最古老的主序星(MSTO)的恒星计数,发现了一个潮汐中断的恒星特征,距离SMC中心12度。我们还意外地发现了一个不明来源的微弱特征,位于距离SMC中心$\sim 14$度的位置,我们暂时将其与一个更遥远的结构联系起来。我们将我们的结果与$1\times10^{9} M_\odot$ SMC的内部模拟进行了比较,发现其椭圆形形状可以通过MW和LMC共同存在下的潮汐破坏来解释。最后,我们发现,较老的恒星星族显示出一个平滑的轮廓,而年轻的组件呈现出一个跳跃的密度,其次是一个平坦的轮廓,证实了严重干扰的SMC的性质。

英文摘要:

The periphery of the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) can unlock important information regarding galaxy formation and evolution in interacting systems. Here, we present a detailed study of the extended stellar structure of the SMC using deep colour-magnitude diagrams (CMDs), obtained as part of the Survey of the MAgellanic Stellar History (SMASH). Special care was taken in the decontamination of our data from MW foreground stars, including from foreground globular clusters NGC 362 and 47 Tuc. We derived the SMC surface brightness using a ``conservative'' approach from which we calculated the general parameters of the SMC, finding a staggered surface brightness profile. We also traced the fainter outskirts by constructing a stellar density profile. This approach, based on stellar counts of the oldest main sequence turn-off (MSTO) stars, uncovered a tidally disrupted stellar feature that reaches as far out as 12 degrees from the SMC centre. We also serendipitously found a faint feature of unknown origin located at $\sim 14$ degrees from the centre of the SMC and that we tentatively associated to a more distant structure. We compared our results to in-house simulations of a $1\times10^{9} M_\odot$ SMC, finding that its elliptical shape can be explained by its tidal disruption under the combined presence of the MW and the LMC. Finally, we found that the older stellar populations show a smooth profile while the younger component presents a jump in the density followed by a flat profile, confirming the heavily disturbed nature of the SMC.

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