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arXiv 2008.09901astro-ph.GA
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人马座矮星系中发现18颗-3.10 < [Fe/H] < -1.45的恒星

Discovery of 18 stars with -3.10 < [Fe/H] < -1.45 in the Sagittarius dwarf galaxy

Anirudh Chiti, Kylie Y. Hansen, Anna Frebel

摘要:

对一些较大矮星系($>10^7$太阳质量)早期化学演化的研究受到这些系统中已知低金属丰度恒星数量少的限制。在这里,我们目前的金属丰度和碳丰度之间的$-3.08 \le \text{[Fe/H]} \le -1.47$在人马座矮球状星系的18颗恒星,使用中分辨率光谱从麦哲伦巴德望远镜的MagE摄谱仪。这个样本使人马座矮星系中已知的极贫金属恒星([Fe/H] $\leq -2.0$)的数量增加了一倍多,并确定了该系统中第一批已知的极贫金属恒星([Fe/H] $\leq -3.0$)。使用SkyMapper DR1.1的公开、金属敏感测光和盖亚DR 2的自行数据,这些恒星被确定为人马座的可能贫金属成员,这表明在一些矮星系中缺乏贫金属恒星可以通过使用公共数据进行有针对性的搜索来解决。我们发现,在我们的样本中,没有一颗恒星的碳含量增加,这与银河系晕中此类恒星的相对普遍性形成对比。随后对这些恒星的高分辨率光谱分析将是详细描述该系统早期化学演化的关键。

英文摘要:

Studies of the early chemical evolution of some larger dwarf galaxies ( $>10^7$ solar masses) are limited by the small number of stars known at low metallicities in these systems. Here we present metallicities and carbon abundances for eighteen stars with metallicities between $-3.08 \le \text{[Fe/H]} \le -1.47$ in the Sagittarius dwarf spheroidal galaxy, using medium-resolution spectra from the MagE spectrograph on the Magellan-Baade Telescope. This sample more than doubles the number of known very metal-poor stars ([Fe/H] $\leq -2.0$) in the Sagittarius dwarf galaxy, and identifies one of the first known extremely metal-poor stars ([Fe/H] $\leq -3.0$) in the system. These stars were identified as likely metal-poor members of Sagittarius using public, metallicity-sensitive photometry from SkyMapper DR1.1 and proper motion data from Gaia DR2, demonstrating that this dearth of metal-poor stars in some dwarf galaxies can be addressed with targeted searches using public data. We find that none of the stars in our sample are enhanced in carbon, in contrast to the relative prevalence of such stars in the Milky Way halo. Subsequent high-resolution spectroscopy of these stars would be key in detailing the early chemical evolution of the system.

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