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46个球状星团沿红巨星分支的质量损失及其多重星群

Mass loss along the red giant branch in 46 Globular Clusters and their multiple populations

M. Tailo, A. P. Milone, E. P. Lagioia, F. D'Antona, A. F. Marino, E. Vesperini, V. Caloi, P. Ventura, E. Dondoglio, G. Cordoni

摘要:

银河系球状星团'(GC)恒星在水平支(HB)上的位置应该主要取决于GC金属丰度这一“第一参数”,但它实际上是红巨星支(RGB)质量损失、不同氦含量的多个恒星星族共存、以及“第二参数”的存在,该参数在具有类似金属丰度和年龄的GC(如M3-M13对)的HB形态中产生显著差异。在这项工作中,我们结合了整个数据集从哈勃太空望远镜财政部调查和恒星演化模型,分析46个GC的HB。对于第一次在一个大样本的GC,我们产生人口合成模型,其中氦丰度的第一代和“极端”的第二代的约束使用独立的测量的基础上RGB星。主要结果是:1)第一代恒星的质量损失与星团金属丰度密切相关。2)只有采用比第一代更高的RGB质量损失,才能再现HB上氦富集星的位置。质量损失的差异与氦增强和团簇质量有关。3)作者先前开发的“主序前盘早期损失”模型解释了这种质量损失的增加,并且与多种群形成模型的研究结果一致,该模型预测氦中增强的种群倾向于形成更高的恒星密度和浓度。4)氦增强和质量损失都对第二个参数有贡献。

英文摘要:

The location of Galactic Globular Clusters' (GC) stars on the horizontal branch (HB) should mainly depend on GC metallicity, the "first parameter", but it is actually the result of complex interactions between the red giant branch (RGB) mass loss, the coexistence of multiple stellar populations with different helium content, and the presence of a "second parameter" which produces dramatic differences in HB morphology of GCs of similar metallicity and ages (like the pair M3--M13). In this work, we combine the entire dataset from the Hubble Space Telescope Treasury survey and stellar evolutionary models, to analyse the HBs of 46 GCs. For the first time in a large sample of GCs, we generate population synthesis models, where the helium abundances for the first and the "extreme" second generations are constrained using independent measurements based on RGB stars. The main results are: 1) the mass loss of first generation stars is tightly correlated to cluster metallicity. 2) the location of helium enriched stars on the HB is reproduced only by adopting a higher RGB mass loss than for the first generation. The difference in mass loss correlates with helium enhancement and cluster mass. 3) A model of "pre-main sequence disc early loss", previously developed by the authors, explains such a mass loss increase and is consistent with the findings of multiple-population formation models predicting that populations more enhanced in helium tend to form with higher stellar densities and concentrations. 4) Helium-enhancement and mass-loss both contribute to the second parameter.

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