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星团主序星关闭时双星驱动的恒星自转演化

Binary-driven stellar rotation evolution at the main-sequence turn-off in star clusters

Weijia Sun, Richard de Grijs, Licai Deng, Michael D. Albrow

摘要:

恒星自转对星团色星等图形态的影响是公认的。然而,驱动主序星关闭(MSTO)的赤道自转速度分布的物理机制还知之甚少。利用Gaia Data Release 2测光和新的南部非洲大望远镜中分辨率光谱,我们分析了银河系疏散星团NGC 3960、NGC 6134和IC 4756的中间年龄($\sim1\,$ Gyr-old)星团,并发展了一种基于SYCLIST恒星自转模型的新方法来推导它们的恒星自转分布。结合疏散星团NGC 5822和NGC 2818的文献数据,我们发现慢旋子的数目比与星团的双星分数之间存在紧密的相关性。至少在我们的两个星团中,蓝色主序星比红色主序星更集中。赤道恒星自转分布的起源及其演化至今尚未确定。然而,在我们的疏散星团样本中观察到的相关性表明了一种双星驱动的形成机制。

英文摘要:

The impact of stellar rotation on the morphology of star cluster colour-magnitude diagrams is widely acknowledged. However, the physics driving the distribution of the equatorial rotation velocities of main-sequence turn-off (MSTO) stars is as yet poorly understood. Using Gaia Data Release 2 photometry and new Southern African Large Telescope medium-resolution spectroscopy, we analyse the intermediate-age ($\sim1\,$Gyr-old) Galactic open clusters NGC 3960, NGC 6134 and IC 4756 and develop a novel method to derive their stellar rotation distributions based on SYCLIST stellar rotation models. Combined with literature data for the open clusters NGC 5822 and NGC 2818, we find a tight correlation between the number ratio of slow rotators and the clusters' binary fractions. The blue-main-sequence stars in at least two of our clusters are more centrally concentrated than their red-main-sequence counterparts. The origin of the equatorial stellar rotation distribution and its evolution remains as yet unidentified. However, the observed correlation in our open cluster sample suggests a binary-driven formation mechanism.

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