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麦哲伦星云中蓝色主序星的空间分布

The spatial distributions of blue main-sequence stars in Magellanic Cloud star clusters

Yujiao Yang, Chengyuan Li, Richard de Grijs, Licai Deng

摘要:

年轻星团的色星等图(CMD)显示,特别是在紫外线波长下,它们的上主序列(MS)分叉成一个由大量人口和蓝色外围组成的序列。恒星的空间分布对于理解这些不同的恒星星族的原因至关重要。本研究利用哈伯太空望远镜所获得的高解析度光度资料,研究七个麦哲伦星云星团中恒星星族的空间分布。四个星团内的蓝星累积径向数分数与分叉区的高质量比双星的径向数分数有很强的反相关,皮尔逊系数为负,小于-0.7。这些星系团通常是年轻的,或者处于早期的动态演化阶段。此外,一个支持的N体模拟表明,从星团中心到外围的蓝色MS星的百分比增加可能与软双星的溶解有关。本研究提供了一个不同的视角来探索年轻集群中的MS双峰,并增加了额外的困惑。未来需要进行更全面的研究,并结合详细的模拟。

英文摘要:

The color-magnitude diagrams (CMDs) of young star clusters show that, particularly at ultraviolet wavelengths, their upper main sequences (MSs) bifurcate into a sequence comprising the bulk population and a blue periphery. The spatial distribution of stars is crucial to understand the reasons for these distinct stellar populations. This study uses high-resolution photometric data obtained with the Hubble Space Telescope to study the spatial distributions of the stellar populations in seven Magellanic Cloud star clusters. The cumulative radial number fractions of blue stars within four clusters are strongly anti-correlated with those of the high-mass-ratio binaries in the bifurcated region, with negative Pearson coefficients < -0.7. Those clusters generally are young or in an early dynamical evolutionary stage. In addition, a supporting N-body simulation suggests the increasing percentage of blue-MS stars from the cluster centers to their outskirts may be associated with the dissolution of soft binaries. This study provides a different perspective to explore the MS bimodalities in young clusters and adds extra puzzles. A more comprehensive study combined with detailed simulations is needed in the future.

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