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用贝叶斯推断探测球状星团潮汐扩展:I.用盖亚EDR3分析$ω$半人马座

Detecting Globular Cluster Tidal Extensions with Bayesian Inference: I. Analysis of $ω$ Centauri with Gaia EDR3

Pete B. Kuzma, Annette M. N. Ferguson, Jorge Peñarrubia

摘要:

球状星团(GC)的外围区域是非常具有挑战性的研究,由于其低表面亮度的性质和银河系污染物的人口沿其视线的主导地位。我们已经开发了一个概率的方法来解决这个问题,通过利用混合物模型在空间和自行空间分别模拟集群,潮外和污染物恒星星族。我们证明了我们的方法的有效性,通过应用到盖亚EDR3测光和天体测量的方向NGC 5139($ω$岑),一个极具挑战性的目标,由于其银河纬度($b\approx 15^{\circ}$)和低自行对比度与周围的领域。我们恢复壮观的潮汐延伸,跨越$10^{\circ}$的天空探索这里,看到在早期的工作和量化的恒星计数配置文件和椭圆率的系统到一个集群为中心的半径$4^{\circ}$。我们发现,RR天琴座和蓝色的水平分支恒星符合属于$ω$岑发现在潮汐尾,并计算出这些扩展包含至少$\approx 0.1$ %的系统中的总恒星质量。我们的高概率成员为$ω$ Cen的未来光谱研究提供了前所未有的半径。

英文摘要:

The peripheral regions of globular clusters (GCs) are extremely challenging to study due to their low surface brightness nature and the dominance of Milky Way contaminant populations along their sightlines. We have developed a probabilistic approach to this problem through utilising a mixture model in spatial and proper motion space which separately models the cluster, extra-tidal and contaminant stellar populations. We demonstrate the efficacy of our method through application to Gaia EDR3 photometry and astrometry in the direction of NGC 5139 ($ω$ Cen), a highly challenging target on account of its Galactic latitude ($b\approx 15^{\circ}$) and low proper motion contrast with the surrounding field. We recover the spectacular tidal extensions, spanning the $10^{\circ}$ on the sky explored here, seen in earlier work and quantify the star count profile and ellipticity of the system out to a cluster-centric radius of $4^{\circ}$. We show that both RR Lyrae and blue horizontal branch stars consistent with belonging to $ω$ Cen are found in the tidal tails, and calculate that these extensions contain at least $\approx 0.1$ per cent of the total stellar mass in the system. Our high probability members provide prime targets for future spectroscopic studies of $ω$ Cen out to unprecedented radii.

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