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对Milky Way中九个外晕球状星团周围恒星结构的搜寻

A search for stellar structures around nine outer halo globular clusters in the Milky Way

Shumeng Zhang, Dougal Mackey, Gary Da Costa

摘要:

我们使用暗能量照相机的深度成像来探索银河系外晕中九个球状星团的外围区域。除了Whiting 1和NGC 7492,它们被投射到人马座流,我们没有看到邻近的恒星星族的证据表明这些星团中的任何一个与来自被摧毁的宿主矮星的相干潮汐碎片有关。在我们的样本中,我们也没有发现任何星团周围存在潮汐尾的证据;然而,NGC 1904和6981似乎都拥有外部信封。受到最近一系列基于盖亚的发现的启发,我们编译了一个具有强大的潮汐结构检测的集群样本,并搜索与轨道特性的相关性。虽然我们观察到具有潮汐尾的星系团通常处于中等或非常偏心的轨道上,这些轨道高度倾斜于银河平面,并且经常逆行,但这些既不是潮汐外结构形成的必要条件,也不是充分条件。许多具有潮汐尾的天体似乎是吸积的,这使我们推测,这种缺乏一致性的现象可能源于银河系球状星团系统的非均匀动力学历史。最后,我们注意到,在地面成像中检测到的具有突出恒星包络的星团(如NGC 1851和7089)现在都被认为是盖亚拥有长潮汐尾-实验证实,扩展包络的存在表明潮汐侵蚀。

英文摘要:

We use deep imaging from the Dark Energy Camera to explore the peripheral regions of nine globular clusters in the outer halo of the Milky Way. Apart from Whiting 1 and NGC 7492, which are projected against the Sagittarius stream, we see no evidence for adjacent stellar populations to indicate any of these clusters is associated with coherent tidal debris from a destroyed host dwarf. We also find no evidence for tidal tails around any of the clusters in our sample; however, both NGC 1904 and 6981 appear to possess outer envelopes. Motivated by a slew of recent Gaia-based discoveries, we compile a sample of clusters with robust detections of extra-tidal structure, and search for correlations with orbital properties. While we observe that clusters with tidal tails are typically on moderately or very eccentric orbits that are highly inclined to the Galactic plane and often retrograde, these are neither necessary nor sufficient conditions for the formation of extra-tidal structure. That many objects with tidal tails appear to be accreted leads us to speculate that this lack of consistency may stem from the inhomogeneous dynamical history of the Milky Way globular cluster system. Finally, we note that clusters with prominent stellar envelopes detected in ground-based imaging (such as NGC 1851 and 7089) are now all known from Gaia to possess long tidal tails -- experimental confirmation that the presence of an extended envelope is indicative of tidal erosion.

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