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疏散星团M37中化学扩散的特征

Signature of a chemical spread in the open cluster M37

M. Griggio, M. Salaris, S. Cassisi, A. Pietrinferni, L. R. Bedin

摘要:

最近盖亚对疏散星团M37的测光揭示了存在一个扩展的主序关闭--就像在年龄小于2 Gyr的麦哲伦星团中一样--以及一个主序,它的颜色扩展超过了测光误差的预期,其量值远低于扩展关闭的区域,在这种情况下,年龄差异和轮调率(解释长期关闭现象的候选因素)都不会起作用。此外,即使是未解析的双星的贡献也不能完全解释观测到的增宽。我们利用合成的恒星星族和微分色图,使用盖亚和斯隆滤波器的组合,调查了这种扩大背后的原因。从我们的分析中,我们得出结论,在盖亚颜色星等图中观察到的颜色分布可以通过金属丰度分布Δ [Fe/H] ~ 0.15加上横跨整个范围Δ E(B-V)~ 0.06的星系团表面的差异变红的组合来再现,或者初始氦质量分数Δ Y ~ 0.10的扩展加上红化Δ E(B-V)~ 0.03的较小范围。需要对相当大的星团恒星样本进行高分辨率的微分丰度测定,以确认或排除金属丰度分布的存在。我们的研究结果提出了一种可能性,即单个疏散星团,如球状星团和大质量星团,宿主恒星出生时具有不同的初始化学成分。

英文摘要:

Recent Gaia photometry of the open cluster M37 have disclosed the existence of an extended main-sequence turn off -- like in Magellanic clusters younger than about 2 Gyr -- and a main sequence that is broadened in colour beyond what is expected from the photometric errors, at magnitudes well below the region of the extended turn off, where neither age differences nor rotation rates (the candidates to explain the extended turn off phenomenon) are expected to play a role. Moreover, not even the contribution of unresolved binaries can fully explain the observed broadening. We investigated the reasons behind this broadening by making use of synthetic stellar populations and differential colour-colour diagrams using a combination of Gaia and Sloan filters. From our analysis we have concluded that the observed colour spread in the Gaia colour-magnitude diagram can be reproduced by a combination of either a metallicity spread Delta[Fe/H] ~ 0.15 plus a differential reddening across the face of the cluster spanning a total range DeltaE (B - V) ~ 0.06, or a spread of the initial helium mass fraction DeltaY ~ 0.10 plus a smaller range of reddening DeltaE (B - V) ~ 0.03. High-resolution differential abundance determinations of a sizeable sample of cluster stars are necessary to confirm or exclude the presence of a metal abundance spread. Our results raise the possibility that also individual open clusters, like globular clusters and massive star clusters, host stars born with different initial chemical compositions.

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