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它们来自哪里?球状星团逃逸星的识别

Where do they come from? Identification of globular cluster escaped stars

Cheng Xu, Baitian Tang, Chengyuan Li, José G. Fernández-Trincado, Jing Zhong, Long Wang, Hao Tian, Yang Huang

AI总结:

本文通过动力学连接和潮汐外候选体识别,利用LAMOST数据和Gaia数据,确定了球状星团逃逸星的起源,并识别出大量候选体,为研究星团演化提供了目标。

摘要:

球状星团(GCs)与我们的银河系一样古老,当它们穿越银河系(MW)时,会不断将成员星流失到场星中。这些球状星团逃逸星(或逃逸体)被认为对银河系晕有显著贡献。如果一颗恒星在很久以前离开了宿主球状星团,化学指纹,例如氮元素丰度增强,可能揭示其起源。在本工作中,我们旨在建立近期由LAMOST识别的富氮场星与现有银河系球状星团之间的动力学联系。通过构建完整的行动分布,并结合金属丰度,我们为15颗富氮场星找到了29个可能的球状星团前身。特别地,其中一些可能与银河系吸积事件有关。另一方面,如果一颗恒星最近通过潮汐蒸发离开其宿主球状星团,它仍保持该星团的运动学特性。在此,我们基于其空间位置、自行(PMs)及其在颜色-星等图(CMDs)上的位置来识别潮汐外候选体。我们成功地在六个与Gaia-Enceladus(GE)相关的球状星团(即NGC 1851、NGC 1904、NGC 6205、NGC 6341、NGC 6779、NGC 7089)附近识别出超过1600个潮汐外候选体。潮汐外候选体的密度图被证实是寻找潮汐外结构的有效方法。在内边界相对方向可能出现的两个密度峰是长恒星流存在的良好指示。在具有光谱视向速度和金属丰度的95个潮汐外候选体中,其中54个被确认为球状星团逃逸星,因为它们与宿主球状星团具有相似的性质。这些潮汐外候选体是后续光谱观测的理想目标,因为这将极大地提高科学产出。一旦获得统计上显著数量的光谱视向速度和金属丰度数据,球状星团的动力学演化(例如质量损失、旋转)就可以被仔细研究。

英文摘要:

Globular clusters (GCs), as old as our Galaxy, constantly lose their members to the field as they cross through the Milky Way (MW). These GC escaped stars (or escapees) are suggested to contribute significantly to the MW halo. If a star has left the host GC a long time ago, chemical finger prints, e.g., N enrichment, may reveal its origin. In this work, we aim to establish dynamical connections between N-rich field stars recently identified by LAMOST and the existing MW GCs. By constructing the full action distribution, and combining with metallicity, we found 29 potential GC progenitors for 15 N-rich field stars. Particularly, some of them may be related to MW accretion events. On the other hand, if a star recently left its host GC via tidal evaporation, it still maintain the kinematic properties of the cluster. Here we identify extra-tidal candidates based on their spatial locations, proper motions (PMs), and their position on color-magnitude-diagrams (CMDs). We successfully identified more than 1600 extra-tidal candidates in the vicinity of six Gaia-Enceladus (GE)-related GCs (i.e., NGC 1851, NGC 1904, NGC 6205, NGC 6341, NGC 6779, NGC 7089). The density map of the extra-tidal candidates is confirmed to be an efficient way to find extra-tidal structures. The possible two density peaks at opposite directions of the inner boundary is a good indicator for long stellar stream. Among 95 extra-tidal candidates with spectroscopic radial velocities and metallicity, 54 of them are confirmed to be GC escaped stars, as they share similar properties as host GCs. These extra-tidal candidates are ideal targets for follow-up spectroscopic observation, as it greatly improves the scientific outcome. Once statistically significant number of spectroscopic radial velocities and metallicities are available, the GC dynamical evolution (e.g., mass loss, rotation) can be carefully investigated.

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