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利用中分辨率光谱巡天测量矮星系本征丰度弥散:校准APOGEE丰度误差

Measuring Dwarf Galaxy Intrinsic Abundance Scatter with Mid-resolution Spectroscopic Surveys: Calibrating APOGEE Abundance Errors

Jennifer Mead, Melissa Ness, Eric Andersson, Emily J. Griffith, Danny Horta

AI总结:

本文提出一种利用中分辨率APOGEE巡天数据测量矮星系和球状星团本征丰度弥散的方法,通过校准丰度误差,揭示了系统内的丰度弥散幅度并为其恒星形成历史提供了约束。

摘要:

第一代恒星将其化学指纹留在了银河系及其周围矮星系的贫金属恒星上。虽然瞬时且均匀的增丰意味着同源恒星群应具有相同的元素丰度,但在固定[Fe/H]下观察到了小幅度的丰度弥散。本征丰度弥散的测量是在小型高分辨率光谱数据集上进行的,其中测量不确定度小于该弥散。在本研究中,我们提出了一种利用误差较大的中分辨率巡天数据来进行此测量的方法。使用APOGEE DR17,我们计算了银河系周围6个经典矮星系中333颗贫金属恒星,以及19个球状星团中1604颗恒星的Al、O、Mg、Si、Ti、Ni和Mn相对于Fe的本征弥散。我们首先使用高保真度的晕族数据集,在信噪比和[Fe/H]的区间内校准了报告的丰度误差。然后,我们将这些校准后的误差应用于APOGEE数据,发现矮星系中存在小幅度的平均本征丰度弥散,范围在0.032 - 0.14 dex之间,中位数为0.043 dex。对于球状星团,我们发现本征弥散范围在0.018 - 0.21 dex之间,其中Al和O的弥散特别高。我们对本征丰度弥散的测量为这些系统中的本征弥散设定了重要的上限,并对它们潜在的恒星形成历史和混合施加了约束,我们可以通过模拟来解释这些约束。

英文摘要:

The first generations of stars left their chemical fingerprints on metal-poor stars in the Milky Way and its surrounding dwarf galaxies. While instantaneous and homogeneous enrichment implies that groups of co-natal stars should have the same element abundances, small amplitudes of abundance scatter are seen at fixed [Fe/H]. Measurements of intrinsic abundance scatter have been made with small, high-resolution spectroscopic datasets where measurement uncertainty is small compared to this scatter. In this work, we present a method to use mid-resolution survey data, which has larger errors, to make this measurement. Using APOGEE DR17, we calculate the intrinsic scatter of Al, O, Mg, Si, Ti, Ni, and Mn relative to Fe for 333 metal-poor stars across 6 classical dwarf galaxies around the Milky Way, and 1604 stars across 19 globular clusters. We first calibrate the reported abundance errors in bins of signal-to-noise and [Fe/H] using a high-fidelity halo dataset. We then apply these calibrated errors to the APOGEE data, and find small amplitudes of average intrinsic abundance scatter in dwarf galaxies ranging from 0.032 - 0.14 dex with a median value of 0.043 dex. For the globular clusters, we find intrinsic scatters ranging from 0.018 - 0.21 dex, with particularly high scatter for Al and O. Our measurements of intrinsic abundance scatter place important upper limits on the intrinsic scatter in these systems, as well as constraints on their underlying star formation history and mixing, that we can look to simulations to interpret.

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