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利用红外光谱能量分布对渐近巨星分支恒星的距离估计方法

Distance estimate method for Asymptotic Giant Branch stars using Infrared Spectral Energy Distributions

Rajorshi Bhattacharya, Brandon M. Medina, Ylva M. Pihlström, Loránt O. Sjouwerman, Megan O. Lewis, Raghvendra Sahai, Michael C. Stroh, Luis Henry Quiroga-Nuñez,… 展开作者

Rajorshi Bhattacharya, Brandon M. Medina, Ylva M. Pihlström, Loránt O. Sjouwerman, Megan O. Lewis, Raghvendra Sahai, Michael C. Stroh, Luis Henry Quiroga-Nuñez, Huib Jan van Langevelde, Mark J Claussen, Rachel Weller

AI总结:

本文提出利用近中红外光谱能量分布颜色匹配与距离校准模板来估计银河系AGB恒星距离的方法,经VLBI和Gaia视差验证后应用于BAaDE巡天近1.5万颗恒星,成功揭示银河系棒状结构。

摘要:

我们提出了一种利用近红外和中红外光谱能量分布(SEDs)来估计银河系中渐近巨星分支(AGB)恒星距离的方法。通过假设一组给定的源性质(初始质量、恒星温度、化学组成和演化阶段)会提供典型的SED形状和亮度,将源与经过距离校准的模板进行颜色匹配,然后进行缩放以提取距离。该方法通过将所得距离与甚长基线干涉测量或Gaia视差测量得到的距离估计进行比较来检验,在两种情况下均显示出强相关性。通过构建一个可能靠近银河系中心的源样本,从而具有共同的典型距离用于模板校准,形成了额外的模板。这些初步结果为属于核球不对称性与动力学演化(BAaDE)巡天的近15,000颗银河系AGB恒星提供了统计距离估计,典型距离误差为$\pm 35$%。利用这些统计距离,构建了由AGB示踪的中等年龄恒星群体的分布图,可以辨别出清晰的棒状结构,与先前报道的相对于GC-太阳方向向量30$^\circ$的倾角一致。这些结果推动了对AGB群体的更深入研究,以揭示整个银河系中等年龄恒星的分布,并确定AGB群体光度和质量损失率分布的统计性质。

英文摘要:

We present a method to estimate distances to Asymptotic Giant Branch (AGB) stars in the Galaxy, using spectral energy distributions (SEDs) in the near- and mid-infrared. By assuming that a given set of source properties (initial mass, stellar temperature, composition, and evolutionary stage) will provide a typical SED shape and brightness, sources are color-matched to a distance-calibrated template and thereafter scaled to extract the distance. The method is tested by comparing the distances obtained to those estimated from Very Long Baseline Interferometry or Gaia parallax measurements, yielding a strong correlation in both cases. Additional templates are formed by constructing a source sample likely to be close to the Galactic center, and thus with a common, typical distance for calibration of the templates. These first results provide statistical distance estimates to a set of almost 15,000 Milky Way AGB stars belonging to the Bulge Asymmetries and Dynamical Evolution (BAaDE) survey, with typical distance errors of $\pm 35$%. With these statistical distances a map of the intermediate-age population of stars traced by AGBs is formed, and a clear bar structure can be discerned, consistent with the previously reported inclination angle of 30$^\circ$ to the GC-Sun direction vector. These results motivate deeper studies of the AGB population to tease out the intermediate-age stellar distribution throughout the Galaxy, as well as determining statistical properties of the AGB population luminosity and mass-loss rate distributions.

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