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C-19恒星流的原始性质

The primordial nature of the C-19 stellar stream

University of Victoria(维多利亚大学);Nanjing University(南京大学);Key Laboratory of Modern Astronomy and Astrophysics, Nanjing University, Ministry of Education(南京大学现代天文与天体物理教育部重点实验室);Observatoire Astronomique de Strasbourg, CNRS, Université de Strasbourg(斯特拉斯堡天文台,法国国家科学研究中心,斯特拉斯堡大学);Max-Planck-Institut für Astronomie(马克斯·普朗克天文学研究所)
Kim A. Venn, Zhen Yuan, Nicolas F. Martin, Anya Dovgal, Daria Zaremba, Else Starkenburg, Felipe Gran, Christian R. Hayes, Vanessa Hill, Chiaki Kobayashi, Carmel… 展开作者

Kim A. Venn, Zhen Yuan, Nicolas F. Martin, Anya Dovgal, Daria Zaremba, Else Starkenburg, Felipe Gran, Christian R. Hayes, Vanessa Hill, Chiaki Kobayashi, Carmela Lardo, Alan W. McConnachie, Tadafumi Matsuno, Martin Montelius, Vinicius Placco, Federico Sestito, Anke Ardern-Arentsen, Guiseppina Battaglia, Piercarlo Bonifacio, Raymond Carlberg, Sebastien Fabbro, Morgan Fouesneau, Rodrigo Ibata, Pascale Jablonka, Jaclyn Jensen, Georges Kordopatis, Madelyn McKenzie, Julio F. Navarro, John S. Pazder, Ruben Sanchez-Janssen, Simon T. E. Smith, Akshara Viswanathan, Sara Vitali, Long Wang, Zhen Wang

AI总结:

C-19恒星流通过高分辨率光谱分析揭示其早期快速恒星形成及低金属含量,为研究早期宇宙恒星形成提供关键数据。

摘要:

恒星流是被银河系潮汐力拉伸而出的致密恒星系统的残余,为研究数十亿年前形成的恒星群体提供了一种独特的方式。特别值得注意的恒星流是C-19,它是目前已知金属含量最低的恒星流,其金属含量低于太阳的千分之一。C-19的性质尚不明确,其特征既类似于星团又类似于超暗矮星系,但无论哪种情况,其极低的金属含量都表明恒星形成发生在大爆炸后不到10亿年。在这里,我们基于14颗成员恒星的高分辨率光谱化学丰度,首次对C-19的性质进行了详细研究。这些结果表明,C-19在早期、快速且繁盛的恒星形成事件中形成,其中由大质量恒星产生的元素产生了轻微的不均匀混合。除此之外,没有证据显示后续的恒星形成、多星群体或化学演化。尽管C-19目前在银河系晕中被破坏,但它为了解早期宇宙中恒星形成和化学演化的细节提供了罕见且互补的窗口,对于与当前高红移宇宙中原始恒星形成研究的比较具有理想条件。

英文摘要:

Stellar streams, remnants of compact star systems stretched out by the tidal forces of the Milky Way, offer a unique way to study stellar populations that formed billions of years ago. A particularly unique stream is C-19, the most metal-poor stellar stream known at less than a thousandth of the Sun's metallicity. The nature of C-19 is not yet clear, with properties that resemble both star clusters and ultra faint dwarf galaxies, yet in either case its extremely low metallicity indicates very early star formation, <1 Gyr after the Big Bang. Here, we present the first detailed study on the nature of C-19 based on the chemical abundances of 14 member stars from high-resolution spectroscopy. These reveal that C-19 formed stars in an early, rapid, and prolific star formation event, with mild inhomogeneous mixing of elements produced in massive stars. There is otherwise no evidence for subsequent star formation, multiple stellar populations, nor chemical evolution. Although C-19 is currently disrupted in the Milky Way halo, it offers a rare and complementary window into the details of star formation and chemical evolution in the early universe, ideal for comparisons with current studies of primordial star formation in the high-redshift universe.

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