CHASE 光谱巡天 I:测量颜色选择的 J 区渐近巨星支距离指示器中的污染
CHASE Spectral Survey I: Measuring Contamination in the Color-selected J-region Asymptotic Giant Branch Distance Indicator
- University of California, Berkeley(加州大学伯克利分校)
- The University of Tokyo(东京大学)
- National Astronomical Observatory of Japan(日本国立天文台)
- Space Telescope Science Institute(太空望远镜科学研究所)
- Johns Hopkins University(约翰斯·霍普金斯大学)
- Georg-August-Universität Göttingen(哥廷根大学)
- Center for Astrophysics — Harvard & Smithsonian(哈佛-史密森尼天体物理中心)
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AI总结:
该研究通过 CHASE 光谱巡天评估 JAGB 距离指示器的测光选择纯度,发现 76% 的氧丰星污染,即使在峰值附近仍达 71%,可能解释文献中的系统差异。
AI中文摘要:
用于距离测量的 J 区渐近巨星支(JAGB)方法利用富碳 AGB 星近乎均匀的光度作为标准烛光。其应用基于一个假设但很少被检验的前提:JAGB 颜色-星等选择框内的恒星主要是富碳 AGB 星。我们利用名为 CHASE(碳星、哈勃张力与 JAGB 星族光谱探索)的光学光谱巡天(约 3590-7150 埃),使用利克天文台的 Shane 3 米望远镜,研究了银河系中测光选择纯度。这些恒星使用分子带头阶跃指数进行分类,该指数恢复了 100% 的已知分类。我们报告了 76 颗恒星的观测结果(其中 54 颗位于标准 JAGB 选择框内,1.5 < J - K < 2.0 星等),发现 54 颗恒星中只有 13 颗是富碳的,在盲目测光选择下,氧丰恒星污染率为 76±6%。即使在 JAGB 峰值本身的 ±0.4 星等范围内,这种污染仍然很高(71%),表明污染并不局限于选择框的边缘。这种不均匀性可能解释了近期文献发现的 0.1-0.2 星等的场间和方法学差异,这些差异目前主导了其系统误差预算。这些变化可能部分由包含不同光谱类型、因而具有不同平均星等的不均匀恒星种群引起。
英文摘要:
The J-region asymptotic giant branch (JAGB) method for distance measurements uses the near uniform luminosity of carbon-rich AGB stars as a standard candle. Its application rests on an assumed but rarely examined premise: the stars contained in the JAGB color-magnitude selection box are primarily carbon-rich AGB stars. We investigate the purity of the photometric selection in the Milky Way with an optical spectroscopic survey (~3590-7150 $\mathring{A}$) called CHASE (Carbon stars, Hubble tension, And Spectroscopic Exploration of JAGB populations) using the Shane 3 m telescope at Lick Observatory. These stars are classified using molecular bandhead step indices, which recover 100% of known classifications. We report the observations of 76 stars (54 within the standard JAGB selection box of 1.5 < J - K < 2.0 mag) and find only 13 of 54 stars are carbon-rich, a 76$\pm$6 oxygen-rich contamination under blind photometric selection. This contamination remains high (71%) even within $\pm$0.4 mag of the JAGB peak itself, showing it is not confined to the edges of the selection box. This inhomogeneity may explain why recent literature find field-to-field and methodological variations of 0.1-0.2 mag that now dominate its systematic error budget. These variations could be caused, in part, by inhomogeneous stellar populations that consist of differing spectral types, and hence differing mean magnitudes.