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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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Siyang Li, Alexei V. Filippenko, Arief Ahmad, Adam G. Riess, Stefano Casertano, Thomas G. Brink, Richard Anderson, Caroline D. Huang, Louise Breuval, Noriyuki M… 展开作者

Siyang Li, Alexei V. Filippenko, Arief Ahmad, Adam G. Riess, Stefano Casertano, Thomas G. Brink, Richard Anderson, Caroline D. Huang, Louise Breuval, Noriyuki Matsunaga, Gracelynn Jost, Yash Mehta, Elaina Sadler, Julian Shapiro

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.

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