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投射到小麦哲伦星云的五个中等年龄星团的年龄和金属丰度

Ages and metallicities of five intermediate-age star clusters projected towards the Small Magellanic Cloud

A. E. Piatti, J. F. C. Santos, J. J. Claria, E. Bica, A. Sarajedini, D. Geisler

摘要:

本文首次给出了L32、L38、K28(L43)、K44(L 68)和L116等投射到小麦哲伦云(SMC)外围的星团的色星等图。测光是在华盛顿系统$C$和$T_1$过滤器中进行的,允许通过红巨星团块和主序转折点之间的星等差以及红巨星分支轨迹的金属丰度来确定年龄。这些星系团的年龄在2-6 Gyr之间,金属丰度在$-1.65<$ [Fe/H] $<-1.10$之间,增加了SMC中中等年龄星系团的样本。L116,投影到SMC上的最外层星团,是一个前景星团,比大麦云云离我们更近。我们的研究结果,结合文献中的其他集群,显示时代的突然化学富集的年龄-金属丰度平面,这有利于一个爆裂的恒星形成的历史,而不是一个连续的SMC。

英文摘要:

Colour-magnitude diagrams are presented for the first time for L32, L38, K28 (L43), K44 (L68) and L116, which are clusters projected onto the outer parts of the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC). The photometry was carried out in the Washington system $C$ and $T_1$ filters allowing the determination of ages by means of the magnitude difference between the red giant clump and the main sequence turnoff, and metallicities from the red giant branch locus. The clusters have ages in the range 2-6 Gyr, and metallicities between $-1.65<$ [Fe/H] $<-1.10$, increasing the sample of intermediate-age clusters in the SMC. L116, the outermost cluster projected onto the SMC, is a foreground cluster, and somewhat closer to us than the Large Magellanic Cloud. Our results, combined with those for other clusters in the literature, show epochs of sudden chemical enrichment in the age-metallicity plane, which favour a bursting star formation history as opposede to a continuous one for the SMC.

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