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Proper motion of Galactic globular cluster NGC 104

  • Kim, Eun-Hyeuk;Kim, Min-Sun
    • 천문학회보
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    • 제35권2호
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    • pp.84.1-84.1
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    • 2010
  • Globular clusters (GCs) are known to be one of the oldest objects in the Milky Way. Therefore the dynamical informations of GCs are very important to understand the formation and evolution of our Galaxy. Motion of GCs in the halo of Galaxy can be traced by radial velocities of individual stars and proper motions of GCs. Measuring the radial velocities of stars in GCs has been challenging for decades because the brightness of stars (even for the brightest stars) in GCs are too faint (V>14) to measure the radial velocities. The available large telescopes (D>4m) enable us to observe the spectra of stars in the red giant branch of GCs, and it is now more plausible to measure the radial velocities of stars in GCs. On the contrary it is still very difficult to measure the sky-projected two-dimensional motion of GCs in Galaxy even with the large telescopes because the distance to GCs is quite large (~10kpc) compared to the spatial resolution of present-day large ground-based telescopes. Instruments on-board Hubble Space Telescope are ideal to study the proper motion of GCs thanks to their extremely high spatial resolution (~0.05arcsec). We report a study of proper motion of NGC 104, one of the most metal-rich Milky Way GCs, based-on archival images of NGC 104 observed using HST/ACS. Using the stars in Small Magellanic Cloud as reference coordinate, we are able to measure the proper motions of individual stars in NGC 104 with a high precision. We discuss the internal dynamics of stars in NGC 104 by comparing proper motion results based-on shorter (<1yr) and longer (~7yrs) time durations.

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우리은하 구상성단들의 역학적 세부구조 III. NGC 7006 (DYNAMICAL SUBSTRUCTURES OF GALACTIC GLOBULAR CLUSTERS III. NGC 7006)

  • 이종환;손영종
    • Journal of Astronomy and Space Sciences
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    • 제22권4호
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    • pp.363-376
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    • 2005
  • 구상성단 NGC 7006의 거성종족에 따른 성단 중심부의 역학적 세부구조 변화를 알아보기 위해서 VGC 7006의 BV CCD영상에 대해 점광원 함수 측광을 실시하여 4개의 거성종족을 분류한 후 각 종족을 차례대로 제거하면서 ellipse맞추기를 실시하여 성단의 중심으로부터 반경에 따른 타원율과 위치각의 변화를 얻었다. 타원율과 위치각의 전체적인 변화를 살펴보면, $r_{eff}<3r_h$ 영역에서 타원율은 $0.02\~0.06$의 변화를 보이며 위치각의 경우는 $-10^{\circ}\~+90^{\circ}$의 변화를 보인다. 거성종족의 제거에 따른 NGC 7006의 중심부 타원율과 위치각의 변화를 보면, $r_{eff}인 영역에서 밝은 거성종족을 제거했을 경우 타원율과 위치각의 변화가 각각 $-0.05\~+0.05,-20^{\circ}\~+20^{\circ}$로 나타났으며, 수평계열을 제거했을 경우에는 각각 $-0.05\~+0.025,-25^{\circ}\~+20^{\circ}$로 나타나는 것으로부터 중심부에서는 밝은 거성종족과 수평계열에 의한 영향이 가장 크다는 것을 유추할 수 있다. 또한, 어두운 거성종족에 의한 중심부의 타원율과 위치각의 변화도 확인 할 수 있었던 반면 준거성종족에 의해서는 크게 영향을 받지 않는 것을 확인 할 수 있었다.

EFFECT OF SECOND GENERATION POPULATIONS ON THE INTEGRATED COLOR OF METAL-RICH GLOBULAR CLUSTERS IN EARLY-TYPE GALAXIES

  • 정철;이상윤;윤석진;이영욱
    • 천문학회보
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    • 제38권1호
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    • pp.30.2-30.2
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    • 2013
  • The mean color of globular cluster (GCs) systems in early-type galaxies (ETGs) is, in general, bluer than the integrated color of field stars in their host galaxies. Recently, Goudfrooij & Kruijssen (2013) reported that even red GCs in the ETGs show bluer colors than their host field stars and suggested the different initial mass function (IMF) for red GCs and field stars to explain the observed offset in color. Here we suggest an alternative scenario that explains the observed color offsets between red GCs in ETGs and the field stars in the parent galaxies without invoking to the variation of the IMF. We find that the inclusion of second-generation (SG) helium-enhanced populations in the model fully explains the observed color offset between red GCs and field stars in the host galaxies. We have also tested the effect of the IMF slope on our models, but the effect is relatively small compared to the effect of the SG population. Our new model suggests that, in order to explain far-UV strong metal-rich GCs in M87 and the observed color offset between metal-rich GCs and the field stars in ETGs simultaneously, the inclusion of the SG populations with enhanced helium abundance is a more natural solution than the model that only adopted variations in the IMF.

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THEORETICAL STUDY ON OBSERVED COLOR-MAGNITUDE DIAGRAMS

  • Lee, See-Woo
    • 천문학회지
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    • 제12권1호
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    • pp.41-70
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    • 1979
  • From $B\ddot{o}hm$-Vitense's atmospheric model calculations, the relations, [$T_e$, (B-V)] and [B.C, (B-V)] with respect to heavy element abundance were obtained. Using these relations and evolutionary model calculations of Rood, and Sweigart and Gross, analytic expressions for some physical parameters relating to the C-M diagrams of globular clusters were derived, and they were applied to 21 globular clusters with observed transition periods of RR Lyrae variables. More than 20 different parameters were examined for each globular cluster. The derived ranges of some basic parameters are as follows; $Y=0.21{\sim}0.33,\;Z=1.5{\times}10^{-4}{\sim}4.5{\times}10^{-3},\;age,\;t=9.5{\sim}19{\times}10^9$ years, mass for red giants, $m_{RG}=0.74m_{\odot}{\sim}0.91m_{\odot}$, mass for RR Lyrae stars, $m_{RR}=0.59m_{\odot}{\sim}0.75m_{\odot}$, the visual magnitude difference between the turnoff point and the horizontal branch (HB), ${\Delta}V_{to}=3.1{\sim}3.4(<{\Delta}V_{to}>=3.32)$, the color of the blue edge of RR Lyrae gap, $(B-V)_{BE}=0.17{\sim}0.21=(<(B-V)_{BE}>=0.18),\;[\frac{m}{L}]_{RR}=-1.7{\sim}-1.9$, mass difference of $m_{RR}$ relative to $m_{RG},(m_{RG}-m_{RR})/m_{RG}=0.0{\sim}0.39$. It was found that the ranges of derived parameters agree reasonably well with the observed ones and those estimated by others. Some important results obtained herein can be summarized as follows; (i) There are considerable variations in the initial helium abundance and in age of globular clusters. (ii) The radial gradient of heavy element abundance does exist for globular clusters as shown by Janes for field stars and open clusters. (iii) The helium abundance seems to have been increased with age by massive star evolution after a considerable amount (Y>0.2) of helium had been attained by the Big-Bang nucleosynthesis, but there is not seen a radial gradient of helium abundance. (iv) A considerable amount of heavy elements ($Z{\sim}10{-3}$) might have been formed in the inner halo ($r_{GC}$<10 kpc) from the earliest galactic co1lapse, and then the heavy element abundance has been slowly enriched towards the galactic center and disk, establishing the radial gradient of heavy element abundance. (v) The final galactic disk formation might have taken much longer by about a half of the galactic age than the halo formation, supporting a slow, inhomogeneous co1lapse model of Larson. (vi) Of the three principal parameters controlling the morphology of C-M diagrams, it was found that the first parameter is heavy clement abundance, the second age and the third helium abundance. (vii) The globular clusters can be divided into three different groups, AI, BI and CII according to Z, Y an d age as well as Dickens' HB types. BI group clusters of HB types 4 and 5 like M 3 and NGC 7006 are the oldest and have the lowest helium abundance of the three groups. And also they appear in the inner halo. On the other hand, the youngest AI clusters have the highest Z and Y, and appear in the innermost halo region and in the disk. (viii) From the result of the clean separations of the clusters into three groups, a three dimensional classification with three parameters, Z, Y and age is prsented. (ix) The anomalous C-M diagrams can be expalined in terms of the three principal parameters. That is, the anomaly of NGC 362 and NGC 7006 is accounted for by the smaller age of the order of $1{\sim}2{\times}10^9$ years rather than by the helium abundance difference, compared with M 3. (x) The difference in two Oosterhoff types I and II can be explained in terms of the mean mass difference of RR Lyrae variables rather than in terms of the helium abundance difference as suggested by Stobie. The mean mass of the variables in Oosterhoff type I clusters is smaller by $0.074m_{\odot}$ which is exactly consistent with Rood's estimate. Since it was found that the mean mass of RR Lyrae stars increases with decreasing Z, the two Oosterhoff types can be explained substantially by the metal abundance difference; the type II has Z<$3.4{\times}10^{-4}$, and the type I has higher Z than the type II.

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Search for Ultra-faint Dwarfs in the Halo of M60, Giant Elliptical Galaxy in Virgo

  • LEE, JEONG HWAN;LEE, MYUNG GYOON;JANG, IN SUNG
    • 천문학회보
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    • 제41권2호
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    • pp.63.2-63.2
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    • 2016
  • One of the well-known problems in the lambda cold dark matter (${\Lambda}CDM$) models is a missing satellite problem. The slope of the mass function of low mass galaxies predicted by ${\Lambda}CDM$ models is much steeper than that based on the luminosity function of dwarf galaxies in the local universe. This implies that the model prediction is an overestimate of low mass galaxies, or that the current census of dwarf galaxies in the local universe may be an underestimate of dwarf galaxies. Previous studies of galaxy luminosity functions to address this problem are based mostly on the sample of galaxies brighter than Mv ~ -10 in the nearby galaxies. In this study we try to search for ultra-faint galaxies (UFDs), which are much fainter than those in the previous studies. We use multi-field HST ACS images of M60 in the archive. M60 is a giant elliptical galaxy located in the east part of the Virgo cluster, and hosts a large population of globular clusters and UCDs. Little is known about the dwarf galaxies in this galaxy. UFDs are much fainter, much smaller, and have lower surface brightness than normal dwarf galaxies so HST images of massive galaxies are an ideal resource. We present preliminary results of this search.

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FORMATION OF THE MILKY WAY

  • HESSER J. E.;STETSON P. B.;HARRISM W. E.;BOLTE M.;SMECKER-HANE T. A.;VANDENBERG D. A.;BELL R. A.;BOND H. E.;BERGH S. VAN DEN;MCCLURE R. D.;FAHLMAN G. G.;RICHER H. B.
    • 천문학회지
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    • 제29권spc1호
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    • pp.111-118
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    • 1996
  • We review observational evidence bearing on the formation of a prototypical large spiral galaxy, the Milky Way. New ground- and space-based studies of globular star clusters and dwarf spheroidal galaxies provide a wealth of information to constrain theories of galaxy formation. It appears likely that the Milky Way formed by an combination of rapid, dissipative collapse and mergers, but the relative contributions of these two mechanisms remain controversial. New evidence, however, indicates that initial star and star cluster formation occurred simultaneously over a volume that presently extends to twice the distance of the Magellanic Clouds.

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Surface Brightness Fluctuation of Normal and Helium-enhanced Simple Stellar Populations

  • Chung, Chul;Yoon, Suk-Jin;Cho, Hyejeon;Lee, Sang-Yoon;Lee, Young-Wook
    • 천문학회보
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    • 제45권1호
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    • pp.31.3-32
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    • 2020
  • The surface brightness fluctuation (SBF) is one of the most crucial distance indicators for unresolved stellar systems at large distances. Here, we present an evolutionary population synthesis model of the surface brightness fluctuation (SBF) for normal and He-enriched simple stellar populations (SSPs). Our SBF model for the normal-He population agrees well with other existing models, but the He-rich populations bring about a substantial change in the SBF of SSPs. Our normal-He SBF model well reproduces the observed SBFs of the Milky Way globular clusters, but the SBFs of early-type galaxies in the Virgo Cluster are placed between the normal-He and He-rich SBF models. We show that the SBF-based distance estimation would be affected by up to a 10-20% level in I- and near-IR bands at given colors. Finally, we propose that when combined with independent metallicity and age indicators such as Mg2 and H��, the UV and optical SBFs can readily detect underlying He-rich populations in unresolved stellar systems. Given the degree of the SBF variation resulting from the population difference, we suggest that the distance measurement before the proper in-depth analysis of stellar populations should be done with great caution.

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The Origin of the Type III Component in the Black Eye Galaxy M64

  • 강지수;김유정;이명균;장인성
    • 천문학회보
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    • 제46권1호
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    • pp.52.2-52.2
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    • 2021
  • The Black Eye Galaxy M64 is an intriguing spiral galaxy with a Type III disk break. To trace the origin of its Type III component, we present HST/ACS F606W/F814W photometry of resolved stars in the outer disk of M64 (2.5' < R < 6.5'). First, we discover a bright extended globular cluster (GC) M64-GC1 at R ~ 5.5', and find that it is an old metal-poor halo GC ([Fe/H] = -1.5 +/- 0.2). Second, we find that there are two distinct subpopulations of red giant branch stars (RGBs). One is an old metal-rich ([Fe/H] ~ -0.4) disk population, and the other is an old metal-poor halo population similar to the resolved stars in M64-GC1. The radial number density profile of the metal-rich RGB follows an exponential disk law, while that of the metal-poor RGB follows a de Vaucouleurs's low. From these results, we conclude that the origin of the Type III component in M64 is a halo, not a disk or a bulge. We will further discuss the results in regards to the formation and evolution of M64.

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우리은하 구상성단들의 역학적 세부구조 II. NGC 6934 (DYNAMICAL SUBSTRUCTURES OF GALACTIC GLOBULAR CLUSTERS II. NGC 6934)

  • 이종환;손영종;신민;강아람
    • Journal of Astronomy and Space Sciences
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    • 제21권4호
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    • pp.249-262
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    • 2004
  • 구상성단 NGC 6934의 밝은 거성 종족에 의한 중심부의 역학적 세부구조의 변화를 알아보기 위해서 NGC 6934의 BV 영상에 점광원 함수 측광과 표면측광을 실시하여, 성단 내 구성별들의 종족에 대한 성단 중심으로부터 타원률과 위치각의 변화를 얻었다. 타원률과 위치각의 전체적인 변화를 살펴보면 $r_{\eff}<3r_h$ 영역에서, 타원률은 $0.02{\sim}0.08$ 범위의 변화를 보이며, 위치각은 $-90^{\circ}{\sim}+90^{\circ}$ 범위에서 큰 변화 폭을 가지는 것으로 나타났다. 각 거성 종족의 제거에 따른 타원률과 위치각의 변화로부터, 성단의 $r_{\eff} 영역에서 가장 밝은 거성들(b-RGB)이 성단의 역학적 구조에 큰 영향을 미치고 있음을 알 수 있었다. 이 영역에서 b-RGB를 제외한 다른 거성 종족에 의한 타원률과 위치각의 변화는 밝은 거성 종족에 의한 변화에 비해 작게 나타났으며, 단, 위치각의 경우 어두운 거성(f-RGB)에 의한 역학적 세부구조 변화를 볼 수 있었다. $r_h영역에서는 수평계열 종족(RHB, BHB)과, f-RGB에 의한 $r_{eff}{\sim}60\;arcsec$ 근처의 타원률 및 위치각의 변화를 확인 하였다.

여름어리표범나비(Mellicta ambigua (Menetries))의 생태적 특성에 관한 보고 (Reports on bionomical characteristics of Mellicta ambigua)

  • 김세권;남경필;김남이;배경신;최영철;이상현
    • 한국잠사곤충학회지
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    • 제52권2호
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    • pp.110-116
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    • 2014
  • 본 연구에서는 최근 개체수가 급격히 감소하고 있는 여름어리표범나비의 생태를 복원하기 위한 기초자료를 마련하고자 서식지에서의 생태를 확인하였으며, 인공사육을 통해 생태적 특성을 구명하고자 하였다. 여름어리표범나비의 서식지는 최근에 발견된 바 있는 강원도 인제와 전라남도 진도지역을 조사하였으며, 성충의 활동시기인 2012년 6 ~ 8월경 4회에 걸쳐 조사를 진행하였으며, 진도 지역에서 약 100마리 이상의 대형 군체가 확인되었다. 진도 지역의 서식지에서는 기주식물인 수염며느리밥풀(Melampyrum roseum var. japonicum)이 대규모로 자생하고 있는 것을 확인하였으며, 인제 지역에서는 국내에 기주식물로 알려진 냉초(Veronicastrum sibiricum)를 확인할 수 있었다. 기주식물에서 알이나 애벌레, 번데기를 확인하지는 못하였다. 여름어리표범나비의 생육특성을 조사하기 위하여 중부지방의 서식지에서 자생하는 냉초(Veronicastrum sibiricum)를 기주식물로 이용하였으며, 진도의 서식지에서 인공사육 실험을 위한 모충으로 암컷 3마리를 채집하여 사육실험을 진행하였다. 기주식물 화분에 망을 씌우고 암컷 개체 1마리씩을 넣어 채란을 받았다. 총 산란량은 465개였으며, 암컷 한 마리당 산란량은 120 ~ 186개로 나타났다. 알은 한 곳에 무더기로 낳아 난괴를 형성하는 특징이 있으며, 알의 크기는 직경 0.6 mm, 높이 0.7 mm로 구형에 가깝다. 120개의 알이 산란된 난괴를 대상으로 생육특성을 조사한 결과 산란된 알은 $9.96{\pm}0.4$일이 경과한 후 부화하였으며, 부화율은 95.0%였다. 부화한 애벌레는 1령 기간이 $4.1{\pm}0.6$일, 2령 $12.1{\pm}1.0$일, 3령 $8.1{\pm}0.7$일로 나타났다. 4령 애벌레는 활동이 둔해지면서 스스로 실을 내어 기주식물 잎을 둥글게 말은 후 그 속에서 집단으로 모여 있다가, 그 상태로 겨울을 나는 것으로 나타났다. 이른 봄(3월 초)에 깨어난 애벌레는 주변을 배회하다 먹이식물의 새싹이 나오면 먹이식물로 이동하여 먹이식물을 섭식한다. 큰개불알풀이나 질경이에 대한 먹이식물 이용 가능성을 조사한 결과 월동이후의 4령 애벌레부터는 정상적으로 섭식하고 자라는 것을 확인하였으며, 2차년도에 질경이를 이용한 사육시에는 산란은 하였으나 부화한 1령 애벌레가 모두 폐사하여 추가 실험이 불가능하였다. 큰개불알풀에서는 산란여부를 확인하지 못하였으며, 1령 애벌레를 이동시켜 사육실험을 진행하였으나 1령 애벌레시기에 모두 폐사하였다. 여름어리표범나비는 6회의 탈피를 통해 총 7령까지 성장하고, 4령 애벌레는 월동기간을 포함하여 $239.2{\pm}10.9$일, 5령 기간은 $12.3{\pm}1.3$일, 6령 기간은 $17.1{\pm}1.1$일, 7령 기간은 $10.5{\pm}1.0$일로 나타났으며, 총 애벌레 기간이 무려 $303.4{\pm}14.0$일에 이른다. 탈피각을 통해 애벌레의 두폭을 확인한 결과 1령이$0.28{\pm}0.02mm$, 2령 $0.45{\pm}0.02mm$, 3령이 $0.58{\pm}0.02mm$, 4령이 $0.75{\pm}0.03mm$, 5령이 $0.89{\pm}0.05mm$, 6령이 $1.23{\pm}0.06mm$, 7령이 $2.13{\pm}0.11mm$로 나타났다. 7령 말기의 애벌레는 약 2일간의 전용기간을 거친 후 먹이식물의 줄기나 주변의 식물에서 번데기가 된다. 번데기의 크기는 약 13 mm였으며 용화율은 약 92.0%로 나타났다. $9.1{\pm}1.6$일간의 번데기 기간을 거친 후 성충으로 우화하였으며, 우화율은 88.6%였다. 본 실험 결과 여름어리표범나비의 인공사육이 가능한 것으로 나타났으나, 애벌레 기간이 길고 1세대가 1년에 걸쳐 이루어지는 등의 단점으로 인해 대량사육에는 어려움이 있을 것으로 판단되었다. 여름어리표범나비의 멸종을 막기 위해서는 향후 지속적인 증식과 서식지 복원 및 보존을 위한 노력이 따라야 할 것으로 보인다.