Multiple populations of Hβ emission line stars in the large magellanic cloud cluster NGC 1971

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Piatti, Andres Eduardo
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2020
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We revisited the young Large Magellanic Cloud star cluster NGC 1971 with the aim of providing additional clues to our understanding of its observed extended Main Sequence turnoff (eMSTO), a feature common seen in young stars clusters,which was recently argued to be caused by a real age spread similar to the cluster age (∼160 Myr). We combined accurate Washington and Strömgren photometry of high membership probability stars to explore the nature of such an eMSTO. From different ad hoc defined pseudo colors we found that bluer and redder stars distributed throughout the eMSTO do not show any inhomogeneities of light and heavy-element abundances. These ’blue’ and ’red’ stars split into two clearly different groups only when the Washington M magnitudes are employed, which delimites the number of spectral features responsible for the appearance of the eMSTO. We speculate that Be stars populate the eMSTO of NGC 1971 because: i) Hβ contributes to the M passband; ii) Hβ emissions are common features of Be stars and; iii) Washington M and T1 magnitudes show a tight correlation; the latter measuring the observed contribution of Hα emission line in Be stars, which in turn correlates with Hβ emissions. As far as we are aware, this is the first observational result pointing to Hβ emissions as the origin of eMSTOs observed in young star clusters. The presence outcome will certainly open new possibilities of studying eMSTO from photometric systems with passbands centered at features commonly seen in Be stars.
Fil: Piatti, Andres Eduardo. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Mendoza. Instituto Interdisciplinario de Ciencias Básicas. - Universidad Nacional de Cuyo. Instituto Interdisciplinario de Ciencias Básicas; Argentina
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GALAXIES: INDIVIDUAL: LMC
GALAXIES: STAR CLUSTERS: GENERAL
GALAXIES: STAR CLUSTERS: INDIVIDUAL: NGC 1971
TECHNIQUES: PHOTOMETRIC
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spelling Multiple populations of Hβ emission line stars in the large magellanic cloud cluster NGC 1971Piatti, Andres EduardoGALAXIES: INDIVIDUAL: LMCGALAXIES: STAR CLUSTERS: GENERALGALAXIES: STAR CLUSTERS: INDIVIDUAL: NGC 1971TECHNIQUES: PHOTOMETRIChttps://purl.org/becyt/ford/1.7https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1We revisited the young Large Magellanic Cloud star cluster NGC 1971 with the aim of providing additional clues to our understanding of its observed extended Main Sequence turnoff (eMSTO), a feature common seen in young stars clusters,which was recently argued to be caused by a real age spread similar to the cluster age (∼160 Myr). We combined accurate Washington and Strömgren photometry of high membership probability stars to explore the nature of such an eMSTO. From different ad hoc defined pseudo colors we found that bluer and redder stars distributed throughout the eMSTO do not show any inhomogeneities of light and heavy-element abundances. These ’blue’ and ’red’ stars split into two clearly different groups only when the Washington M magnitudes are employed, which delimites the number of spectral features responsible for the appearance of the eMSTO. We speculate that Be stars populate the eMSTO of NGC 1971 because: i) Hβ contributes to the M passband; ii) Hβ emissions are common features of Be stars and; iii) Washington M and T1 magnitudes show a tight correlation; the latter measuring the observed contribution of Hα emission line in Be stars, which in turn correlates with Hβ emissions. As far as we are aware, this is the first observational result pointing to Hβ emissions as the origin of eMSTOs observed in young star clusters. The presence outcome will certainly open new possibilities of studying eMSTO from photometric systems with passbands centered at features commonly seen in Be stars.Fil: Piatti, Andres Eduardo. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Mendoza. Instituto Interdisciplinario de Ciencias Básicas. - Universidad Nacional de Cuyo. Instituto Interdisciplinario de Ciencias Básicas; ArgentinaEDP Sciences2020-10info:eu-repo/semantics/articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersionhttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501info:ar-repo/semantics/articuloapplication/pdfapplication/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/11336/140434Piatti, Andres Eduardo; Multiple populations of Hβ emission line stars in the large magellanic cloud cluster NGC 1971; EDP Sciences; Astronomy and Astrophysics; 644; 98; 10-2020; 1-40004-6361CONICET DigitalCONICETenginfo:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/doi/10.1051/0004-6361/202038993info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/url/https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2020/12/aa38993-20/aa38993-20.htmlinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccesshttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ar/reponame:CONICET Digital (CONICET)instname:Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas2025-09-29T09:46:16Zoai:ri.conicet.gov.ar:11336/140434instacron:CONICETInstitucionalhttp://ri.conicet.gov.ar/Organismo científico-tecnológicoNo correspondehttp://ri.conicet.gov.ar/oai/requestdasensio@conicet.gov.ar; lcarlino@conicet.gov.arArgentinaNo correspondeNo correspondeNo correspondeopendoar:34982025-09-29 09:46:17.263CONICET Digital (CONICET) - Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicasfalse
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Multiple populations of Hβ emission line stars in the large magellanic cloud cluster NGC 1971
title Multiple populations of Hβ emission line stars in the large magellanic cloud cluster NGC 1971
spellingShingle Multiple populations of Hβ emission line stars in the large magellanic cloud cluster NGC 1971
Piatti, Andres Eduardo
GALAXIES: INDIVIDUAL: LMC
GALAXIES: STAR CLUSTERS: GENERAL
GALAXIES: STAR CLUSTERS: INDIVIDUAL: NGC 1971
TECHNIQUES: PHOTOMETRIC
title_short Multiple populations of Hβ emission line stars in the large magellanic cloud cluster NGC 1971
title_full Multiple populations of Hβ emission line stars in the large magellanic cloud cluster NGC 1971
title_fullStr Multiple populations of Hβ emission line stars in the large magellanic cloud cluster NGC 1971
title_full_unstemmed Multiple populations of Hβ emission line stars in the large magellanic cloud cluster NGC 1971
title_sort Multiple populations of Hβ emission line stars in the large magellanic cloud cluster NGC 1971
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Piatti, Andres Eduardo
author Piatti, Andres Eduardo
author_facet Piatti, Andres Eduardo
author_role author
dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv GALAXIES: INDIVIDUAL: LMC
GALAXIES: STAR CLUSTERS: GENERAL
GALAXIES: STAR CLUSTERS: INDIVIDUAL: NGC 1971
TECHNIQUES: PHOTOMETRIC
topic GALAXIES: INDIVIDUAL: LMC
GALAXIES: STAR CLUSTERS: GENERAL
GALAXIES: STAR CLUSTERS: INDIVIDUAL: NGC 1971
TECHNIQUES: PHOTOMETRIC
purl_subject.fl_str_mv https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1.7
https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1
dc.description.none.fl_txt_mv We revisited the young Large Magellanic Cloud star cluster NGC 1971 with the aim of providing additional clues to our understanding of its observed extended Main Sequence turnoff (eMSTO), a feature common seen in young stars clusters,which was recently argued to be caused by a real age spread similar to the cluster age (∼160 Myr). We combined accurate Washington and Strömgren photometry of high membership probability stars to explore the nature of such an eMSTO. From different ad hoc defined pseudo colors we found that bluer and redder stars distributed throughout the eMSTO do not show any inhomogeneities of light and heavy-element abundances. These ’blue’ and ’red’ stars split into two clearly different groups only when the Washington M magnitudes are employed, which delimites the number of spectral features responsible for the appearance of the eMSTO. We speculate that Be stars populate the eMSTO of NGC 1971 because: i) Hβ contributes to the M passband; ii) Hβ emissions are common features of Be stars and; iii) Washington M and T1 magnitudes show a tight correlation; the latter measuring the observed contribution of Hα emission line in Be stars, which in turn correlates with Hβ emissions. As far as we are aware, this is the first observational result pointing to Hβ emissions as the origin of eMSTOs observed in young star clusters. The presence outcome will certainly open new possibilities of studying eMSTO from photometric systems with passbands centered at features commonly seen in Be stars.
Fil: Piatti, Andres Eduardo. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Mendoza. Instituto Interdisciplinario de Ciencias Básicas. - Universidad Nacional de Cuyo. Instituto Interdisciplinario de Ciencias Básicas; Argentina
description We revisited the young Large Magellanic Cloud star cluster NGC 1971 with the aim of providing additional clues to our understanding of its observed extended Main Sequence turnoff (eMSTO), a feature common seen in young stars clusters,which was recently argued to be caused by a real age spread similar to the cluster age (∼160 Myr). We combined accurate Washington and Strömgren photometry of high membership probability stars to explore the nature of such an eMSTO. From different ad hoc defined pseudo colors we found that bluer and redder stars distributed throughout the eMSTO do not show any inhomogeneities of light and heavy-element abundances. These ’blue’ and ’red’ stars split into two clearly different groups only when the Washington M magnitudes are employed, which delimites the number of spectral features responsible for the appearance of the eMSTO. We speculate that Be stars populate the eMSTO of NGC 1971 because: i) Hβ contributes to the M passband; ii) Hβ emissions are common features of Be stars and; iii) Washington M and T1 magnitudes show a tight correlation; the latter measuring the observed contribution of Hα emission line in Be stars, which in turn correlates with Hβ emissions. As far as we are aware, this is the first observational result pointing to Hβ emissions as the origin of eMSTOs observed in young star clusters. The presence outcome will certainly open new possibilities of studying eMSTO from photometric systems with passbands centered at features commonly seen in Be stars.
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