J/AJ/153/99    Galactic outer disk: a field toward Tombaugh 1   (Carraro+, 2017)

Galactic structure in the outer disk: the field in the line of sight to the intermediate-age open cluster Tombaugh 1. Carraro G., Sales Silva J.V., Moni Bidin C., Vazquez R.A. <Astron. J., 153, 99-99 (2017)> =2017AJ....153...99C 2017AJ....153...99C (SIMBAD/NED BibCode)
ADC_Keywords: Milky Way ; Clusters, open ; Photometry, VRI ; Abundances ; Effective temperatures ; Radial velocities ; Reddening ; Stars, distances ; Equivalent widths Keywords: Galaxy: disk - Hertzsprung-Russell and C-M diagrams - open clusters and associations: general - stars: abundances Abstract: We employ optical photometry and high-resolution spectroscopy to study a field toward the open cluster Tombaugh 1, where we identify a complex population mixture that we describe in terms of young and old Galactic thin disks. Of particular interest is the spatial distribution of the young population, which consists of dwarfs with spectral types as early as B6 and is distributed in a blue plume feature in the color-magnitude diagram. For the first time, we confirm spectroscopically that most of these stars are early-type stars and not blue stragglers or halo/thick-disk subdwarfs. Moreover, they are not evenly distributed along the line of sight but crowd at heliocentric distances between 6.6 and 8.2 kpc. We compare these results with present-day understanding of the spiral structure of the Galaxy and suggest that they trace the outer arm. This range of distances challenges current Galactic models adopting a disk cutoff at 14 kpc from the Galactic center. The young dwarfs overlap in space with an older component, which is identified as an old Galactic thin disk. Both young and old populations are confined in space since the disk is warped at the latitude and longitude of Tombaugh 1. The main effects of the warp are that the line of sight intersects the disk and entirely crosses it at the outer arm distance and that there are no traces of the closer Perseus arm, which would then be either unimportant in this sector or located much closer to the formal Galactic plane. Finally, we analyze a group of giant stars, which turn out to be located at very different distances and to possess very different chemical properties, with no obvious relation to the other populations. Description: The region of interest has been observed with the Y4KCAM camera attached to the 1.0 m telescope operated by the SMARTS consortium (http://www.astro.yale.edu/smarts/) and located at the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory (CTIO). This camera is equipped with an STA 4064x4064 CCD with 15 µm pixels, yielding a scale of 0.289"/pixel and a field of view (FOV) of 20'x20' at the Cassegrain focus of the CTIO 1.0 m telescope. The observational data were acquired on the night of 2008 January 30. We observed Landolt's SA 98 UBV(RI)KC standard star area (Landolt 1992AJ....104..372L 1992AJ....104..372L) to tie our UBVRI instrumental system to the standard system. The average seeing was 1.0". During the nights of 2010 January 5, 6, 9, and 10, we observed 40 stars of the field toward the open cluster Tombaugh 1 (10 stars from boxes A and B, 11 stars from box C, and 9 stars from box D) on Cerro Manqui at the Las Campanas Observatory using the Inamori-Magellan Areal Camera & Spectrograph (IMACS; Dressler et al. 2006SPIE.6269E..0FD), attached to the 6.5 m Magellan Telescope. Objects: ----------------------------------------------------- RA (ICRS) DE Designation(s) ----------------------------------------------------- 07 00 29 -20 34.0 Tombaugh 1 = C 0658-204 ----------------------------------------------------- File Summary: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FileName Lrecl Records Explanations -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ReadMe 80 . This file table2.dat 46 31 Fundamental Information for the Spectroscopically Observed Stars table3.dat 109 8 Atmospheric Parameters from Spectroscopy of Stars of Box B table4.dat 110 8 Abundance Ratios ([X/Fe]) for the Elements, from Na to Cr, for the Stars from Box B table6.dat 62 94 Observed Fe I and Fe II Lines table7.dat 62 77 Other Lines Studied table9.dat 109 11 Atmospheric Parameters from Spectroscopy of Stars of Box C table10.dat 109 9 Atmospheric Parameters from Spectroscopy of Stars of Box D -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- See also: J/A+A/275/101 : Chemical evolution of the galactic disk I. (Edvardsson+ 1993) J/A+A/350/955 : Atmospheric parameters in metal-poor stars. II (Gratton+, 1999) J/MNRAS/340/304 : [X/Fe] of Galactic disc F and G dwarfs (Reddy+, 2003) J/A+A/421/991 : CT1 photometry in Tombaugh 1 (Piatti+, 2004) J/AJ/144/95 : Abundance in stars of the outer galactic disk. IV. (Yong+, 2012) J/AJ/151/6 : Spectroscopic and photometric properties of Tombaugh 1 (Sales+, 2016) Byte-by-byte Description of file: table2.dat -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bytes Format Units Label Explanations -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 A1 --- Box [BCD] Box designation 3- 7 I5 --- ID [6507/36132] Star identification number 9- 19 F11.7 deg RAdeg Right Ascension in decimal degrees (J2000) 21- 31 F11.7 deg DEdeg Declination in decimal degrees (J2000) 33- 37 F5.2 mag Vmag [15.57/19.38] V band magnitude 39- 43 F5.3 mag V-I [0.458/1.512] V-I color index 45- 46 I2 --- S/N [10/75] Spectral signal-to-noise ratio at 6000Å -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Byte-by-byte Description of file: table3.dat table9.dat table10.dat -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bytes Format Units Label Explanations -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1- 5 I5 --- ID [6507/36132] Star identification number 6 A1 --- n_ID [abc] Note on ID (1) 8- 12 I5 K Teff [4600/14500]? Effective temperature 14- 17 I4 K e_Teff [20/4200]? Uncertainty in Teff 19- 21 F3.1 [cm/s2] logg [2/5.5]? Surface gravity (not in table 10) (dex) 23- 25 F3.1 [cm/s2] e_logg [0/3.2]? Uncertainty in logg (not in table 10) 27- 29 F3.1 km/s ksi [1.5/3]? Microturbulent velocity ξ (only in table 3) 31- 33 F3.1 km/s e_ksi [0.3/1]? Uncertainty in ksi (only in table 3) 35- 37 I3 km/s vsini [0/310]? Rotational velocity (only in table 9) 38 A1 --- n_vsini [c] Note on visini (only in table 9) (1) 40- 44 F5.2 [-] [FeI/H] [-0.68/0.03]? Abundance ratio [FeI/H] (only in table 3) 46- 49 F4.2 [-] e_[FeI/H] [0.13/0.34]? Uncertainty in [FeI/H] (only in table 3) 51- 52 I2 --- o_[FeI/H] [16/43]? Number of FeI lines employed (only in table 3) 54- 58 F5.2 [-] [FeII/H] [-0.7/0.05]? Abundance ratio [FeII/H] (only in table 3) 60- 63 F4.2 [-] e_[FeII/H] [0.07/0.26]? Uncertainty in [FeII/H] (only in table 3) 65 I1 --- o_[FeII/H] [1/8]? Number of FeII lines employed (only in table 3) 67- 71 F5.1 km/s RVmean [0.9/139] Mean radial velocity 73- 76 F4.1 km/s e_RVmean [0.3/45] Uncertainty in RVmean 78- 81 F4.2 --- E(V-I) [0.3/0.82]? Reddening 83- 86 F4.2 --- e_E(V-I) [0.02/0.28]? Uncertainty in E(V-I) 88- 92 F5.2 mag (m-MV)0 [10.46/16.81]? Reddening-corrected distance modulus (m-MV)0 94- 97 F4.2 mag e_(m-MV)0 [0.05/1.74]? Uncertainty in (V-Mnu)0 99-103 I5 pc Dist [1200/23000]? Distance 105-109 I5 pc e_Dist [100/11600]? Uncertainty in Dist -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Note (1): Note as follows: a = Large uncertainty in the atmospheric parameters and metallicity of this star due to low S/N; b = Problem in obtaining the microturbulent velocity (ξ) due to the low number of absorption lines with a small equivalent width, causing considerable uncertainty in the metallicity; c = No Hβ line. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Byte-by-byte Description of file: table4.dat -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bytes Format Units Label Explanations -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1- 5 I5 --- ID [11029/32782] Star identification number 7- 11 F5.2 [-] [Na/Fe] [0.19/0.42]? Abundance ratio [Na/Fe] (1) 13- 16 F4.2 [-] e_[Na/Fe] [0.01]? Uncertainty in [Na/Fe] 18 I1 --- o_[Na/Fe] [1/2]? Number of Na lines employed 20- 24 F5.2 [-] [Mg/Fe] [-0.21/0.67]? Abundance ratio [Mg/Fe] 26- 29 F4.2 [-] e_[Mg/Fe] [0.06/0.13]? Uncertainty in [Mg/Fe] 31 I1 --- o_[Mg/Fe] [1/2]? Number of Mg lines employed 33- 37 F5.2 [-] [Al/Fe] [0.1/0.59]? Abundance ratio [Al/Fe] 39- 42 F4.2 [-] e_[Al/Fe] [0.01/0.11]? Uncertainty in [Al/Fe] 44 I1 --- o_[Al/Fe] [1/4]? Number of Al lines employed 46- 50 F5.2 [-] [Si/Fe] [0.07/0.54]? Abundance ratio [Si/Fe] 52- 55 F4.2 [-] e_[Si/Fe] [0.05/0.17]? Uncertainty in [Si/Fe] 57 I1 --- o_[Si/Fe] [1/3]? Number of Si lines employed 59- 63 F5.2 [-] [Ca/Fe] [-0.3/0.47]? Abundance ratio [Ca/Fe] 65- 68 F4.2 [-] e_[Ca/Fe] [0.03/0.17]? Uncertainty in [Ca/Fe] 70 I1 --- o_[Ca/Fe] [2/4]? Number of Ca lines employed 72- 76 F5.2 [-] [Ti/Fe] [0.21/0.54] Abundance ratio [Ti/Fe] 78- 81 F4.2 [-] e_[Ti/Fe] [0.03/0.15] Uncertainty in [Ti/Fe] 83 I1 --- o_[Ti/Fe] [2/6] Number of Ti lines employed 85- 89 F5.2 [-] [Cr/Fe] [-0.21/0.35] Abundance ratio [Cr/Fe] 91- 94 F4.2 [-] e_[Cr/Fe] [0.02/0.13]? Uncertainty in [Cr/Fe] 96 I1 --- o_[Cr/Fe] [1/3] Number of Cr lines employed 98-102 F5.2 [-] [Ni/Fe] [-0.22/0.24] Abundance ratio [Ni/Fe] 104-107 F4.2 [-] e_[Ni/Fe] [0.07/0.16]? Uncertainty in [Ni/Fe] 109-110 I2 --- o_[Ni/Fe] [1/11] Number of Ni lines employed -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Note (1): [Na/Fe] accounts for the nonlocal thermodynamic equilibrium (NLTE) effects calculated as in Gratton et al. (1999, J/A+A/350/955) - see the text. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Byte-by-byte Description of file: table6.dat table7.dat -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bytes Format Units Label Explanations -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1- 5 A5 --- El Element 7- 13 F7.2 0.1nm lambda [4730.04/8773.91] Wavelength λ (Å) 15- 18 F4.2 eV chi [0.02/6.18] Excitation potential χ 20- 25 F6.3 [-] loggf [-5.95/0.42] Oscillator strength (1) 27- 30 A4 --- Ref Reference of the atomic parameters (only in table 7) (2) 32- 34 I3 0.1pm EW-11029 [20/160]? Equivalent width for star 11029 (mÅ) 36- 38 I3 0.1pm EW-13540 [23/156]? Equivalent width for star 13540 (mÅ) 40- 42 I3 0.1pm EW-13964 [40/154]? Equivalent width for star 13964 (mÅ) 44- 46 I3 0.1pm EW-26606 [36/147]? Equivalent width for star 26606 (mÅ) 48- 50 I3 0.1pm EW-27955 [17/149]? Equivalent width for star 27955 (mÅ) 52- 54 I3 0.1pm EW-28064 [10/153]? Equivalent width for star 28064 (mÅ) 56- 58 I3 0.1pm EW-31364 [22/151]? Equivalent width for star 31364 (mÅ) 60- 62 I3 0.1pm EW-32782 [40/155]? Equivalent width for star 32782 (mÅ) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Note (1): The values of the oscillator strength adopted for the Fe I and Fe II lines were taken from Lambert et al. (1996ApJS..103..183L 1996ApJS..103..183L) and Castro et al. (1997AJ....114..376C 1997AJ....114..376C). Note (2): Reference as follows: B86 = Blackwell et al. (1986MNRAS.220..289B 1986MNRAS.220..289B); DS91 = Drake & Smith (1991MNRAS.250...89D 1991MNRAS.250...89D); E93 = Edvardsson et al. (1993, J/A+A/275/101); GS = Gratton & Sneden (1988A&A...204..193G 1988A&A...204..193G); MFK = Martin et al. (2002nla..work...80R); MR94 = McWilliam & Rich (1994ApJS...91..749M 1994ApJS...91..749M); PS = Preston & Sneden (2001AJ....122.1545P 2001AJ....122.1545P); R03 = Reddy et al. (2003, J/MNRAS/340/304); R99 = Reddy et al. (1999ApJ...524..831R 1999ApJ...524..831R); S86 = Not explained in this paper; WSM = Wiese et al. (1969atp..book.....W 1969atp..book.....W). -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- History: From electronic version of the journal
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