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20億5千万年前の星群の観測から,冷たい星の回転時計
Søren Meibom1, Sydney A Barnes2, Imants Platais3
1Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA.
Nature
|December 25, 2014
まとめ
星の年齢を決定するのは難しい. この研究は,NGC 6819の冷たい恒星の自転速度を用いて回転年代測定を校正し,多くの恒星の正確な年齢を決定します.
科学分野:
- 天文学と天体物理学について
- 恒星の進化について
- 銀河のダイナミクス
背景:
- 恒星の年齢は,恒星の進化と銀河の歴史を理解するために重要です.
- 伝統的な恒星年代測定法は,性質の変化が遅いため,または測定の困難のため,低質量 (冷たい) の恒星ではしばしば信頼できない.
- 星の回転速度に基づいたギロクロノロジーは,年齢の決定のための有望な代替案を提供します.
研究 の 目的:
- ローテーション周期,恒星質量,年齢の関係を確立することによって,低質量恒星のためのジロクロノロジー方法を校正する.
- 古い恒星群のジロクロノロジーの信頼性を検証する.
主な方法:
- 25億年前の開いた星団NGC 6819.9にある30個の冷たい星の自転周期を測定した.
- 測られた自転周期と星群内の恒星質量との関係を分析する.
主要な成果:
- 回転周期と恒星の質量との間には,クラスターの年齢の冷たい恒星とよく定義された関係があることが判明した.
- この校正により,約10%の精度で年齢を決定できます.
結論:
- ギロクロノロジーは,古い集団でも,冷たい星の年齢を決定するための信頼できる方法です.
- この発見により,多くの銀河系フィールドスターの正確な年齢評価が可能になり,恒星と銀河系の研究が進んでいます.
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