Bibcode
Milone, A. P.; Marino, A. F.; Di Criscienzo, M.; D'Antona, F.; Bedin, L. R.; Da Costa, G.; Piotto, G.; Tailo, M.; Dotter, A.; Angeloni, R.; Anderson, J.; Jerjen, H.; Li, C.; Dupree, A.; Granata, V.; Lagioia, E. P.; Mackey, A. D.; Nardiello, D.; Vesperini, E.
Referencia bibliográfica
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 477, Issue 2, p.2640-2663
Fecha de publicación:
6
2018
Número de citas
94
Número de citas referidas
81
Descripción
The split main sequences (MSs) and extended MS turnoffs (eMSTOs)
detected in a few young clusters have demonstrated that these stellar
systems host multiple populations differing in a number of properties
such as rotation and, possibly, age. We analyse Hubble Space Telescope
photometry for 13 clusters with ages between ˜40 and ˜1000
Myr and of different masses. Our goal is to investigate for the first
time the occurrence of multiple populations in a large sample of young
clusters. We find that all the clusters exhibit the eMSTO phenomenon and
that MS stars more massive than ˜1.6 M_{⊙} define a blue and a
red MS, with the latter hosting the majority of MS stars. The comparison
between the observations and isochrones suggests that the blue MSs are
made of slow-rotating stars, while the red MSs host stars with
rotational velocities close to the breakup value. About half of the
bright MS stars in the youngest clusters are H α emitters. These
Be stars populate the red MS and the reddest part of the eMSTO, thus
supporting the idea that the red MS is made of fast rotators. We
conclude that the split MS and the eMSTO are a common feature of young
clusters in both Magellanic Clouds. The phenomena of a split MS and an
eMSTO occur for stars that are more massive than a specific threshold,
which is independent of the host-cluster mass. As a by-product, we
report the serendipitous discovery of a young Small Magellanic Cloud
cluster, GALFOR 1.