Is there a metallicity gradient in the LMC?

Details Is there a metallicity gradient in the LMC? Is there a metallicity gradient in the LMC?

2010-08-13

arxiv.org/abs/1008.2274v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics

5 pages, 6 figures, accepted for MNRAS Letters

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A small but significant radial gradient in the mean periods of LMC RR Lyrae variables is established from the OGLEIII survey data. This is interpreted as a metallicity gradient but other possibilities are discussed. Data on the ratio of photometrically selected C- and M-type AGB stars in the LMC, kindly provided by M-R. L. Cioni, are reanalysed. Removing the effects of bias leads to conclusions strikingly different to the original ones. There is a slight gradient of the C/M ratio in the inner part of the LMC which might be due to a very small mean metallicity gradient. In the outer part of the LMC the C/M ratio drops dramatically. The most likely reason for this is that the proportion of older stars increases in the outer regions. The mean metallicity of the inner AGB star population estimated from the C/M ratio is lower than for intermediate age LMC clusters and suggest that this population is in the mean older than the clusters and has a mean age which falls in the LMC cluster age gap.

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