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来自真实模拟的星团核心双星分数

The core binary fractions of star clusters from realistic simulations

Jarrod R. Hurley, Sverre J. Aarseth, Michael M. Shara

摘要:

我们调查的演化的二进制分数在星团中使用N体模型多达10万颗恒星。这些模型中的原始二进制频率范围从5%到50%。用NBODY 4程序进行模拟,包括恒星的全质量谱、恒星演化、双星演化和银河系的潮汐场。我们发现,一个集群的整体二进制分数几乎总是保持接近原始值,除了在晚些时候,当集群是近解散。一个关键的例外发生在中心区域,我们观察到一个显着的增加,随着时间的推移-模拟开始与100000颗恒星和5%的二进制达到核心二进制频率高达40%,在年底的核心崩溃阶段(发生在16 Gyr与~20000恒星剩余)。随着星系团的演化,双星在核心中被各种过程摧毁,但在交换相互作用中,质量分离和新双星的产生相结合,产生了观察到的相对数量的增加。我们还发现,二进制循环进出集群核心的方式是类似于恒星对流。对于100000颗恒星的模型,我们表明,核心半径的演化到核心坍缩的初始阶段结束时,不受原始二进制频率的确切值(频率为10%或更少)的影响。我们讨论了我们的结果可能的原始二进制内容的球状星团的后果。

英文摘要:

We investigate the evolution of binary fractions in star clusters using N-body models of up to 100000 stars. Primordial binary frequencies in these models range from 5% to 50%. Simulations are performed with the NBODY4 code and include a full mass spectrum of stars, stellar evolution, binary evolution and the tidal field of the Galaxy. We find that the overall binary fraction of a cluster almost always remains close to the primordial value, except at late times when a cluster is near dissolution. A critical exception occurs in the central regions where we observe a marked increase in binary fraction with time -- a simulation starting with 100000 stars and 5% binaries reached a core binary frequency as high as 40% at the end of the core-collapse phase (occurring at 16 Gyr with ~20000 stars remaining). Binaries are destroyed in the core by a variety of processes as a cluster evolves, but the combination of mass-segregation and creation of new binaries in exchange interactions produces the observed increase in relative number. We also find that binaries are cycled into and out of cluster cores in a manner that is analogous to convection in stars. For models of 100000 stars we show that the evolution of the core-radius up to the end of the initial phase of core-collapse is not affected by the exact value of the primordial binary frequency (for frequencies of 10% or less). We discuss the ramifications of our results for the likely primordial binary content of globular clusters.

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