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恒星晕的化学和动力学性质

Chemical and Dynamical Properties of the Stellar Halo

C. B. Brook, D. Kawata, H. Martel, B. K. Gibson, E. Scannapieco

摘要:

不同密度峰对暗物质晕贡献的密度分布的差异导致了对银河系恒星晕的某些期望。我们将模拟的晕星分为两个种群:在最后一次大合并之前/期间形成的,以及在最后一次大合并之后吸积的。前一个星群更集中地位于z=0,而在低质量晚期形成的原星系中形成的恒星则散布在晕中。观察到的结合能的差异区分这两个群体。我们研究了这两个种群可能的化学丰度特征。我们还表明,在孤立的低西格玛峰形成的星系将形成从原始材料。因此,即使最古老的恒星集中在早期坍缩的致密区域,原始恒星也会分布在整个晕中。因此,缺乏观测到的无金属恒星可以被视为直接限制了第三星族IMF,而观测到的金属丰度最低的恒星可以被解释为持有第三星族恒星化学产额的线索。

英文摘要:

The difference in density profiles of the contributions from different density peaks to dark matter halos results in certain expectations about the Milky Way's stellar halo. We cut our simulated halo stars into two populations: those forming before/during the last major merger, and those accreted after the last major merger. The former population are more centrally located at z=0, while stars forming in low mass late forming proto-galaxies are spread through the halo. A difference in observed binding energy distinguishes these two populations. We look at possible chemical abundance signatures of the two populations. We also show that galaxies forming in isolated low sigma peaks will form from primordial material. Thus, even though the oldest stars are centrally concentrated as they originated in the early collapsing, densest regions, primordial stars would be found distributed throughout the halo. Thus, the lack of observed metal free stars can be taken as directly constraining the Population III IMF, and the lowest metallicity observed stars can be interpreted as holding clues to the chemical yields of Pop III stars.

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