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拱形星团质量函数的起源

The Origin of the Arches Stellar Cluster Mass Function

Sami Dib, Jongsoo Kim, Mohsen Shadmehri

摘要:

我们研究了星前核质量分布的时间演化及其在分子云中心部分向初始恒星质量函数的转变,假设核的合并是重要的.我们的目的是解释在密集的星团,如拱星团观察到的浅IMF。初始分布的PSC在不同距离的MC中心的重力不稳定的核心造成的重力湍流破碎的MC。随着时间的推移,PSC的聚结和崩溃速率之间存在竞争。当局部坍缩速率大于给定质量仓中的合并速率时,核心坍缩成恒星。在适当的参数下,我们发现合并-坍缩模型很好地再现了拱型星团IMF的所有观测特征,即在高质量端和低质量端的斜率以及在~5-6 M_sol处观测到的特殊凸起。我们的研究结果表明,今天的拱星系团的IMF是非常相似的原始之一,是之前的动力学效应的质量分离变得重要

英文摘要:

We investigate the time evolution of the mass distribution of pre-stellar cores (PSCs) and their transition to the initial stellar mass function (IMF) in the central parts of a molecular cloud (MC) under the assumption that the coalescence of cores is important. Our aim is to explain the observed shallow IMF in dense stellar clusters such as the Arches cluster. The initial distributions of PSCs at various distances from the MC center are those of gravitationally unstable cores resulting from the gravo-turbulent fragmentation of the MC. As time evolves, there is a competition between the PSCs rates of coalescence and collapse. Whenever the local rate of collapse is larger than the rate of coalescence in a given mass bin, cores are collapsed into stars. With appropriate parameters, we find that the coalescence-collapse model reproduces very well all the observed characteristics of the Arches stellar cluster IMF; Namely, the slopes at high and low mass ends and the peculiar bump observed at ~5-6 M_sol. Our results suggest that today's IMF of the Arches cluster is very similar to the primordial one and is prior to the dynamical effects of mass segregation becoming important

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