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哈勃太空望远镜时代的年轻大质量星团

Young massive star clusters in the era of the Hubble Space Telescope

Richard de Grijs

摘要:

哈勃太空望远镜(HST)在发现大量河外年轻大质量星团(YMC)方面发挥了重要作用,这些星团通常被认为是原始球状星团(GC)。因此,YMC的形成和演化领域正在蓬勃发展,产生了重大突破以及年度(或更短)时间尺度上的争议。在这里,我回顾了YMC的长期生存机会,强烈的星暴事件的标志往往与激烈的星系相互作用。在没有显著的外部扰动的情况下,决定星团长期生存机会的关键因素是其恒星初始质量函数(IMF)的形状。然而,在尚未解决的河外YMC中评估IMF的形状并不简单。我还讨论了最新的进展,在全球范围内的努力,以更好地了解整个集群人口的演变,主要是基于HST的观测,并得出结论,有越来越多的证据表明,GC的形成似乎一直持续到今天,他们的长期演变关键取决于他们的环境条件,但是。

英文摘要:

The Hubble Space Telescope (HST) has been instrumental in the discovery of large numbers of extragalactic young massive star clusters (YMCs), often assumed to be proto-globular clusters (GCs). As a consequence, the field of YMC formation and evolution is thriving, generating major breakthroughs as well as controversies on annual (or shorter) time-scales. Here, I review the long-term survival chances of YMCs, hallmarks of intense starburst episodes often associated with violent galaxy interactions. In the absence of significant external perturbations, the key factor determining a cluster's long-term survival chances is the shape of its stellar initial mass function (IMF). It is, however, not straightforward to assess the IMF shape in unresolved extragalactic YMCs. I also discuss the latest progress in worldwide efforts to better understand the evolution of entire cluster populations, predominantly based on HST observations, and conclude that there is an increasing body of evidence that GC formation appears to be continuing until today; their long-term evolution crucially depends on their environmental conditions, however.

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