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银河系球状星团丰度模式的起源:对球状星团动力学和化学性质的限制

Origin of the abundance patterns in Galactic globular clusters: constraints on dynamical and chemical properties of globular clusters

T. Decressin, C. Charbonnel, G. Meynet

摘要:

目标。我们分析了第一代快速旋转大质量恒星对球状星团动力学和化学性质的影响。方法.我们使用快速旋转的大质量恒星的恒星模型,通过缓慢的机械赤道风失去质量,产生富含氢燃烧产物的物质。我们认为,高Na和低O丰度的恒星(以下称为异常星)是由单个大质量恒星的慢风和星际物质组成的。慢风和星际物质的比例是固定的,以重现在NGC 6752中观察到的Li-Na关系。结果在这种情况下,球状星团,在他们的生活中,没有失去任何恒星,我们发现,重现正常到异常恒星的观测比率,需要一个平坦的初始质量函数(IMF),通常斜率x=0.55(萨尔彼得IMF的x=1.35)。在球状星团遭受正常恒星蒸发的情况下,IMF的斜率可能会更陡:如果x=1.35,大约96%的正常恒星会消失。我们预测了恒星的分布作为其[O/Na]的函数,并获得了相当合理的协议,观察到的NGC 6752。讨论了不同氦值、12 C/13 C和16 O/17 O比值的恒星数分数的预测,以及[O/Na]值与氦值、[C/N]值、12 C/13 C值和16 O/17 O值之间的预期关系。未来的观察可能会验证这些预测。我们还提供了预测的今天的质量表示在用于形成恒星的气体的质量单位的集群,并为今天的质量之间的第一代和第二代恒星和恒星残骸的分布方式。

英文摘要:

Aims. We analyse the effects of a first generation of fast rotating massive stars on the dynamical and chemical properties of globular clusters. Methods. We use stellar models of fast rotating massive stars, losing mass through a slow mechanical equatorial winds to produce material rich in H-burning products. We propose that stars with high Na and low O abundances (hereafter anomalous stars) are formed from matter made of slow winds of individual massive stars and of interstellar matter. The proportion of slow wind and of interstellar material is fixed in order to reproduce the observed Li-Na anticorrelation in NGC 6752. Results. In the case that globular clusters, during their lifetime, did not lose any stars, we found that to reproduce the observed ratio of normal to anomalous stars, a flat initial mass function (IMF) is needed, with typically a slope x=0.55 (a Salpeter's IMF has x=1.35). In the case that globular clusters suffer from an evaporation of normal stars, the IMF slope can be steeper: to have x=1.35, about 96% of the normal stars would be lost. We make predictions for the distribution of stars as a function of their [O/Na] and obtain quite reasonable agreement with that one observed for NGC 6752. Predictions for the number fraction of stars with different values of helium, of the 12C/13C and 16O/17O ratios are discussed, as well as the expected relations between values of [O/Na] and those of helium, of [C/N], of 12C/13C and of 16O/17O. Future observations might test these predictions. We also provide predictions for the present day mass of the clusters expressed in units of mass of the gas used to form stars, and for the way the present day mass is distributed between the first and second generation of stars and the stellar remnants.

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