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通过潮汐压缩形成中心大质量天体

Formation of central massive objects via tidal compression

Eric Emsellem, Glenn van de Ven

摘要:

对于一个密度不是太尖锐的峰值向中心,当地的潮汐场成为压缩在所有三个方向。然后,可用的气体可以坍缩,在中心形成一个恒星群,包括甚至被中心的黑洞所控制。我们表明,在一个广泛的(deprojected)Sersic配置文件中的球形潜力,潮汐力是压缩在一个区域内,其中包括大部分的相应的光观察到的核集群在晚型和早型星系。在这样的模式中,当相对较大的Sersic指数n >= 3.5时,引潮力几乎在任何地方都变得具有破坏性。我们还表明,一个中心的大质量物体(CMO)的质量需要删除所有的径向压缩潮汐力的比例线性与宿主星系的质量。如果CMO形成于n ~ 1的(祖先)星系中,我们预测质量分数为~ 0.1- 0.5%,与核团和超大质量黑洞的观测结果一致。虽然我们发现潮汐压缩可能驱动星系中CMO的形成,但在星系团的中心区域和更大尺度上,破坏性潮汐力可能有助于阻止气体冷却。

英文摘要:

For a density that is not too sharply peaked towards the center, the local tidal field becomes compressive in all three directions. Available gas can then collapse and form a cluster of stars in the center, including or even being dominated by a central black hole. We show that for a wide range of (deprojected) Sersic profiles in a spherical potential, the tidal forces are compressive within a region which encloses most of the corresponding light of observed nuclear clusters in both late-type and early-type galaxies. In such models, tidal forces become disruptive nearly everywhere for relatively large Sersic indices n >= 3.5. We also show that the mass of a central massive object (CMO) required to remove all radial compressive tidal forces scales linearly with the mass of the host galaxy. If CMOs formed in (progenitor) galaxies with n ~ 1, we predict a mass fraction of ~ 0.1-0.5%, consistent with observations of nuclear clusters and super-massive black holes. While we find that tidal compression possibly drives the formation of CMOs in galaxies, beyond the central regions and on larger scales in clusters disruptive tidal forces might contribute to prevent gas from cooling.

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