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大麦云云中约束条件较差的星团破裂时间尺度

The poorly constrained cluster disruption time-scale in the Large Magellanic Cloud

Genevieve Parmentier, Richard de Grijs

摘要:

我们使用Monte-Carlo模拟,结合均匀确定的年龄和质量分布的基础上,多波长测光,约束集团的形成历史和束缚集团的大麦云(LMC)集团系统的破裂率。我们发展合成星团系统形成的幂律初始集群质量函数(ICMF)的光谱指数$α=-2$假设不同的集群破裂的时间尺度。对于每个这些中断的时间尺度,我们推导出相应的集群形成率(CFR)所需的复制观察到的集群年龄分布。然后,我们比较,在泊松$χ^2$意义上,模型的质量分布和模型的二维分布在日志(质量)与日志(年龄)空间的检测到的幸存集群的意见。由于观察到的簇样本在明亮检测限($M_V^{\rm lim} \simeq -4.7$ mag)以上就完整了,因此无法将$10^4$ M $_\odot$簇的特征破坏时间尺度$t_4^{\rm dis}$(其中破坏时间尺度取决于簇质量,如$t_{\rm dis} = t_4^{\rm dis} (M_{\rm cl} / 10^4 {\rm M}_\odot)^0.62$)限制为比$t_4^{\rm dis} \ge 1$ Gyr更好。我们得出结论,CFR已从5 Gyr前的0.3簇Myr $^{-1}$增加到目前的$(20-30)$簇Myr $^{-1}$。对于年龄较大的推导CFR敏感地依赖于我们的假设的基础CMF形状。如果我们假设一个普遍的高斯ICMF,那么CFR在哈勃时间内从$\sim 1$星团Gyr $^{-1}$ 15 Gyr前稳定地增加到它现在的值。如果ICMF一直是一个幂律的斜率接近$α=-2$,CFR表现出一个最小的一些5 Gyr前,我们暂时确定与著名的年龄差距在大麦哲伦星系团的年龄分布。

英文摘要:

We use Monte-Carlo simulations, combined with homogeneously determined age and mass distributions based on multi-wavelength photometry, to constrain the cluster formation history and the rate of bound cluster disruption in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) cluster system. We evolve synthetic star cluster systems formed with a power-law initial cluster mass function (ICMF) of spectral index $α=-2$ assuming different cluster disruption time-scales. For each of these disruption time-scales we derive the corresponding cluster formation rate (CFR) required to reproduce the observed cluster age distribution. We then compare, in a Poissonian $χ^2$ sense, model mass distributions and model two-dimensional distributions in log(mass) vs. log(age) space of the detected surviving clusters to the observations. Because of the bright detection limit ($M_V^{\rm lim} \simeq -4.7$ mag) above which the observed cluster sample is complete, one cannot constrain the characteristic disruption time-scale for a $10^4$ M$_\odot$ cluster, $t_4^{\rm dis}$ (where the disruption time-scale depends on cluster mass as $t_{\rm dis} = t_4^{\rm dis} (M_{\rm cl} / 10^4 {\rm M}_\odot)^0.62$), to better than $t_4^{\rm dis} \ge 1$ Gyr. We conclude that the CFR has increased from 0.3 clusters Myr$^{-1}$ 5 Gyr ago, to a present rate of $(20-30)$ clusters Myr$^{-1}$. For older ages the derived CFR depends sensitively on our assumption of the underlying CMF shape. If we assume a universal Gaussian ICMF, then the CFR has increased steadily over a Hubble time from $\sim 1$ cluster Gyr$^{-1}$ 15 Gyr ago to its present value. If the ICMF has always been a power law with a slope close to $α=-2$, the CFR exhibits a minimum some 5 Gyr ago, which we tentatively identify with the well-known age gap in the LMC's cluster age distribution.

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