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极贫金属星的IMF和对Milky Way恒星形成过程的探讨

The IMF of Extremely Metal-Poor Stars and the Probe into the Star-Formation Process of the Milky Way

Yutaka Komiya, Takuma Suda, Asao Habe, Masayuki Y. Fujimoto

摘要:

基于对星系晕中极贫金属星(EMP)的观测,讨论了银河系的恒星形成历史,以了解早期宇宙的演化和结构形成。EMP星的初始质量函数(IMF)是由EMP幸存者中碳增强EXP(CEMP)星的观测分数导出的,CEMP星被认为起源于具有质量转移的密近双星系统的演化。根据EMP星的演化理论和双星演化理论,我们发现金属丰度[Fe/H]<-2.5的恒星是在典型质量~10M_sun时形成的。由此获得的顶重IMF被用于研究银河系的早期化学演化。我们构建的合并历史,我们的银河系半解析,并推导出金属丰度分布函数()的低质量EMP星的生存日期,考虑到贡献的二元系统。结果表明,由此产生的EMPs可以很好地再现所观察到的分布的EMP幸存者,特别是,他们几乎都来自一个较小的质量的伴侣在双星系统。我们还研究了首发星对EMP星的影响。

英文摘要:

We discuss the star formation history of the Galaxy, based on the observations of extremely metal-poor stars (EMP) in the Galactic halo, to gain an insight into the evolution and structure formation in the early universe. The initialmass function (IMF) of EMP stars is derived from the observed fraction of carbon-enhanced EXP (CEMP) stars among the EMP survivors, which are thought to originate from the evolution in the close binary systems with mass transfer. Relying upon the theory of the evolution of EMP stars and of their binary evolution, we find that stars of metallicity [Fe/H]<-2.5 were formed at typical mass of ~10M_sun. The top heavy IMF thus obtained is applied to study the early chemical evolution of the Galaxy. We construct the merging history of our Galaxy semi-analytically and derive the metallicity distribution function (MDF) of low-mass EMP stars that survive to date with taking into account the contribution of binary systems. It is shown that the resultant MDF can well reproduce the observed distribution of EMP survivors, and, in particular, that they almost all stem from a less-mass companion in binary systems. We also investigate how first stars affect the MDF of EMP stars.

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