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通过球状星团中恒星碰撞的额外混合挖掘出的高富氦物质

Highly He-Rich Matter Dredged Up by Extra Mixing through Stellar Encounters in Globular Clusters

Takuma Suda, Takuji Tsujimoto, Toshikazu Shigeyama, Masayuki Y. Fujimoto

摘要:

半人马座ω星和NGC 2808的主序星分裂表明,在这些球状星团(GC)中产生了高度富集He的物质(以质量分数Y~0.4计),并使一些主序星的颜色变得更蓝。富氦物质的潜在产生地点通常被认为是经历第二次疏浚的大质量AGB星。然而,我们发现大质量AGB星最多提供Y~0.35的物质,而观测到的蓝移需要Y~0.4的物质存在。在这里,我们表明,额外的混合,这在红巨星阶段的恒星质量小于2Msun,可能是一种机制,提高他的内容在他们的信封Y~0.4。额外的混合被认为是由红巨星与其他恒星在像GC这样的碰撞系统中相遇引起的。在AGB阶段释放的Y~0.4物质有两种命运:(i)从GC中逃逸或(ii)通过碰撞被运动学冷恒星捕获。欧米茄Cen中的AGB喷出物,遵循后一种情况,可以提供足够的He引起观察到的蓝移。同时,这个方案产生了极端的水平分支,正如在ω Cen中观察到的那样,这是对更高的质量损失率的响应,这也是由恒星相遇引起的。

英文摘要:

The unveiled main-sequence splitting in omega Centauri as well as NGC 2808 suggests that matter highly-enriched in He (in terms of its mass fraction Y~0.4) was produced and made the color of some main-sequence stars bluer in these globular clusters (GCs). The potential production site for the He-rich matter is generally considered to be massive AGB stars that experience the second dredge-up. However, it is found that massive AGB stars provide the matter with Y~0.35 at most, while the observed blue-shift requires the presence of Y~0.4 matter. Here, we show that extra mixing, which operates in the red giant phase of stars less massive than ~2Msun, could be a mechanism that enhances He content in their envelopes up to Y~0.4. The extra mixing is supposed to be induced by red giant encounters with other stars in a collisional system like GCs. The Y~0.4 matter released in the AGB phase has alternative fates to (i) escape from a GC or (ii) be captured by kinematically cool stars through encounters. The AGB ejecta in omega Cen, which follows the latter case, can supply sufficient He to cause the observed blue-shift. Simultaneously, this scheme generates the extreme horizontal branch, as observed in omega Cen in response to the higher mass loss rates, which is also caused by stellar encounters.

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