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双星对星团动力学质量测定的影响

The effect of binaries on the dynamical mass determination of star clusters

M. B. N. Kouwenhoven, R. de Grijs

摘要:

遥远星团的总质量通常是由维里定理,使用视线速度色散测量和半光半径推导出来的。虽然大多数恒星形成于双星系统中,但在解释观测结果时,这一点大多被忽略了。双星的组成部分表现出轨道运动,这可能会增加测量的速度色散,因此可能导致动力学质量高估。在本文中,我们量化的影响,忽略了二进制人口的推导动力学质量的星团。我们数值模拟了星团,并研究了导出的动力学质量对双星种群性质的依赖性。我们发现,双星的存在起着至关重要的作用,非常稀疏的集群与恒星密度相媲美的场星人口(~0.1星/pc 3),因为速度色散是完全由二进制轨道运动为主。对于这样的星系团,动力学质量可能会高估真实质量达一个数量级。对于非常密集的星团(>10^7颗恒星/pc 3),双星不会显著影响动力学质量的估计。对于中等密度的星团(0.1 ~ 10^7颗星/pc 3),动力学质量可能会被高估10- 100%,这取决于双星总体的性质。

英文摘要:

The total mass of distant star clusters is often derived from the virial theorem, using line-of-sight velocity dispersion measurements and half-light radii. Although most stars form in binary systems, this is mostly ignored when interpreting the observations. The components of binary stars exhibit orbital motion, which may increase the measured velocity dispersion, and may therefore result in a dynamical mass overestimation. In this paper we quantify the effect of neglecting the binary population on the derivation of the dynamical mass of a star cluster. We simulate star clusters numerically, and study the dependence of the derived dynamical mass on the properties of the binary population. We find that the presence of binaries plays a crucial role for very sparse clusters with a stellar density comparable to that of the field star population (~0.1 stars/pc3), as the velocity dispersion is fully dominated by the binary orbital motion. For such clusters, the dynamical mass may overestimate the true mass by up to an order of magnitude. For very dense clusters (>10^7 stars/pc3), binaries do not affect the dynamical mass estimation significantly. For clusters of intermediate density (0.1-10^7 stars/pc3), the dynamical mass can be overestimated by 10-100%, depending on the properties of the binary population.

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