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年轻星团中的质量分离:它能从综合光度特性中被探测到吗?

Mass segregation in young star clusters: can it be detected from the integrated photometric properties?

Evghenii Gaburov, Mark Gieles

摘要:

我们考虑了质量分离对星团可观测综合性质的影响。可测量的性质取决于星团的动力学年龄和星团中恒星的物理年龄的组合。为了研究这两个量的所有可能的组合,我们提出了一个分析模型的质量函数的隔离星团同意的N体模拟的结果,其中任何组合可以指定。对于一个现实程度的质量分离和固定的密度分布,我们发现随着年龄的增加,在测量的核心半径和中心表面亮度的增加,减少在所有的过滤器更迅速地比预期的恒星演化单独。在陀螺仪内,测得的核心半径增加了2倍,并且当不考虑从光到质量的转换中的质量分离时,分离簇的所有过滤器中的中心表面密度将被类似的因子高估。我们发现质量分离的团簇的$V-I$颜色随半径减小约0.1-0.2等,这是可以观察到的。根据最近对部分分辨的河外星系团的观测,观察到半光半径随着波长的增加而减小,这归因于质量分离。我们的模型无法重现这些观测结果。我们发现,在不同的过滤器测量半径之间的差异总是小于5%。

英文摘要:

We consider the effect of mass segregation on the observable integrated properties of star clusters. The measurable properties depend on a combination of the dynamical age of the cluster and the physical age of the stars in the cluster. To investigate all possible combinations of these two quantities we propose an analytical model for the mass function of segregated star clusters that agrees with the results of N-body simulations, in which any combination can be specified. For a realistic degree of mass segregation and a fixed density profile we find with increasing age an increase in the measured core radii and a central surface brightness that decreases in all filters more rapidly than what is expected from stellar evolution alone. Within a Gyr the measured core radius increases by a factor of two and the central surface density in all filters of a segregated cluster will be overestimated by a similar factor when not taking into account mass segregation in the conversion from light to mass. We find that the $V-I$ colour of mass segregated clusters decreases with radius by about 0.1-0.2 mag, which could be observable. From recent observations of partially resolved extra-galactic clusters a decreasing half-light radius with increasing wavelength was observed, which was attributed to mass segregation. These observations can not be reproduced by our models. We find that the differences between measured radii in different filters are always smaller than 5%.

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