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球状星团的扁平化

The Flattening of Globular Clusters

Sidney van den Bergh

摘要:

在离我们最近的三个发光星系中,即银河系、仙女座星系和NGC 5128,最亮的球状星团比最暗的球状星团要圆。另一方面(与以前的一些结果相反)的扁平化的个别LMC集群被发现是独立于他们的光度。这暗示了星系团的光度和扁平度之间的关系可能取决于宿主星系的光度。发现银河系老晕、年轻晕和星系核/盘团的内禀扁率分布没有显著差异。如果潮汐力(在银心距离小的地方最大)从球状星团中去除了角动量,那么这种依赖性也许是可以预期的。诺里斯的初步结论是,蓝色水平分支的集群比红色HB集群更平坦,这一结论并没有得到现有更大数据库的证实。换句话说,没有证据证明银河系球状星团的扁平化和水平分支形态之间令人困惑的相关性。

英文摘要:

In the three nearest luminous galaxies, the Milky Way System, the Andromeda Galaxy and NGC 5128 the brightest globular clusters are rounder than the faintest ones. On the other hand (contrary to some previous results) the flattening of individual LMC clusters is found to be independent of their luminosities. This suggests the possibility that the relationship between the flattening and luminosity of clusters might depend on host galaxy luminosity. No significant differences are found between the intrinsic flattening distributions of Galactic old halo, Galactic young halo and Galactic bulge/disk clusters. Such a dependence might perhaps have been expected if tidal forces (which are largest at small Galactocentric distances) removed angular momentum from globular clusters. The preliminary conclusion by Norris that clusters with blue horizontal branches are more flattened than red HB clusters is not confirmed by the larger data base that is now available. In other words there is no evidence for the puzzling claimed correlation between the flattening and the horizontal branch morphology of Galactic globular clusters.

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