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球状星团NGC6397的深ACS成像:动力学模型

Deep ACS Imaging in the Globular Cluster NGC6397: Dynamical Models

Jarrod R. Hurley, Michael M. Shara, Harvey B. Richer, Ivan R. King, D. Saul Davis, Jason S. Kalirai, Brad M. S. Hansen, Aaron Dotter, Jay Anderson, Gregory G. F… 展开作者

Jarrod R. Hurley, Michael M. Shara, Harvey B. Richer, Ivan R. King, D. Saul Davis, Jason S. Kalirai, Brad M. S. Hansen, Aaron Dotter, Jay Anderson, Gregory G. Fahlman, R. Michael Rich

摘要:

我们提出了N体模型,以补充深成像的金属贫核心坍缩星系团NGC 6397与哈勃太空望远镜。所有的模拟包括恒星和双星的演化与恒星动力学的步骤和帐户的银河系的潮汐场。我们专注于模拟的结果,开始与10万个对象(恒星和双星),5%的原始双星和人口II金属丰度。经过16个Gyr的演化,模型星团中大约有20%的恒星剩余,并且已经达到核心坍缩。我们比较的颜色星等图的模型在这个年龄的中心区域和外部区域对应的观测领域的NGC 6397(约2-3半光半径从集群中心)。这表明,在外部区域的白矮星人口受到的动力学过程的影响很小-污染的光度函数的双星和白矮星与非标准的演化历史是最小的,应该不会显着影响集群年龄的测量。我们还表明,在NGC 6397领域中观察到的主序星的二进制分数可以作为代表的原始二进制分数的集群。对于主序星的质量函数,我们发现,虽然这已经改变了显着的动态在集群的寿命,特别是在中心和外部地区,观察到的字段的位置是接近最佳的恢复初始质量函数的集群恒星(低于当前的关闭质量)。更一般地说,我们看看如何在一个动态演化的星团的质量函数的变化与半径,并建议在最佳径向位置观察初始质量函数是任何年龄的集群。

英文摘要:

We present N-body models to complement deep imaging of the metal-poor core-collapsed cluster NGC6397 obtained with the Hubble Space Telescope. All simulations include stellar and binary evolution in-step with the stellar dynamics and account for the tidal field of the Galaxy. We focus on the results of a simulation that began with 100000 objects (stars and binaries), 5% primordial binaries and Population II metallicity. After 16 Gyr of evolution the model cluster has about 20% of the stars remaining and has reached core-collapse. We compare the color-magnitude diagrams of the model at this age for the central region and an outer region corresponding to the observed field of NGC6397 (about 2-3 half-light radii from the cluster centre). This demonstrates that the white dwarf population in the outer region has suffered little modification from dynamical processes - contamination of the luminosity function by binaries and white dwarfs with non-standard evolution histories is minimal and should not significantly affect measurement of the cluster age. We also show that the binary fraction of main-sequence stars observed in the NGC6397 field can be taken as representative of the primordial binary fraction of the cluster. For the mass function of the main-sequence stars we find that although this has been altered significantly by dynamics over the cluster lifetime, especially in the central and outer regions, that the position of the observed field is close to optimal for recovering the initial mass function of the cluster stars (below the current turn-off mass). More generally we look at how the mass function changes with radius in a dynamically evolved stellar cluster and suggest where the best radial position to observe the initial mass function is for clusters of any age.

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