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南方红外自行巡天III:对低质量恒星质量函数的约束

Southern Infrared Proper Motion Survey III: Constraining the mass function of low mass stars

N. R. Deacon, G. Nelemans, N. C. Hambly

摘要:

恒星质量函数是恒星天体物理的基本分布之一。在质量与太阳相似的情况下,它的形状是由Salpeter(1955)发现的,是一个幂律$m^{-α}$,斜率为$α=1.35$。从那时起,在现场,在恒星团和其他星系的质量函数进行了研究,以确定由于环境和质量范围的变化。在这里,我们使用的结果,从以前的论文中的SIPS系列,以限制低质量恒星(0.075 M $_\odot$ $<$ m $<0.2_\odot$)的质量函数。我们使用基于Deacon & Hambly(2006)的低质量局部恒星星族模拟来模拟SIPS-II巡天的结果(Deacon & Hambly,2007)。然后,我们改变这些模拟的输入参数(指数的质量函数$α$和恒星出生率参数$β$)和比较模拟的调查结果与那些从实际调查。在对二元性进行校正并考虑到我们模型中的潜在误差后,我们发现$α=-0.62\pm0.26$对于所引用的质量范围。

英文摘要:

The stellar mass function is one of the fundamental distributions of stellar astrophysics. Its form at masses similar to the Sun was found by Salpeter (1955) to be a power-law $m^{-α}$ with a slope of $α=1.35$. Since then the mass function in the field, in stellar clusters and in other galaxies has been studied to identify variation due to environment and mass range. Here we use results from previous papers in the SIPS series to constrain the mass function of low mass stars (0.075M$_\odot$$<$m$<0.2_\odot$). We use simulations of the low mass local stellar population based on those in Deacon & Hambly (2006) to model the results of the SIPS-II survey (Deacon & Hambly, 2007). We then vary the input parameters of these simulations (the exponent of the mass function $α$ and a stellar birthrate parameter $β$) and compare the simulated survey results with those from the actual survey. After a correction for binarity and taking into account potential errors in our model we find that $α=-0.62\pm0.26$ for the quoted mass range.

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