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疏散星团中恒星碰撞产物的演化。I. M67 N体模型中的蓝离散子

Evolution of stellar collision products in open clusters. I. Blue stragglers in N-body models of M67

E. Glebbeek, O. R. Pols, J. R. Hurley

摘要:

恒星碰撞是球状星团和老疏散星团中蓝离散星形成的重要通道。流体动力学模拟表明,这种碰撞的残余物处于热平衡之外,没有强烈混合,并且可以非常迅速地旋转。详细的演化模型的碰撞产物需要解释观测到的蓝离散人口和使用它们来探测星团的动力学历史。我们扩大了以前的研究,提出了一个有效的程序导入到一个完全隐式的恒星演化代码的详细碰撞模拟的结果。我们的代码是能够发展恒星碰撞产品在一个相当强大的方式,并允许系统地研究它们的演变。使用我们的代码,我们已经建立了详细的模型,碰撞蓝离散产生的$N$体模拟的M67赫尔利\emph{et al.}在2005年。我们假设碰撞是正面的,因此忽略了旋转的影响。我们的详细模型比相同质量和相同演化阶段的正常恒星更亮,但比碰撞产物的均匀混合版本更冷。增加的亮度和低效率的混合减少了碰撞产物的剩余主序列寿命,这比$N$体模拟中常用的简单处方预测的要短得多。

英文摘要:

Stellar collisions are an important formation channel for blue straggler stars in globular and old open clusters. Hydrodynamical simulations have shown that the remnants of such collisions are out of thermal equilibrium, are not strongly mixed and can rotate very rapidly. Detailed evolution models of collision products are needed to interpret observed blue straggler populations and to use them to probe the dynamical history of a star cluster. We expand on previous studies by presenting an efficient procedure to import the results of detailed collision simulations into a fully implicit stellar evolution code. Our code is able to evolve stellar collision products in a fairly robust manner and allows for a systematic study of their evolution. Using our code we have constructed detailed models of the collisional blue stragglers produced in the $N$-body simulation of M67 performed by Hurley \emph{et al.} in 2005. We assume the collisions are head-on and thus ignore the effects of rotation in this paper. Our detailed models are more luminous than normal stars of the same mass and in the same stage of evolution, but cooler than homogeneously mixed versions of the collision products. The increased luminosity and inefficient mixing decrease the remaining main-sequence lifetimes of the collision products, which are much shorter than predicted by the simple prescription commonly used in $N$-body simulations.

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