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星团的主序

The Main Sequence of Star Clusters

Andreas H. W. Kuepper, Pavel Kroupa, Holger Baumgardt

摘要:

提出了一种观察星团演化的新方法。利用星团的平均动能给出的动力学温度和恒星离开星团的动能定义的动力学光度,用一个新的星团动力学温度-光度图研究了星团的解体.调查包含一个参数空间研究的疏散星团的N = 32768单质量恒星不同的初始密度分布,半质量半径,潮汐条件和二进制分数。这些星系团的动力学温度和动力学光度之间有很强的相关性,并且大多数被研究的星系团家族在这样的动力学温度-光度图中有一个共同的序列。从这个序列的偏差进行了分析和讨论。在核心坍缩之后,星系团在这个图中的位置可以由三个参数来定义:质量、潮汐条件和双星分数。由于核心坍缩,所有的初始条件都失去了,剩下的恒星会调整到给定的潮汐条件。双星作为内能源影响这种调整。另一个发现涉及星团的拉格朗日半径:在整个研究的参数空间中,几乎所有的星团在核心坍缩后直到溶解的时间内都表现出恒定的半质量半径。此外,半质量半径与潮汐半径的比值演化为一个共同的序列,该序列仅取决于星团中剩余的质量。

英文摘要:

A novel way of looking at the evolution of star clusters is presented. With a dynamical temperature, given by the mean kinetic energy of the cluster stars, and a dynamical luminosity, which is defined as the kinetic energy of the stars leaving the cluster in analogy to the energy of photons emitted by a star, the dissolution of star clusters is studied using a new dynamical temperature-luminosity diagram for star clusters. The investigation contains a parameter-space study of open clusters of up to N = 32768 single-mass stars with different initial density distributions, half-mass radii, tidal conditions and binary fractions. The clusters show a strong correlation between dynamical temperature and dynamical luminosity and most of the investigated cluster families share a common sequence in such a dynamical temperature-luminosity diagram. Deviations from this sequence are analyzed and discussed. After core collapse, the position of a cluster within this diagram can be defined by three parameters: the mass, the tidal conditions and the binary fraction. Due to core collapse all initial conditions are lost and the remaining stars adjust to the given tidal conditions. Binaries as internal energy sources influence this adjustment. A further finding concerns the Lagrange radii of star clusters: Throughout the investigated parameter space nearly all clusters show a constant half-mass radius for the time after core collapse until dissolution. Furthermore, the ratio of half-mass radius to tidal radius evolves onto a common sequence which only depends on the mass left in the cluster.

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