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星团对星系盘的影响:星系恒星形成的新认识

The influence of star clusters on galactic disks: new insights on star-formation in galaxies

Pavel Kroupa

摘要:

恒星形成于嵌入的星团中,这些星团在决定星系恒星星族的性质方面起着关键作用。讨论了年轻星系团中逃逸星的爆发、星系团中双星的破裂、星系团中气体的爆发以及厚星系盘的起源等物理机制。我强调,每低质量恒星的SNIa率取决于在星系中形成的星团,我讨论的IGIMF理论。基于IGIMF理论,重新校准的半光度-SFR关系意味着矮不规则星系具有与主要盘状星系相同的气体耗尽时间尺度,这表明我们对矮星系演化的理解发生了重大变化。IGIMF理论也自然地导致在没有径向恒星形成截止的盘星系中观察到径向Halpha截止。对星团物理和分布的透彻理解可能会导致我们对星系演化的理解发生重大转变。

英文摘要:

Stars form in embedded star clusters which play a key role in determining the properties of a galaxy's stellar population. Physical mechanisms discussed in this paper are runaway stars shot out from young clusters, binary-star disruption in clusters, gas blow-out from clusters and the origin of thick galactic disks. I emphasise that the SNIa rate per low-mass star depends on the star-clusters formed in a galaxy and I discuss the IGIMF theory. Based on the IGIMF theory, the re-calibrated Halpha-luminosity--SFR relation implies dwarf irregular galaxies to have the same gas-depletion time-scale as major disk galaxies, suggesting a major change in our understanding of dwarf-galaxy evolution. The IGIMF-theory also naturally leads to the observed radial Halpha cutoff in disk galaxies without a radial star-formation cutoff. It emerges that the thorough understanding of the physics and distribution of star clusters may be leading to a major paradigm shift in our understanding of galaxy evolution.

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