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球状星团中白矮星诞生反冲的动力学效应

The Dynamical Effects of White Dwarf Birth Kicks in Globular Star Clusters

John M. Fregeau, Harvey B. Richer, Frederic A. Rasio, Jarrod R. Hurley

摘要:

最近对银河系球状星团NGC 6397中白矮星(WD)种群的观测表明,WD在诞生前不久受到了几公里/秒的撞击。使用我们的Monte Carlo集群演化代码,其中包括精确的治疗所有相关的物理过程中运行的球状星团,我们研究踢他们的主机集群和WD人口本身的影响。我们发现,在集群的速度色散是可比的踢速度,WD踢是一个重要的能源的集群,延长初始集群核心收缩阶段显着,使在后期的集群核心的半质量半径比是一个因素高达~ 10大于在无踢的情况下。因此,WD井涌代表了这一关键结构参数的观测值和理论预测值之间巨大差异的可能解决方案。我们的模型还再现了观察到的趋势,年轻的WD在集群中的径向分布比老年WD更广泛。

英文摘要:

Recent observations of the white dwarf (WD) populations in the Galactic globular cluster NGC 6397 suggest that WDs receive a kick of a few km/s shortly before they are born. Using our Monte Carlo cluster evolution code, which includes accurate treatments of all relevant physical processes operating in globular clusters, we study the effects of the kicks on their host cluster and on the WD population itself. We find that in clusters whose velocity dispersion is comparable to the kick speed, WD kicks are a significant energy source for the cluster, prolonging the initial cluster core contraction phase significantly so that at late times the cluster core to half-mass radius ratio is a factor of up to ~ 10 larger than in the no-kick case. WD kicks thus represent a possible resolution of the large discrepancy between observed and theoretically predicted values of this key structural parameter. Our modeling also reproduces the observed trend for younger WDs to be more extended in their radial distribution in the cluster than older WDs.

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