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年轻星系团初始质量分离的极限

Limits on initial mass segregation in young clusters

Nickolas Moeckel, Ian A. Bonnell

摘要:

在许多星团中都观察到了质量分离现象,包括一些年龄不到几百万年的星团。时间尺度的论点经常被用来争辩说,这些集群必须显示原始隔离,因为他们太年轻了,不能动态放松。从另一个角度来看这一论点,这些星团的年轻和有限的时间来混合空间上不同的恒星群体可以提供与当前观测一致的初始分离量的限制。我们提出了n体实验测试这一想法,并讨论了我们的结果的恒星形成理论的影响。对于系统年龄小于几个交叉时间,我们表明,恒星形成的情况下,预测一般原始质量分离与观察到的分离水平是不一致的。

英文摘要:

Mass segregation is observed in many star clusters, including several that are less than a few Myr old. Timescale arguments are frequently used to argue that these clusters must be displaying primordial segregation, because they are too young to be dynamically relaxed. Looking at this argument from the other side, the youth of these clusters and the limited time available to mix spatially distinct populations of stars can provide constraints on the amount of initial segregation that is consistent with current observations. We present n-body experiments testing this idea, and discuss the implications of our results for theories of star formation. For system ages less than a few crossing times, we show that star formation scenarios predicting general primordial mass segregation are inconsistent with observed segregation levels.

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