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大麦云云中富年轻星系团NGC 1818的初始质量函数

The initial mass function of the rich young cluster NGC 1818 in the Large Magellanic Cloud

Q. Liu, R. de Grijs, L. C. Deng, Y. Hu, I. Baraffe, S. F. Beaulieu

摘要:

我们使用哈勃太空望远镜对大麦云星云中的年轻富星团NGC 1818进行测光,推导出它的恒星质量函数(MF)降到0.15 Msun。这代表了迄今为止在河外低金属丰度([Fe/H]~-0.4 dex)环境中获得的恒星系统最深的稳健MF。结合我们的结果与已公布的MF质量超过1.0 Msun,我们得到一个完整的现今MF。这是一个很好的代表团的初始MF(IMF),特别是在低质量,因为我们的观察集中在集群的不拥挤的半质量半径。因此,星团的恒星演化和动力学演化不会对低质量恒星产生显著影响。NGC 1818 IMF可以用对数正态分布和破幂律分布很好地描述,其斜率分别为Gamma=0.46+/-0.10和Gamma~-1.35(Salpeter-like),质量范围为0.15至0.8 Msun和大于0.8 Msun。在不确定性,NGC 1818国际货币基金组织是完全一致的克鲁帕太阳邻域和夏布里耶对数正态质量分布。

英文摘要:

We use deep Hubble Space Telescope photometry of the rich, young (~20-45 Myr-old) star cluster NGC 1818 in the Large Magellanic Cloud to derive its stellar mass function (MF) down to ~0.15 Msun. This represents the deepest robust MF thus far obtained for a stellar system in an extragalactic, low-metallicity ([Fe/H]~-0.4 dex) environment. Combining our results with the published MF for masses above 1.0 Msun, we obtain a complete present-day MF. This is a good representation of the cluster's initial MF (IMF), particularly at low masses, because our observations are centred on the cluster's uncrowded half-mass radius. Therefore, stellar and dynamical evolution of the cluster will not have affected the low-mass stars significantly. The NGC 1818 IMF is well described by both a lognormal and a broken power-law distribution with slopes of Gamma=0.46+/-0.10 and Gamma~-1.35 (Salpeter-like) for masses in the range from 0.15 to 0.8 Msun and greater than 0.8 Msun, respectively. Within the uncertainties, the NGC 1818 IMF is fully consistent with both the Kroupa solar-neighbourhood and the Chabrier lognormal mass distributions.

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