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arXiv 0904.4852astro-ph.GA
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球状星团NGC 6397生命中的1 Gyr

1Gyr in the Life of the Globular Cluster NGC 6397

Douglas C. Heggie, Mirek Giersz

摘要:

M4和NGC 6397是两个非常相似的星系球状星团,它们的区别主要在于表面亮度轮廓。M4有一个典型的King状轮廓,而NGC 6397有一个更集中的轮廓,这通常被解释为一个核心坍缩后的星团。然而,Heggie & Giersz(2008)发现M4也是一个后核坍缩星团,Giersz & Heggie(2009)得出结论,两个表面亮度分布差异的主要原因是波动。然而,这一结论是在蒙特卡罗模型的基础上得出的,在本信中,我们证实了类似的波动发生在N体模型中。这些模型是通过在模拟年龄为12 Gyr的NGC 6397的Monte Carlo模型中生成初始条件来初始化的,然后是1 Gyr。新的模型有助于澄清波动的性质,这些波动具有10^8年量级时间尺度的半规则振荡的性质。它们受到原始双星在地核演化中所起的动力学作用的影响。

英文摘要:

M4 and NGC 6397 are two very similar galactic globular clusters, which differ mainly in their surface brightness profile. M4 has a classic King-like profile, whereas NGC 6397 has a more concentrated profile, which is often interpreted as that of a post-core collapse cluster. Heggie & Giersz (2008), however, found that M4 is also a post-core collapse cluster, and Giersz & Heggie (2009) concluded that the main reason for the difference between the two surface brightness profiles is fluctuations. This conclusion was reached on the basis of Monte Carlo models, however, and in the present Letter we verify that similar fluctuations occur in N-body models. The models were initialised by generating initial conditions from the Monte Carlo model of NGC 6397 at the simulated age of 12Gyr, and one was followed for 1Gyr. The new models help to clarify the nature of the fluctuations, which have the nature of semi-regular oscillations with a time scale of order 10^8yr. They are influenced by the dynamical role which is played by primordial binaries in the evolution of the core.

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