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Milky Way盘中的恒星形成

Hierarchical star formation in the Milky Way disk

R. de la Fuente Marcos, C. de la Fuente Marcos

摘要:

恒星形成的层次性导致星团的聚集在空间尺度和年龄方面都逐渐减少。因此,对银河系盘中星团的位置和年龄的统计分析强烈表明,一个区域中恒星形成的持续时间与其大小之间确实存在相关性。疏散星团对之间的平均年龄差随它们的间隔以~0.16次方增加。相反,对于大麦云云,Efremov和Elmegreen(1998)发现年龄差异与区域大小的~0.35次幂成比例。这种差异可能被暂时解释为一个参数,在支持本质上更短(更快)的恒星形成的时间尺度在较小的星系。然而,如果同时考虑星团溶解和不完整性的影响,银河系中星团对之间的平均年龄差随着它们的分离以~0.4的幂增加。这一结果意味着,相干的,集群模式的恒星形成的特征时间尺度是近100万年。因此,忽略星团溶解效应的总体结果是高估了恒星形成的时间尺度。另一方面,在银盘中,年轻星团的距离小于特征星团潮汐半径(10 pc)的三倍,平均年龄差为1600万年,这表明它们有共同的起源。(节录)

英文摘要:

Hierarchical star formation leads to a progressive decrease in the clustering of star clusters both in terms of spatial scale and age. Consistently, the statistical analysis of positions and ages of clusters in the Milky Way disk strongly suggests that a correlation between the duration of star formation in a region and its size does exist. The average age difference between pairs of open clusters increases with their separation as the ~0.16 power. In contrast and for the Large Magellanic Cloud, Efremov & Elmegreen (1998) found that the age difference scales with the ~0.35 power of the region size. This discrepancy may be tentatively interpreted as an argument in support of intrinsically shorter (faster) star formation time-scales in smaller galaxies. However, if both the effects of cluster dissolution and incompleteness are taken into consideration, the average age difference between cluster pairs in the Galaxy increases with their separation as the ~0.4 power. This result implies that the characteristic time-scale for coherent, clustered-mode star formation is nearly 1 Myr. Therefore, the overall consequence of ignoring the effect of cluster dissolution is to overestimate the star formation time-scale. On the other hand, in the Galactic disk and for young clusters separated by less than three times the characteristic cluster tidal radius (10 pc), the average age difference is 16 Myr, which suggests common origin. (Abridged)

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