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关于银河系中心星团的溶解。I.圆形轨道

On the dissolution of star clusters in the Galactic centre. I. Circular orbits

Andreas Ernst, Andreas Just, Rainer Spurzem

摘要:

我们提出了N体模拟溶解星团靠近银河系中心。为此,我们开发了一个新的N体程序称为nbody6gc的基础上Aarseth的一系列的N体代码。我们详细描述了算法。我们报告了Kuepper等人(2008)最近解释的潮汐臂中的密度波现象。驻波在潮汐臂中形成。波结或波团在出现的潮臂撞击有效势的势壁并被反射的位置处发展。逃逸的恒星穿过波结进一步进入潮汐臂。我们证明了波结的位置与Just等人(2009)的理论的一致性。我们还展示了一个简单的方法来研究潮汐臂的性质。通过求解沿潮汐臂的多个特征值问题,我们在数值上构造了一个方向总是沿局部惯性张量的主轴的一维坐标系。沿着该坐标系,可以评估物理量。我们的模型的半质量或溶解时间几乎与粒子数无关,这表明两体弛豫不是导致溶解的主要机制。这可能是许多年轻星团的典型情况。我们提出了一个分类方案,揭示了溶解机制。

英文摘要:

We present N-body simulations of dissolving star clusters close to galactic centres. For this purpose, we developed a new N-body program called nbody6gc based on Aarseth's series of N-body codes. We describe the algorithm in detail. We report about the density wave phenomenon in the tidal arms which has been recently explained by Kuepper et al. (2008). Standing waves develop in the tidal arms. The wave knots or clumps develop at the position, where the emerging tidal arm hits the potential wall of the effective potential and is reflected. The escaping stars move through the wave knots further into the tidal arms. We show the consistency of the positions of the wave knots with the theory in Just et al. (2009). We also demonstrate a simple method to study the properties of tidal arms. By solving many eigenvalue problems along the tidal arms, we construct numerically a 1D coordinate system whose direction is always along a principal axis of the local tensor of inertia. Along this coordinate system, physical quantities can be evaluated. The half-mass or dissolution times of our models are almost independent of the particle number which indicates that two-body relaxation is not the dominant mechanism leading to the dissolution. This may be a typical situation for many young star clusters. We propose a classification scheme which sheds light on the dissolution mechanism.

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