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重力潮汐引起的子结构形成?

Substructures formation induced by gravitational tides?

F. Renaud, Ch. Theis, T. Naab, C. M. Boily

摘要:

物理课上总是把潮汐说成是一种破坏性的效应。然而,潮汐也可以是压缩的。当两个星系的势能重叠时,就像在合并过程中发生的那样,完全压缩的潮汐可以发展,并对星团或潮汐矮星系等子结构的动力学产生强烈的影响。使用N体模拟的一个大的合并,我们注意到这些潮汐模式在集群规模的重要性。通过一个新的星系模型,我们得出结论,这些潮汐模式的位置和时间尺度与年轻星系团的实际分布相匹配。对压缩潮汐统计数据的详细研究表明,这种纯粹的引力效应与星团的观测性质之间存在惊人的相关性。在这篇文章中,我们介绍了压缩潮的概念,并显示其相关性的特殊情况下的银河系。我们将我们的结论扩展到广泛的参数,并讨论了它们对几个关键点的影响,如婴儿死亡率,多个恒星形成时期的集群或年龄分布。

英文摘要:

Physics lectures always refer to the tides as a disruptive effect. However, tides can also be compressive. When the potential of two galaxies overlap, as happens during a merger, fully compressive tides can develop and have a strong impact on the dynamics of substructures such as star clusters or tidal dwarf galaxies. Using N-body simulations of a large set of mergers, we noticed the importance of these tidal modes at cluster scale. With a model of the Antennae galaxies, we conclude that the positions and timescales of these tidal modes match the actual distribution of young clusters. A detailed study of the statistics of the compressive tides shows a stunning correlation between this purely gravitational effect and the observed properties of the star clusters. In this contribution, we introduce the concept of compressive tide and show its relevance in the special case of the Antennae galaxies. We extend our conclusions to a broad range of parameters and discuss their implications on several critical points such as the infant mortality, multiple star formation epochs in clusters or the age distribution.

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