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arXiv 0911.0789astro-ph.GAastro-ph.SR
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星团作为恒星和动力学演化的实验室

Star clusters as laboratories for stellar and dynamical evolution

Jason S. Kalirai, Harvey B. Richer

摘要:

疏散星团和球状星团被认为是具有相同年龄和金属丰度的简单恒星星族,因此它们一直是恒星演化研究的基准。在简要回顾了一些开创性的工作,建立了成像恒星在这些系统中的重要性,我们专注于最近的几项研究,挑战了我们的基本图片的星团。这些新的研究表明,星团可以很好地窝藏多个恒星星族,可能是通过自我富集过程形成的第一代恒星,通过后主序星演化阶段演变。正确解释这样的系统中的恒星演化与我们对化学富集机制的理解有关,包括沿着巨大分支的恒星质量损失,以及星团的动力学状态。我们说明了最近的成像,光谱和理论研究,已经开始揭示新的光在星团内发生的演化过程。

英文摘要:

Open and globular star clusters have served as benchmarks for the study of stellar evolution due to their supposed nature as simple stellar populations of the same age and metallicity. After a brief review of some of the pioneering work that established the importance of imaging stars in these systems, we focus on several recent studies that have challenged our fundamental picture of star clusters. These new studies indicate that star clusters can very well harbour multiple stellar populations, possibly formed through self-enrichment processes from the first-generation stars that evolved through post-main-sequence evolutionary phases. Correctly interpreting stellar evolution in such systems is tied to our understanding of both chemical-enrichment mechanisms, including stellar mass loss along the giant branches, and the dynamical state of the cluster. We illustrate recent imaging, spectroscopic and theoretical studies that have begun to shed new light on the evolutionary processes that occur within star clusters.

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