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大麦云星云中的大质量逃逸星

Massive runaway stars in the Large Magellanic Cloud

V. V. Gvaramadze, P. Kroupa, J. Pflamm-Altenburg

摘要:

大麦云星云(LMC)中大质量场星的起源一直是个谜。最近对一些质量很大(O2型)的场星的日心径向速度和系统性LMC速度之间的大偏移(~100 km/s)的测量为这个谜提供了一个可能的解释,并表明场星是在其母星团动力学演化的最开始从其出生地喷射出来的逃逸恒星。证明这个解释的一个简单方法是测量场星的自行,并表明它们正在远离附近的星团或OB星协。然而,这种方法由于到LMC的大距离而变得复杂,这使得精确的自行测量变得困难。我们使用另一种方法来解决这个问题的基础上,搜索弓冲击产生的逃逸恒星。探测到的弓形激波的几何形状将使我们能够推断恒星运动的方向,从而确定它们可能的母星团。在本文中,我们提出了一个搜索的结果,弓激波周围的六个大质量的场星,在文献中建议作为候选人的逃逸星。使用档案(斯皮策太空望远镜)数据,我们发现了一个与我们的计划恒星之一O2 V((f*))恒星BI 237相关的弓形激波,这是有史以来第一次在LMC中检测到弓形激波。弓形激波的方向表明BI 237是从OB星协LH 82(位于距离恒星投影约120 pc处)中喷出的。我们的搜索的副产品是在LMC领域的四个OB星产生的弓形激波的检测和一个弧形结构连接到候选人发光的蓝色变量R81(HD 269128)。其中两个弓形激波的几何形状与它们的关联恒星从剑鱼座30恒星形成复合体中被弹射出来的可能性是一致的。

英文摘要:

The origin of massive field stars in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) has long been an enigma. The recent measurements of large offsets (~100 km/s) between the heliocentric radial velocities of some very massive (O2-type) field stars and the systemic LMC velocity provides a possible explanation of this enigma and suggests that the field stars are runaway stars ejected from their birth places at the very beginning of their parent cluster's dynamical evolution. A straightforward way to prove this explanation is to measure the proper motions of the field stars and to show that they are moving away from one of the nearby star clusters or OB associations. This approach however is complicated by the large distance to the LMC, which makes accurate proper motion measurements difficult. We use an alternative approach for solving the problem, based on the search for bow shocks produced by runaway stars. The geometry of detected bow shocks would allow us to infer the direction of stellar motion and thereby to determine their possible parent clusters. In this paper we present the results of a search for bow shocks around six massive field stars which were suggested in the literature as candidate runaway stars. Using archival (Spitzer Space Telescope) data, we found a bow shock associated with one of our program stars, the O2 V((f*)) star BI 237, which is the first-ever detection of bow shocks in the LMC. Orientation of the bow shock suggests that BI 237 was ejected from the OB association LH 82 (located at ~120 pc in projection from the star). A by-product of our search is the detection of bow shocks generated by four OB stars in the field of the LMC and an arc-like structure attached to the candidate luminous blue variable R81 (HD 269128). The geometry of two of these bow shocks is consistent with the possibility that their associated stars were ejected from the 30 Doradus star forming complex.

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