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星系合并中的潮汐场动力学与星团形成

Dynamics of the Tidal Fields and Formation of Star Clusters in Galaxy Mergers

Florent Renaud

摘要:

在相互作用的星系中,强大的潮汐力扰乱了祖先的整体形态,并产生了经常观察到的长恒星,气体和尘埃尾巴。除了这种破坏性的影响,潮汐力可以变成一个短暂的,保护性的设置称为压缩模式。这样的模式通过增加其引力结合能来保护它们中间的物质。本论文的重点是研究这个鲜为人知的制度,量化其属性由于数值和分析工具应用到一个壮观的合并系统的两个星系,通常被称为银河系。这对的N体模拟在观测揭示恒星形成爆发的区域产生压缩模式。此外,这些模式的特征时间和能量尺度与自引力子结构(如星团和潮汐矮星系)的特征时间和能量尺度相匹配。这些结果表明,潮汐场的压缩模式在年轻星系团的形成和演化中起着重要的作用,至少在统计意义上,在过去的1000万年。恒星协会的模拟的初步结果突出了嵌入在不断发展的背景星系的集群,以准确地解释其形态和内部演化的重要性。

英文摘要:

In interacting galaxies, strong tidal forces disturb the global morphology of the progenitors and give birth to the long stellar, gaseous and dusty tails often observed. In addition to this destructive effect, tidal forces can morph into a transient, protective setting called compressive mode. Such modes then shelter the matter in their midst by increasing its gravitational binding energy. This thesis focuses on the study of this poorly known regime by quantifying its properties thanks to numerical and analytical tools applied to a spectacular merging system of two galaxies, commonly known as the Antennae galaxies. N-body simulations of this pair yield compressive modes in the regions where observations reveal a burst of star formation. Furthermore, characteristic time- and energy scales of these modes match well those of self-gravitating substructures such as star clusters and tidal dwarf galaxies. These results suggest that the compressive modes of tidal fields plays an important role in the formation and evolution of young clusters, at least in a statistical sense, over a lapse of ~10 million years. Preliminary results from simulations of stellar associations highlight the importance of embedding the clusters in the evolving background galaxies to account precisely for their morphology and internal evolution.

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