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星团中的潮汐质量损失和Fokker-Planck模型中逃逸者的处理

Tidal mass loss in star clusters and treatment of escapers in Fokker-Planck models

Koji Takahashi, Holger Baumgardt

摘要:

本文提出了一种新的处理银河潮汐场中球状星团轨道平均Fokker-Planck模型中逃逸星的方案。模型中考虑了大量的潜在逃逸者的存在,这些逃逸者的能量高于逃逸能量,但仍在潮汐半径范围内。这些模型允许潜在的逃逸者在离开星系团之前经历引力散射,因此其中一些可能会失去足够的能量再次被束缚。结果表明,Fokker-Planck模型的质量演化与包含完整潮汐力场的N体模型的质量演化具有很好的一致性。由于潜在逃逸者的存在,质量损失时间并不简单地与弛豫时间成比例;它随恒星数量的增加比弛豫时间慢,尽管在弱潮汐场的极限下,它往往与弛豫时间成比例。Fokker-Planck模型包括两个参数,库仑对数ln(gamma N)中的系数gamma和控制质量损失效率的系数nu_e。这些参数的值是通过比较Fokker-Planck模型和N体模型确定的。发现参数集(gamma,nu_e)=(0.11,7)对单质量团簇和多质量团簇都适用,但参数集(gamma,nu_e)=(0.02,40)是多质量团簇的另一种可能选择。

英文摘要:

This paper presents a new scheme to treat escaping stars in the orbit-averaged Fokker-Planck models of globular star clusters in a galactic tidal field. The existence of a large number of potential escapers, which have energies above the escape energy but are still within the tidal radius, is taken into account in the models. The models allow potential escapers to experience gravitational scatterings before they leave clusters and thus some of them may lose enough energy to be bound again. It is shown that the mass evolution of the Fokker-Planck models are in good agreement with that of N-body models including the full tidal-force field. The mass-loss time does not simply scale with the relaxation time due to the existence of potential escapers; it increases with the number of stars more slowly than the relaxation time, though it tends to be proportional to the relaxation time in the limit of a weak tidal field. The Fokker-Planck models include two parameters, the coefficient gamma in the Coulomb logarithm ln(gamma N) and the coefficient nu_e controlling the efficiency of the mass loss. The values of these parameters are determined by comparing the Fokker-Planck models with the N-body models. It is found that the parameter set (gamma, nu_e)=(0.11, 7) works well for both single-mass and multi-mass clusters, but that the parameter set (gamma, nu_e)=(0.02, 40) is another possible choice for multi-mass clusters.

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