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顶重恒星初始质量函数随密度增加和金属丰度降低的证据

Evidence for top-heavy stellar initial mass functions with increasing density and decreasing metallicity

Michael Marks, Pavel Kroupa, Jörg Dabringhausen, Marcel S. Pawlowski

摘要:

团簇形成后的残余气体排出最近被证明在低质量的现今恒星质量函数(PDMF)中留下印记,该函数允许估计一些银河系球状星团(GC)的出生条件,例如质量、半径和恒星形成效率。我们表明,为了解释它们的特性(质量,半径,金属丰度,PDMF),它们的恒星初始质量函数(IMF)必须是头重脚轻的。结果表明,团簇金属丰度越低,GC前云核密度越大,IMF越需要变得头重脚轻。推导的趋势与理论预期定性一致。结果是一致的估计的高质量端的国际货币基金组织的拱形集群,Westerlund 1,R136和NGC 3603,以及与国际货币基金组织独立约束超紧凑矮星系(UCD)的形状。后者表明,GC和UCD可能是沿着同一通道形成的,或者UCD是通过GC合并形成的。找到了一个同时描述IMF随GC前云核密度和金属丰度变化的基本面。在宇宙学时期,星系的演化和化学富集的影响预计将是重大的。

英文摘要:

Residual-gas expulsion after cluster formation has recently been shown to leave an imprint in the low-mass present-day stellar mass function (PDMF) which allowed the estimation of birth conditions of some Galactic globular clusters (GCs) such as mass, radius and star formation efficiency. We show that in order to explain their characteristics (masses, radii, metallicity, PDMF) their stellar initial mass function (IMF) must have been top-heavy. It is found that the IMF is required to become more top-heavy the lower the cluster metallicity and the larger the pre-GC cloud-core density are. The deduced trends are in qualitative agreement with theoretical expectation. The results are consistent with estimates of the shape of the high-mass end of the IMF in the Arches cluster, Westerlund 1, R136 and NGC 3603, as well as with the IMF independently constrained for ultra-compact dwarf galaxies (UCDs). The latter suggests that GCs and UCDs might have formed along the same channel or that UCDs formed via mergers of GCs. A fundamental plane is found which describes the variation of the IMF with density and metallicity of the pre-GC cloud-cores simultaneously. The implications for the evolution of galaxies and chemical enrichment over cosmological times are expected to be major.

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