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如果你能抓住我:在猎户座星云团中有一个失控的质量黑洞吗?

Catch me if you can: is there a runaway-mass black hole in the Orion Nebula Cluster?

Ladislav Subr, Pavel Kroupa, Holger Baumgardt

摘要:

本文利用直接N体积分方法研究了猎户座星云团(ONC)的动力学演化。当ONC形成时,很大一部分残余气体可能被排出,因此我们假设ONC形成时比目前的大小要紧凑得多,与Marks & Kroupa(2012)的嵌入式星系团半径-质量关系一致。因此,我们假设,少体弛豫发挥了重要作用,在初始阶段的ONC的演变。特别是,OB星之间的三体相互作用可能导致它们从星团中弹射出来,同时,通过失控的物理恒星碰撞形成一个巨大的物体。由此产生的星系团中恒星质量函数的高质量端的耗尽是我们的模型拟合观测数据的重要点之一。我们推测,逃逸质量的恒星可能直接坍缩成一个大质量的黑洞(Mbh > 100 Msun)。这样一个黑暗的物体可以解释在ONC核心观察到的四颗梯形星的大速度色散。我们进一步表明,假定的大质量黑洞很可能是一个双星系统的成员与appr。70%的可能性。在这种情况下,它可以通过在近心点通过期间来自次级恒星的恒星风的短时间增强吸积来检测,或者通过测量次级恒星的运动,其速度在整个轨道上超过10公里/秒。

英文摘要:

We investigate the dynamical evolution of the Orion Nebula Cluster (ONC) by means of direct N-body integrations. A large fraction of residual gas was probably expelled when the ONC formed, so we assume that the ONC was much more compact when it formed compared to its current size, in agreement with the embedded cluster radius-mass relation from Marks & Kroupa (2012). Hence, we assume that few-body relaxation played an important role during the initial phase of evolution of the ONC. In particular, three body interactions among OB stars likely led to their ejection from the cluster and, at the same time, to the formation of a massive object via runaway physical stellar collisions. The resulting depletion of the high mass end of the stellar mass function in the cluster is one of the important points where our models fit the observational data. We speculate that the runaway-mass star may have collapsed directly into a massive black hole (Mbh > 100Msun). Such a dark object could explain the large velocity dispersion of the four Trapezium stars observed in the ONC core. We further show that the putative massive black hole is likely to be a member of a binary system with appr. 70 per cent probability. In such a case, it could be detected either due to short periods of enhanced accretion of stellar winds from the secondary star during pericentre passages, or through a measurement of the motion of the secondary whose velocity would exceed 10 km/s along the whole orbit.

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