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球状星团模型中蓝离散星的模拟观测

Mock Observations of Blue Stragglers in Globular Cluster Models

Alison Sills, Evert Glebbeek, Sourav Chatterjee, Frederic A. Rasio

摘要:

我们用Monte Carlo动力学模型对球状星团进行了人工色星等图的绘制,然后用观测方法确定了这些星团中蓝离散星的数量。我们比较了这些蓝色离散的各种集群的属性,模仿的工作已经完成的蓝色离散在银河系球状星团,以确定这种不寻常的恒星星族的主要形成机制(S)。我们发现,一个基于质量的处方选择蓝离散将选择大约两倍的蓝离散比一个选择标准,是为观察真正的集群。然而,这两个蓝离散星的数量是很好的相关性,所以任何一个选择标准都可以用来描述一个星系团的蓝离散星种群。我们证实了之前的结果,即疯牛病代码中碰撞或合并产物演变的简化处方高估了它们的寿命。我们表明,我们的模型蓝离散遵循类似的趋势与集群的属性(核心质量,二进制分数,总质量,碰撞率)作为真正的银河系蓝离散,只要我们限制自己的模型集群的初始二进制分数高于5%。我们还表明,在早期的工作相比,在我们的模型和银河系球状星团的碰撞参数伽玛的集群核心的蓝色离散的数量确实有一个弱的依赖。

英文摘要:

We created artificial color-magnitude diagrams of Monte Carlo dynamical models of globular clusters, and then used observational methods to determine the number of blue stragglers in those clusters. We compared these blue stragglers to various cluster properties, mimicking work that has been done for blue stragglers in Milky Way globular clusters to determine the dominant formation mechanism(s) of this unusual stellar population. We find that a mass-based prescription for selecting blue stragglers will choose approximately twice as many blue stragglers than a selection criterion that was developed for observations of real clusters. However, the two numbers of blue stragglers are well-correlated, so either selection criterion can be used to characterize the blue straggler population of a cluster. We confirm previous results that the simplified prescription for the evolution of a collision or merger product in the BSE code overestimates their lifetimes. We show that our model blue stragglers follow similar trends with cluster properties (core mass, binary fraction, total mass, collision rate) as the true Milky Way blue stragglers, as long as we restrict ourselves to model clusters with an initial binary fraction higher than 5%. We also show that, in contrast to earlier work, the number of blue stragglers in the cluster core does have a weak dependence on the collisional parameter Gamma in both our models and in Milky Way globular clusters.

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