arXivDaily arXiv每日学术速递 周一至周五更新
北美退伍军人节(Veterans Day),12 日无更新
arXiv 1310.8301astro-ph.GA
收藏

模拟现今球状星团中的气体疏散机制:来自演化恒星的恒星风和脉冲星加热

Modeling Gas Evacuation Mechanisms in Present-Day Globular Clusters: Stellar Winds from Evolved Stars and Pulsar Heating

J. Naiman, M. Soares-Furtado, E. Ramirez-Ruiz

摘要:

我们采用流体动力学模拟来研究球状星团中气体和尘埃的低水平的潜在机制。我们的模型研究了球状星团47、M15、NGC 6440和NGC 6752的演化恒星星族的各种组成部分的能量和质量供应的竞争效应。忽略所有其他气体疏散过程,我们发现,最近关闭主序的恒星的能量输出能够有效地清除演化的恒星喷出物,并产生符合当前观测约束的星团内气体密度。这一结果区分了一个可行的气体和尘埃疏散机制,是无处不在的球状星团。此外,我们扩展我们的分析,探讨脉冲星风反馈的效率在球状星团。在47~ Tuccott中探测到的团内电离气体使我们能够对脉冲星风热化效率进行特别严格的限制,为了符合观测到的密度限制,脉冲星风热化效率在星团的核心必须非常低。

英文摘要:

We employ hydrodynamical simulations to investigate the underlying mechanism responsible for the low levels of gas and dust in globular clusters. Our models examine the competing effects of energy and mass supply from the various components of the evolved stellar population for globular clusters 47 Tucanae, M15, NGC 6440, and NGC 6752. Ignoring all other gas evacuation processes, we find that the energy output from the stars that have recently turned off the main sequence are capable of effectively clearing the evolved stellar ejecta and producing intracluster gas densities consistent with current observational constraints. This result distinguishes a viable gas and dust evacuation mechanism that is ubiquitous in globular clusters. In addition, we extend our analysis to probe the efficiency of pulsar wind feedback in globular clusters. The detection of intracluster ionized gas in 47~Tucanae allows us to place particularly strict limits on pulsar wind thermalization efficiency, which must be extremely low in the cluster's core in order to be in accordance with the observed density constraints.

机构、总结、中文摘要均由AI分析而来,可能存在错误,请以论文正文为准。

↑