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轨道倾角对潮汐填充星团尺度大小和演化的影响

The Effects of Orbital Inclination on the Scale Size and Evolution of Tidally Filling Star Clusters

Jeremy J. Webb, Alison Sills, William E. Harris, Jarrod R. Hurley

摘要:

我们进行了N体模拟潮汐填充星团的轨道范围内的银河系的潜力,研究轨道倾角和偏心率对它们的结构和演化的影响。在小的银河系中心距离Rgc,非零的倾角导致增加的质量损失率。潮汐加热和盘冲击,后者有时包括两个冲击事件,因为星团的移动接近和远离磁盘,帮助从星团中删除恒星。在大的Rgc倾斜轨道的集群有减少的质量损失率比非倾斜的情况下,因为强度的磁盘潜力与Rgc下降。集群与倾斜和偏心轨道的经验增加潮汐加热由于不断变化的潜力,较弱的磁盘冲击,因为通道发生在更高的RGC,和额外的潮汐冲击在perigalacticon。轨道倾角的影响随着轨道偏心率的增加而减小,因为一个高偏心率的星系团在大的Rgc下度过了它的大部分寿命。具有倾斜轨道的星系团的极限半径最好用星系团在其最大高度时的rt来表示,此时星系团的大部分寿命都在那里度过,rt的变化率最小。相反,在所有情况下,有效半径与倾角无关。

英文摘要:

We have performed N-body simulations of tidally filling star clusters with a range of orbits in a Milky Way-like potential to study the effects of orbital inclination and eccentricity on their structure and evolution. At small galactocentric distances Rgc, a non-zero inclination results in increased mass loss rates. Tidal heating and disk shocking, the latter sometimes consisting of two shocking events as the cluster moves towards and away from the disk, help remove stars from the cluster. Clusters with inclined orbits at large Rgc have decreased mass loss rates than the non-inclined case, since the strength the disk potential decreases with Rgc. Clusters with inclined and eccentric orbits experience increased tidal heating due to a constantly changing potential, weaker disk shocks since passages occur at higher Rgc, and an additional tidal shock at perigalacticon. The effects of orbital inclination decrease with orbital eccentricity, as a highly eccentric cluster spends the majority of its lifetime at a large Rgc. The limiting radii of clusters with inclined orbits are best represented by the rt of the cluster when at its maximum height above the disk, where the cluster spends the majority of its lifetime and the rate of change in rt is a minimum. Conversely, the effective radius is independent of inclination in all cases.

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