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银河系中心的化学演化

Chemical evolution of the Galactic Center

V. Grieco, F. Matteucci, N. Ryde, M. Schultheis, S. Uttenthaler

摘要:

近年来,银河系中心(GC)区域(半径为200 pc)已被详细研究光谱恒星数据以及正在进行的恒星形成率的估计。本文的目的是通过一个详细的化学演化模型来研究GC区的化学演化,并将其结果与高分辨率光谱数据进行比较,以便对GC的形成历史施加约束。化学演化模型假定GC区是由气体快速注入形成的,然后遵循α元素和Fe的演化。我们测试了不同的初始质量函数(IMF),恒星形成的效率和气体下降的时间尺度。为了重现目前观察到的恒星形成率,我们假设恒星形成的后期事件由气体注入/吸积引发。我们发现,为了重现在GC星中观测到的[alpha/Fe]比值以及金属丰度分布函数,GC区域应该经历了一次主要的早期恒星形成强烈爆发,恒星形成效率高达25 Gyr^{-1},发生在0.1-0.7 Gyr的时间尺度上,与之前整个凸起的模型一致。虽然少量的数据使我们无法得出明确的结论,我们认为,最好的IMF应该包含更多的大质量恒星比预期的太阳附近,和恒星形成的最后一幕,持续了数亿年,应该是由一个温和的插曲气体注入/吸积,与恒星形成效率类似的前一个主要的恒星形成插曲。恒星形成的最后一幕对丰度模式的影响可以忽略不计,可能是由于酒吧引起的气体吸积。我们的研究结果排除了一个重要的陨石坠落事件作为最后一次星暴的触发因素。

英文摘要:

In recent years, the Galactic Center (GC) region (200 pc in radius) has been studied in detail with spectroscopic stellar data as well as an estimate of the ongoing star formation rate. The aims of this paper are to study the chemical evolution of the GC region by means of a detailed chemical evolution model and to compare the results with high resolution spectroscopic data in order to impose constraints on the GC formation history.The chemical evolution model assumes that the GC region formed by fast infall of gas and then follows the evolution of alpha-elements and Fe. We test different initial mass functions (IMFs), efficiencies of star formation and gas infall timescales. To reproduce the currently observed star formation rate, we assume a late episode of star formation triggered by gas infall/accretion. We find that, in order to reproduce the [alpha/Fe] ratios as well as the metallicity distribution function observed in GC stars, the GC region should have experienced a main early strong burst of star formation, with a star formation efficiency as high as 25 Gyr^{-1}, occurring on a timescale in the range 0.1-0.7 Gyr, in agreement with previous models of the entire bulge. Although the small amount of data prevents us from drawing firm conclusions, we suggest that the best IMF should contain more massive stars than expected in the solar vicinity, and the last episode of star formation, which lasted several hundred million years, should have been triggered by a modest episode of gas infall/accretion, with a star formation efficiency similar to that of the previous main star formation episode. This last episode of star formation produces negligible effects on the abundance patterns and can be due to accretion of gas induced by the bar. Our results exclude an important infall event as a trigger for the last starburst.

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