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由大质量年轻星团吸积的气体形成新的恒星星族

Formation of new stellar populations from gas accreted by massive young star clusters

Chengyuan Li, Richard de Grijs, Licai Deng, Aaron M. Geller, Yu Xin, Yi Hu, Claude-Andre Faucher-Giguere

摘要:

星团中的恒星被认为是由一个共同的原始分子气体云在一次爆发中形成的。然而,年龄超过100亿年、质量为几十万太阳质量的大质量古老球状星团往往拥有多个恒星星族,这表明在它们的一生中发生了不止一次恒星形成事件。来自晚期渐近巨星分支恒星的碰撞恒星风经常被称为第二代恒星形成的触发器。最初的星系团质量至少要比现在大10倍才能起作用。然而,在本地宇宙中没有发现质量超过几百万太阳质量的大量星团。在这里,我们报告了麦哲伦星云中的三个1- 20亿岁的大质量星团,它们显示了在最初形成时代之后数亿年发生的爆发式恒星形成的明确证据。我们表明,这样的集群可以吸积足够的气体水库,形成新的恒星,如果集群在其宿主星系的气体盘在其初始形成和最近爆发的恒星形成之间的整个时期的轨道。这可能最终导致在球状星团中普遍存在的多个恒星星族。

英文摘要:

Stars in star clusters are thought to form in a single burst from a common progenitor cloud of molecular gas. However, massive, old globular clusters -- with ages greater than 10 billion years and masses of several hundred thousand solar masses -- often harbour multiple stellar populations, indicating that more than one star-forming event occurred during their lifetimes. Colliding stellar winds from late-stage, asymptotic-giant-branch stars are often invoked as second-generation star-formation trigger. The initial cluster masses should be at least 10 times more massive than they are today for this to work. However, large populations of clusters with masses greater than a few million solar masses are not found in the local Universe. Here we report on three 1-2 billion-year-old, massive star clusters in the Magellanic Clouds, which show clear evidence of burst-like star formation that occurred a few hundred million years after their initial formation era. We show that such clusters could accrete sufficient gas reservoirs to form new stars if the clusters orbited in their host galaxies' gaseous discs throughout the period between their initial formation and the more recent bursts of star formation. This may eventually give rise to the ubiquitous multiple stellar populations in globular clusters.

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