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银河星团NGC 4337的质量

On the mass of the Galactic star cluster NGC 4337

Anton F. Seleznev, Giovanni Carraro, Roberto Capuzzo Dolcetta, Lorenzo Monaco, Gustavo Baume

摘要:

只有一小部分银河系疏散星团存活了几亿年以上。更长的寿命通常被解释为更大的初始质量,特别是安静的轨道,以及离面的出生地。在这项工作中,我们得出了NGC 4337的实际质量,它是银河系内盘中为数不多的几个疏散星团之一,存活了大约1.5 Gyr。我们用两种不同的方法推导出它的质量。首先,我们利用一个未发表的测光数据集在UBVI通带估计-使用恒星计数-集群光度轮廓,光度和质量函数,因此它的实际质量都从光度轮廓和质量函数。这个数据集也被用来推断关键的集群参数,作为集群的半质量半径和距离。其次,我们利用大量的星团恒星径向速度的调查,得出动态估计的集群质量。在维里平衡假设下,忽略外部引力场,得到的质量值明显大于由观测密度分布或质量函数得到的质量值,但仍与星团中低质量恒星或高质量恒星残余的不可见质量的推断值勉强一致。最后,我们通过计算团簇在其生命周期中所经历的质量损失,并采用实际质量的各种估计来获得团簇的初始质量。

英文摘要:

Only a small number of galactic open clusters survives for longer than few hundred million years. Longer lifetimes are routinely explained in term of larger initial masses, particularly quiet orbits, and off-plane birth-places. We derive in this work the actual mass of NGC 4337, one of the few open clusters in the Milky Way inner disk that managed to survive for about 1.5 Gyr. We derive its mass in two different ways. First, we exploit an unpublished photometric data set in the UBVI passbands to estimate -using star counts- the cluster luminosity profile, and luminosity and mass function, and hence its actual mass both from the luminosity profile and from the mass function.This data-set is also used to infer crucial cluster parameters, as the cluster half-mass radius and distance. Second, we make use of a large survey of cluster star radial velocities to derive dynamical estimates for the cluster mass. Under the assumption of virial equilibrium and neglecting the external gravitational field leads to values for the mass significantly larger than those obtained by mean of observed density distribution or with the mass function but still marginally compatible with the inferred values of the invisible mass in form of both low mass stars or remnants of high mass stars in the cluster. Finally, we derive the cluster initial mass by computing the mass loss experienced by the cluster during its lifetime, and adopting the various estimates of the actual mass.

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