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Milky Way中Globulettes的历史

History of Globulettes in the Milky Way

Tiia Grenman, Erik Elfgren, Hans Weber

摘要:

小球状体是小的(半径为$< 10$ kAU)黑暗的尘埃云,在明亮的星云背景下可见。大多数天体都有行星质量。这些天体可能是星系中褐矮星和自由浮动行星质量天体的来源。在这篇论文中,我们将研究银河系中可能形成了多少小球状体,以及它们如何对自由浮动行星的总人口做出贡献。为了做到这一点,我们检查27个H~II区域的H-α图像。在这些图像中,我们发现了778个小球状体。我们发现形成的小球数目的一个保守值是$5.7\times 10^{10}$。如果10%的小球状体形成自由漂浮的行星,那么它们就贡献了银河系中的$5.7\times 10^{9}$自由漂浮的行星。一个不太保守的小球状体数量意味着小球状体可能会贡献$2.0\times 10^{10}$自由漂浮的行星。因此,小球状体可能是银河系中自由漂浮行星的不可忽视的来源。

英文摘要:

Globulettes are small (radii $< 10$ kAU) dark dust clouds, seen against the background of bright nebulae. A majority of the objects have planetary mass. These objects may be a source of brown dwarfs and free floating planetary mass objects in the galaxy. In this paper we investigate how many globulettes could have formed in the Milky Way and how they could contribute to the total population of free floating planets. In order to do that we examine H-alpha images of 27 H~II regions. In these images, we find 778 globulettes. We find that a conservative value of the number of globulettes formed is $5.7\times 10^{10}$. If 10 \% of the globulettes form free floating planets then they have contributed with $5.7\times 10^{9}$ free floating planets in the Milky Way. A less conservative number of globulettes would mean that the globulettes could contribute $2.0\times 10^{10}$ free floating planets. Thus the globulettes could represent a non-negligible source of free floating planets in the Milky Way.

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