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arXiv 1807.01447astro-ph.GA
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球状星团中团簇的自富集模型

A Model for Clumpy Self-Enrichment in Globular Clusters

Jeremy Bailin

摘要:

对球状星团(GCs)的详细观测揭示了自富集的证据:我们今天在恒星中看到的一些重元素是由星团恒星本身产生的。此外,GC内部的子种群具有不同的元素丰度,包括在某些情况下,由超新星产生的元素,如铁。本文提出了一个GC形成的理论模型,其动机是对银河系恒星形成区的观测和对恒星形成的模拟,其中巨大的分子云碎片成多个团块,这些团块在略微不同的时间进行恒星形成。来自早期形成的星团的核心坍缩超新星可以丰富后来形成的星团,使喷出物可以保留在引力势阱中,从而导致一旦星团合并形成最终的星团,就会产生具有不同总金属丰度的亚群。该模型匹配的质量金属丰度的关系,在GC人口周围的大规模椭圆星系,并预测金属丰度的传播与银河系GC中看到的非常一致的集群内,即使对于那些内部丰度的传播是如此之大,他们的整个身份作为GC的问题。内部金属丰度分布是一个很好的测量有多少自富集发生在一个集群,一个结果是非常强大的模型参数的变化。

英文摘要:

Detailed observations of globular clusters (GCs) have revealed evidence of self-enrichment: some of the heavy elements that we see in stars today were produced by cluster stars themselves. Moreover, GCs have internal subpopulations with different elemental abundances, including, in some cases, in elements such as iron that are produced by supernovae. This paper presents a theoretical model for GC formation motivated by observations of Milky Way star forming regions and simulations of star formation, where giant molecular clouds fragment into multiple clumps which undergo star formation at slightly different times. Core collapse supernovae from earlier-forming clumps can enrich later-forming clumps to the degree that the ejecta can be retained within the gravitational potential well, resulting in subpopulations with different total metallicities once the clumps merge to form the final cluster. The model matches the mass-metallicity relation seen in GC populations around massive elliptical galaxies, and predicts metallicity spreads within clusters in excellent agreement with those seen in Milky Way GCs, even for those whose internal abundance spreads are so large that their entire identity as a GC is in question. The internal metallicity spread serves as an excellent measurement of how much self-enrichment has occurred in a cluster, a result that is very robust to variation in the model parameters.

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