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质量不大的星团中的超大质量恒星

Very massive stars in not so massive clusters

Seungkyung Oh, Pavel Kroupa

摘要:

银河系中非常年轻的星团在它们的最大恒星质量m_max和它们在恒星中的质量M_ecl之间表现出一个明确的关系。最近的一项研究表明,年轻的中等质量星团VVV CL 041可能拥有一颗大于80 Msun的恒星WR 62 -2,这似乎违反了m_max-M_ecl关系的存在,因为该恒星的质量几乎是该关系预期的两倍。通过对与VVV CL 041(3000 Msun)质量相同的N体直接计算,我们研究了在一个初始满足m_max-M_ecl关系的富双星星团中,是否可以通过动力学诱导的恒星碰撞形成这样一颗超大质量恒星。100个星团中有8个通过多次恒星碰撞形成质量超过80 Msun的恒星。这表明VVV CL 041星系团可能因为其早期的动力学演化而成为这种关系的异常值,即使该星系团在出生时遵循这种关系。我们发现,超过一半的我们的模型集群主机的合并产品作为其最大的成员在第一个500万年的集群进化。因此,尽管m_max-M_ecl关系是正确的,但由于动力学过程的原因,在一些年轻的星团中可能存在质量大于m_max-M_ecl关系的恒星。我们简要地讨论了在我们的模型中的二元种群的演化。

英文摘要:

Very young star clusters in the Milky Way exhibit a well-defined relation between their maximum stellar mass, m_max, and their mass in stars, M_ecl. A recent study shows that the young intermediate-mass star cluster VVV CL041 possibly hosts a >80 Msun star, WR62-2, which appears to violate the existence of the m_max-M_ecl relation since the mass of the star is almost two times higher than that expected from the relation. By performing direct N-body calculations with the same mass as the cluster VVV CL041 (3000 Msun), we study whether such a very massive star can be formed via dynamically induced stellar collisions in a binary-rich star cluster that initially follows the m_max-M_ecl relation. Eight out of 100 clusters form a star more massive than 80 Msun through multiple stellar collisions. This suggests that the VVV CL041 cluster may have become an outlier of the relation because of its early-dynamical evolution, even if the cluster followed the relation at birth. We find that more than half of our model clusters host a merger product as its most massive member within the first 5 Myr of cluster evolution. Thus, the existence of stars more massive than the m_max-M_ecl relation in some young clusters is expected due to dynamical processes despite the validity of the m_max-M_ecl relation. We briefly discuss evolution of binary populations in our model.

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