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arXiv 2006.01690astro-ph.GA
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盖亚星系盘中的星团年龄函数DR2:老星团少,团簇形成效率低

The star cluster age function in the Galactic disc with Gaia DR2: Fewer old clusters and a low cluster formation efficiency

Friedrich Anders, Tristan Cantat-Gaudin, Irene Quadrino-Lodoso, Mark Gieles, Carme Jordi, Alfred Castro-Ginard, Lola Balaguer-Núñez

摘要:

我们对银河系疏散星团的年龄分布进行了系统的再分析。使用目录的均匀确定年龄的834个疏散星团包含在一个2千秒差距的圆柱体周围的太阳和特点与天体测量和光度数据从盖亚卫星,我们发现,有必要修改早期的作品,依赖于银河系星团调查的数据。在为我们的样本建立了年龄相关的完整性限制后,我们发现在$6.5 < \log t<10$范围内的聚类年龄函数与Schechter型或破幂律函数兼容,其参数由MCMC拟合确定。我们的最佳拟合值表明,相对于过去五年获得的结果,年龄函数的下降较早(下降了$2-3$的一个因子),相反,与21世纪初获得的结果和盘内星团的射电观测结果更加一致。此外,我们还发现了$10^4\, {\rm M}_{\odot}$星系团的典型的$\sim1.5$陀螺毁灭时标和现今的星系团形成速率为$0.55_{-0.15}^{+0.19}$ Myr $^{-1}$ kpc $^{-2}$,这表明在太阳附近诞生的恒星中只有$16_{-8}^{+11}$ \%形成束缚星系团.现在需要精确的星团质量测量,以更精确地限制开星团的形成和演化模型。

英文摘要:

We perform a systematic reanalysis of the age distribution of Galactic open star clusters. Using a catalogue of homogeneously determined ages for 834 open clusters contained in a 2 kpc cylinder around the Sun and characterised with astrometric and photometric data from the Gaia satellite, we find that it is necessary to revise earlier works that relied on data from the Milky Way Star Cluster survey. After establishing age-dependent completeness limits for our sample, we find that the cluster age function in the range $6.5 < \log t<10$ is compatible with a Schechter-type or broken power-law function, whose parameters we determine by MCMC fitting. Our best-fit values indicate an earlier drop of the age function (by a factor of $2-3$) with respect to the results obtained in the last five years, and are instead more compatible with results obtained in the early 2000s and radio observations of inner-disc clusters. Furthermore, we find a typical destruction time-scale of $\sim1.5$ Gyr for a $10^4\, {\rm M}_{\odot}$ cluster and a present-day cluster-formation rate of $0.55_{-0.15}^{+0.19}$ Myr$^{-1}$kpc$^{-2}$, suggesting that only $16_{-8}^{+11}$ \% of all stars born in the solar neighbourhood form in bound clusters. Accurate cluster-mass measurements are now needed to place more precise constraints on open-cluster formation and evolution models.

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