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arXiv 2012.07831astro-ph.GA
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M83中年轻星团的初始性质

The Initial Properties of Young Star Clusters in M83

Jeremy J. Webb, Alison Sills

摘要:

大质量星团的初始大小和质量提供了关于团簇形成过程的信息,也决定了团簇人口如何被修改和破坏,这对使用团簇作为星系组装的示踪剂有影响。年轻的大质量星系团通常被假定自团簇形成以来没有变化,因此它们的质量和半径分布被用作初始值。然而,星系团演化的最初几亿年确实通过内部和外部过程改变了星系团的质量和半径。在本文中,我们使用一个大的套件$N$体集群模拟在适当的潮汐场,以确定最佳的初始质量和初始大小分布的年轻星系团在附近的星系M83。我们发现初始质量遵循幂律分布,斜率为-2.7 $\pm$ 0.4,半质量半径遵循对数正态分布,平均值为2.57 $\pm$ 0.04 pc,分散度为1.59 $\pm$ 0.01 pc。相应的初始投影半光半径函数的平均值为2.7 $\pm$ 0.3 pc,色散为1.7 $\pm$ 0.2 pc。初始质量和大小分布函数的演化与恒星演化引起的质量损失和膨胀一致,与外部潮汐场和星团的初始密度分布无关。观测到的星团大小和质量不应该被用作初始值,即使星团只有几亿年的历史。

英文摘要:

The initial sizes and masses of massive star clusters provide information about the cluster formation process and also determine how cluster populations are modified and destroyed, which have implications for using clusters as tracers of galaxy assembly. Young massive cluster populations are often assumed to be unchanged since cluster formation, and therefore their distribution of masses and radii are used as the initial values. However, the first few hundred million years of cluster evolution does change both cluster mass and cluster radius, through both internal and external processes. In this paper, we use a large suite of $N$-body cluster simulations in an appropriate tidal field to determine the best initial mass and initial size distributions of young clusters in the nearby galaxy M83. We find that the initial masses follow a power-law distribution with a slope of -2.7 $\pm$ 0.4, and the half-mass radii follow a log-normal distribution with a mean of 2.57 $\pm$ 0.04 pc and a dispersion of 1.59 $\pm$ 0.01 pc. The corresponding initial projected half-light radius function has a mean of 2.7 $\pm$ 0.3 pc and a dispersion of 1.7 $\pm$ 0.2 pc. The evolution of the initial mass and size distribution functions are consistent with mass loss and expansion due to stellar evolution, independent of the external tidal field and the cluster's initial density profile. Observed cluster sizes and masses should not be used as the initial values, even when clusters are only a few hundred million years old.

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