22 research outputs found

    models versus observations

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    Sterne entstehen im Inneren von turbulenten Molekülwolken, die unter dem Einfluss ihrer eigenen Gravitation fragmentieren und kollabieren. So entsteht ein Sternhaufen aus hundert oder mehr Objekten. Der Sternentstehungsprozess wird durch das Wechselspiel von Überschallturbulenz und Gravitation reguliert. In dieser Arbeit werden verschiedene Eigenschaften solcher Sternhaufen, die mit Hilfe von numerischen Simulationen modelliert wurden, untersucht und mit Beobachtungsdaten verglichen. Dabei handelt es sich sowohl um Eigenschaften einzelner Protosterne, als auch um statistische Parameter des Sternhaufens als Ganzes...thesi

    Massive stars reveal variations of the stellar initial mass function in the Milky Way stellar clusters

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    We investigate whether the stellar initial mass function (IMF) is universal, or whether it varies significantly among young stellar clusters in the Milky Way. We propose a method to uncover the range of variation of the parameters that describe the shape of the IMF for the population of young Galactic clusters. These parameters are the slopes in the low and high stellar mass regimes, γ\gamma and Γ\Gamma, respectively, and the characteristic mass, MchM_{ch}. The method relies exclusively on the high mass content of the clusters, but is able to yield information on the distributions of parameters that describe the IMF over the entire stellar mass range. This is achieved by comparing the fractions of single and lonely massive O stars in a recent catalog of the Milky Way clusters with a library of simulated clusters built with various distribution functions of the IMF parameters. The synthetic clusters are corrected for the effects of the binary population, stellar evolution, sample incompleteness, and ejected O stars. Our findings indicate that broad distributions of the IMF parameters are required in order to reproduce the fractions of single and lonely O stars in Galactic clusters. They also do not lend support to the existence of a cluster mass-maximum stellar mass relation. We propose a probabilistic formulation of the IMF whereby the parameters of the IMF are described by Gaussian distribution functions centered around γ=0.91\gamma=0.91, Γ=1.37\Gamma=1.37, and Mch=0.41M_{ch}=0.41 M_{\odot}, and with dispersions of σγ=0.25\sigma_{\gamma}=0.25, σΓ=0.60\sigma_{\Gamma}=0.60, and σMch=0.27\sigma_{M_{ch}}=0.27 M_{\odot} around these values.Comment: Accepted to MNRAS, 17 pages, 13 figures. Larger observational sample. Conclusions strengthene

    Open-Access-Zeitschriften: Schluss mit Paywalls

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    Wissenschaftliche Zeitschriften sind traditionell sehr teuer und für viele nicht zugänglich. Seit rund 20 Jahren versucht die Open-Access-Bewegung, wissenschaftliche Publikationen für alle kostenlos zugänglich und nachnutzbar zu machen. Rund 50 Prozent der Zeitschriftenartikel des Jahres 2020 sind durch Veröffentlichung in einer Open-Access-Zeitschrift oder auf anderem Weg frei verfügbar

    Publikationsmonitoring

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    Die systematische Erfassung und Dokumentation des Publikationsoutputs einer Einrichtung spielt in Zeiten einer vorwiegend quantitativ erfolgenden Bewertung von Forschungsleistungen eine immer wichtigere Rolle für viele Universitäten und Forschungseinrichtungen. Zusammen mit weiteren Parametern wie eingeworbenen Drittmitteln dienen Publikationsdaten nicht nur der Außendarstellung, sondern auch der internen Auswertung und Steuerung bis hin zur leistungsorientierten Mittelvergabe. Hochschulverwaltungen dienen die Daten zur Identifizierung von Handlungsbedarfen bei der Entwicklung von Fachbereichen und Instituten. Systematisch erfasste Publikationsdaten geben Aufschluss über Trends in der Forschung und, insbesondere im Zusammenhang mit Zitationsdaten, über Verbindungen zwischen unterschiedlichen Forschungsgebieten oder Einrichtungen

    Hierarchical Stellar Structures in the Local Group Dwarf Galaxy NGC 6822

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    We present a comprehensive study of the star cluster population and the hierarchical structure in the clustering of blue stars with ages <~ 500 Myr in the Local Group dwarf irregular galaxy NGC 6822. Our observational material comprises the most complete optical stellar catalog of the galaxy from imaging with the Suprime-Cam at the 8.2-m SUBARU Telescope. We identify 47 distinct star clusters with the application of the nearest-neighbor density method to this catalog for a detection threshold of 3sigma above the average stellar density. The size distribution of the detected clusters can be very well approximated by a Gaussian with a peak at ~ 68 pc. Their cluster mass function is fitted very well by a power-law with index alpha ~ 1.5 +/- 0.7, consistent with other Local Group galaxies and the cluster initial mass function. The application of the nearest-neighbor density method for various density thresholds, other than 3sigma, enabled the identification of stellar concentrations in various length-scales. The stellar density maps constructed with this technique provide a direct proof of hierarchically structured stellar concentrations in NGC 6822. We illustrate this hierarchy by the so-called "dendrogram" of the detected stellar structures, which demonstrates that most of the detected structures split up into several substructures over at least three levels. We quantify the hierarchy of these structures with the use of the minimum spanning tree method. The morphological hierarchy in stellar clustering, which we observe in NGC 6822 resembles that of the turbulent interstellar matter, suggesting that turbulence on pc- and kpc-scales has been probably the major agent that regulated clustered star formation in NGC 6822.Comment: 18 pages in ApJ two-column format, 13 figure

    The clustered nature of star formation. Pre--main-sequence clusters in the star-forming region NGC 602/N90 in the Small Magellanic Cloud

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    Located at the tip of the wing of the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC), the star-forming region NGC602/N90 is characterized by the HII nebular ring N90 and the young cluster of pre--main-sequence (PMS) and early-type main sequence stars NGC602. We present a thorough cluster analysis of the stellar sample identified with HST/ACS camera in the region. We show that apart from the central cluster, low-mass PMS stars are congregated in thirteen additional small compact sub-clusters at the periphery of NGC602. We find that the spatial distribution of the PMS stars is bimodal, with an unusually large fraction (~60%) of the total population being clustered, while the remaining is diffusely distributed in the inter-cluster area. From the corresponding color-magnitude diagrams we disentangle an age-difference of ~2.5Myr between NGC602 and the compact sub-clusters which appear younger. The diffuse PMS population appears to host stars as old as those in NGC602. Almost all detected PMS sub-clusters appear to be centrally concentrated. When the complete PMS stellar sample, including both clustered and diffused stars, is considered in our cluster analysis, it appears as a single centrally concentrated stellar agglomeration, covering the whole central area of the region. Considering also the hot massive stars of the system, we find evidence that this agglomeration is hierarchically structured. Based on our findings we propose a scenario, according to which the region NGC602/N90 experiences an active clustered star formation for the last ~5Myr. The central cluster NGC602 was formed first and rapidly started dissolving into its immediate ambient environment, possibly ejecting also massive stars found away from its center. Star formation continued in sub-clusters of a larger stellar agglomeration, introducing an age-spread of the order of 2.5Myr among the PMS populations.Comment: Accepted for publication by The Astrophysical Journal. 14 pages, 11 figures, 1 table, 2-columns forma
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