Influence of a stellar cusp on the dynamics of young stellar discs and the origin of the S‐stars in the Galactic Centre
Influence of a stellar cusp on the dynamics of young stellar discs and the origin of the S‐stars in the Galactic Centre
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恒星尖点对年轻恒星盘动力学的影响以及银河系中心 Sâstars 的起源
DOI:
10.1111/j.1365-2966.2009.15157.x
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发表时间:
2009
影响因子:
4.8
通讯作者:
Kroupa
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作者:
Löckmann;Baumgardt;Kroupa
Observations of the Galactic Centre show evidence of one or two disc-like structures of very young stars orbiting the central supermassive black hole within a distance of a few 0.1 pc. A number of analyses have been carried out to investigate the dynamical behaviour and consequences of these discs, including disc thickness and eccentricity growth as well as mutual interaction and warping. However, most of these studies have neglected the influence of the stellar cusp surrounding the black hole, which is believed to be one to two orders of magnitude more massive than the disc(s).By means ofN-body integrations using ourbhintcode, we study the impact of stellar cusps of different compositions. We find that although the presence of a cusp does have an important effect on the evolution of an otherwise isolated flat disc, its influence on the evolution of disc thickness and warping is rather mild in a two-disc configuration. However, we show that the creation of highly eccentric orbits strongly depends on the graininess of the cusp (i.e. the mean and maximum stellar masses). While Chang recently found that full cycles of Kozai resonance are prevented by the presence of an analytic cusp, we show that relaxation processes play an important role in such highly dense regions and support short-term resonances. We thus find that young disc stars on initially circular orbits can achieve high eccentricities by resonant effects also in the presence of a cusp of stellar remnants, yielding a mechanism to create S-stars and hypervelocity stars.Furthermore, we discuss the underlying initial mass function (IMF) of the young stellar discs and find no definite evidence for a non-canonical IMF.
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DOI:
10.1086/591734
发表时间:
2008-07
期刊:
The Astrophysical Journal Letters
影响因子:
--
作者:
Ulf Löckmann;H. Baumgardt;P. Kroupa
通讯作者:
Ulf Löckmann;H. Baumgardt;P. Kroupa
DOI:
10.1088/0004-637x/697/1/l44
发表时间:
2008-12
期刊:
The Astrophysical Journal
影响因子:
--
作者:
A. Madigan;Y. Levin;Clovis Hopman
通讯作者:
A. Madigan;Y. Levin;Clovis Hopman
DOI:
--
发表时间:
2008
期刊:
影响因子:
--
作者:
P. Chang
通讯作者:
P. Chang
DOI:
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发表时间:
2006
期刊:
影响因子:
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作者:
Jessica R. Lu;A. Ghez;S. Hornstein;M. Morris;K. Matthews;David H. Thompson;E. Becklin
通讯作者:
E. Becklin
DOI:
10.1086/425139
发表时间:
2004
期刊:
The Astrophysical Journal Letters
影响因子:
--
作者:
M. Preto;D. Merritt;R. Spurzem
通讯作者:
R. Spurzem