Mass segregation in the hyades cluster
Mass segregation in the hyades cluster
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毕星团星团中的质量偏析
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发表时间:
2022
影响因子:
4.8
通讯作者:
Semyeong Oh
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作者:
N. Evans;Semyeong Oh
Using the Gaia colour-magnitude diagram, we assign masses to a catalogue of 979 confirmed members of the Hyades cluster and tails. By fitting the cumulative mass profile, stars within the tidal radius have a Plummer-like profile with half-mass radius rh of 5.75 pc. The tails are extended with rh = 69.35 pc and fall off more slowly than Plummer with density proportional to distance−1.36. The cluster stars are separated into two groups at BP-RP =2 or 0.56M⊙ to give a high mass (${ar{M}} = 0.95 M_odot$) and a low mass (${ar{M}} = 0.32 M_odot$) population. We show that: (i) the high mass population has a half-mass radius rh of 4.88 pc, whilst the low mass population has rh = 8.10 pc; (ii) despite the differences in spatial extent, the kinematics and binarity properties of the high and low mass populations are similar. They have isotropic velocity ellipsoids with mean 1d velocity dispersions σ of 0.427 and 0.415 km s−1 respectively. The dynamical state of the Hyades is far from energy equipartition ($sigma propto {ar{M}}^{-1/2}$). We identify a new mass segregation instability for clusters with escape speed V. Populations with $V/sigma lesssim 2sqrt{2}$ can never attain thermal equilibrium and equipartition. This regime encompasses many Galactic open and globular clusters. For the Hyades, there must be an outward energy flux of at least 9.5 × 10−4M⊙ km2 s−2Myr−1 to maintain its current configuration. The present mass loss of 0.26M⊙Myr−1 due to tidal stripping by itself implies a substantial energy flow beyond the required magnitude.