Bibcode
Paust, Nathaniel E. Q.; Reid, I. Neill; Piotto, Giampaolo; Aparicio, A.; Anderson, Jay; Sarajedini, Ata; Bedin, Luigi R.; Chaboyer, Brian; Dotter, Aaron; Hempel, Maren; Majewski, Steven; Marín-Franch, A.; Milone, Antonino; Rosenberg, A.; Siegel, Michael
Referencia bibliográfica
The Astronomical Journal, Volume 139, Issue 2, pp. 476-491 (2010).
Fecha de publicación:
2
2010
Número de citas
90
Número de citas referidas
87
Descripción
We have used observations obtained as part of the Hubble Space
Telescope/ACS Survey of Galactic Globular Clusters to construct global
present-day mass functions for 17 globular clusters utilizing multi-mass
King models to extrapolate from our observations to the global cluster
behavior. The global present-day mass functions for these clusters are
well matched by power laws from the turnoff, ≈0.8 M sun,
to 0.2-0.3 M sun on the lower main sequence. The slopes of
those power-law fits, α, have been correlated with an extensive
set of intrinsic and extrinsic cluster properties to investigate which
parameters may influence the form of the present-day mass function. We
do not confirm previous suggestions of correlations between α and
either metallicity or Galactic location. However, we do find a strong
statistical correlation with the related parameters central surface
brightness, μ V , and inferred central density,
ρ0. The correlation is such that clusters with denser
cores (stronger binding energy) tend to have steeper mass functions (a
higher proportion of low-mass stars), suggesting that dynamical
evolution due to external interactions may have played a key role in
determining α. Thus, the present-day mass function may owe more to
nurture than to nature. Detailed modeling of external dynamical effects
is therefore a requisite for determining the initial mass function for
Galactic globular clusters.
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