Gas Accretion by Globular Clusters and Nucleated Dwarf Galaxies and the Formation of the Arches and Quintuplet Clusters

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2007-03-30

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0703807v1

Astrophys.J.661:779-786,2007

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

21 pages, 1 figure, to appear in The Astrophysical Journal

Scientific paper

10.1086/515387

We consider here the collective accretion of gas by globular clusters and dwarf galaxies moving through the interstellar medium. In the limit of high velocity and/or sound speed of the ISM, the collective potential of the cluster is insufficient to accrete significant amounts of gas, and stars within the systems accrete gas individually. We show, however, that when the sound speed or the relative velocity of the ambient medium is less than the central velocity dispersion of the cluster, it is accreted into the collective potential of the cluster prior to being accreted onto the individual stars within the cluster. The collective rate is strongly enhanced relative to the individual rates. This effect may potentially modify the white dwarf cooling sequence in globular clusters with low-inclination and low-eccentricity Galactic orbits, and lead to the rejuvenation of some marginally surviving cores of globular clusters and nucleated dwarf galaxies near the Galactic center. Such effects will only occur rarely, but may explain the existence of clusters of young, massive stars near the Galactic center.

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