On the trapping of stars by a newborn stellar supercluster

Details On the trapping of stars by a newborn stellar supercluster On the trapping of stars by a newborn stellar supercluster

2009-02-17

arxiv.org/abs/0902.3018v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics

6 pages, 3 figures. Submitted to MNRAS

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Numerical experiments conducted by Fellhauer et al. (MNRAS, 372, 338, 2006) suggest that a supercluster may capture up to about 40 per cent of its mass from the galaxy where it belongs. Nevertheless, in those experiments the cluster was created making appear its mass out of nothing, rather than from mass already present in the galaxy. Here we use a thought experiment, plus a few simple computations, to show that the difference between the dynamical effects of these two scenarios (i.e., mass creation vs. mass concentration) is actually very important. We also present the results of new numerical experiments, simulating the formation of the cluster through mass concentration, that show that trapping depends critically on the process of cluster formation and that the amounts of gained mass are substantially smaller than those obtained from mass creation.

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