scholarly journals Globular Clusters within Dark Matter Halos: Case Studies of 47 Tuc, NGC 1851 and M 15

2015 ◽  
Vol 12 (S316) ◽  
pp. 336-337
Author(s):  
Joowon Lee ◽  
Jihye Shin ◽  
Sungsoo S. Kim

AbstractGlobular clusters (GCs) are known to have a very small amount of or no dark matter (DM). Even if GCs are formed in individual DM halos, they must have lost the majority of the DM through dynamical processes such as mass segregation or tidal stripping. Using Fokker-Planck (FP) calculations, we investigate the dynamical evolution of three Galactic GCs with an assumption that they were formed in mini DM halos. We trace the amount of DM of 47 Tuc, NGC 1851, and M 15, which are a ‘disk/bulge’ cluster, an ‘old halo’ cluster, and a ‘young halo’ cluster, respectively. We find that these three GCs must have initially had insignificant amounts of DM, less than 10 percent of the initial stellar mass of each cluster.

2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (S356) ◽  
pp. 226-226
Author(s):  
Viola Allevato

AbstractThe presence of a super massive BH in almost all galaxies in the Universe is an accepted paradigm in astronomy. How these BHs form and how they co-evolve with the host galaxy is one of the most intriguing unanswered problems in modern Cosmology and of extreme relevance to understand the issue of galaxy formation. Clustering measurements can powerfully test theoretical model predictions of BH triggering scenarios and put constraints on the typical environment where AGN live in, through the connection with their host dark matter halos. In this talk, I will present some recent results on the AGN clustering dependence on host galaxy properties, such as galaxy stellar mass, star formation rate and specific BH accretion rate, based on X-ray selected Chandra COSMOS Legacy Type 2 AGN. We found no significant AGN clustering dependence on galaxy stellar mass and specif BHAR for Type 2 COSMOS AGN at mean z ∼ 1.1, with a stellar - halo mass relation flatter than predicted for non active galaxies in the Mstar range probed by our sample. We also observed a negative clustering dependence on SFR, with AGN hosting halo mass increasing with decreasing SFR. Mock catalogs of active galaxies in hosting dark matter halos with logMh[Msun] > 12.5, matched to have the same X-ray luminosity, stellar mass and BHAR of COSMOS AGN predict the observed Mstar - Mh, BHAR - Mh and SFR-Mh relations, at z ∼ 1.


1985 ◽  
Vol 113 ◽  
pp. 139-160 ◽  
Author(s):  
Douglas C. Heggie

This review describes work on the evolution of a stellar system during the phase which starts at the end of core collapse. It begins with an account of the models of Hénon, Goodman, and Inagaki and Lynden-Bell, as well as evaporative models, and modifications to these models which are needed in the core. Next, these models are related to more detailed numerical calculations of gaseous models, Fokker-Planck models, N-body calculations, etc., and some problems for further work in these directions are outlined. The review concludes with a discussion of the relation between theoretical models and observations of the surface density profiles and statistics of actual globular clusters.


2005 ◽  
Vol 619 (1) ◽  
pp. 258-269 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sergey Mashchenko ◽  
Alison Sills

2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (S351) ◽  
pp. 395-399 ◽  
Author(s):  
Abbas Askar ◽  
Mirek Giersz ◽  
Manuel Arca Sedda ◽  
Ammar Askar ◽  
Mario Pasquato ◽  
...  

AbstractSizeable number of stellar-mass black holes (BHs) in globular clusters (GCs) can strongly influence the dynamical evolution and observational properties of their host cluster. Using results from a large set of numerical simulations, we identify the key ingredients needed to sustain a sizeable population of BHs in GCs up to a Hubble time. We find that while BH natal kick prescriptions are essential in determining the initial retention fraction of BHs in GCs, the long-term survival of BHs is determined by the size, initial central density and half-mass relaxation time of the GC. Simulated GC models that contain many BHs are characterized by relatively low central surface brightness, large half-light and core radii values. We also discuss novel ways to compare simulated results with available observational data to identify GCs that are most likely to contain many BHs.


2011 ◽  
Vol 741 (2) ◽  
pp. 72 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charlie Conroy ◽  
Abraham Loeb ◽  
David N. Spergel

2019 ◽  
Vol 488 (3) ◽  
pp. 2977-2988 ◽  
Author(s):  
M D A Orkney ◽  
J I Read ◽  
J A Petts ◽  
M Gieles

Abstract Bursty star formation in dwarf galaxies can slowly transform a steep dark matter cusp into a constant density core. We explore the possibility that globular clusters (GCs) retain a dynamical memory of this transformation. To test this, we use the nbody6df code to simulate the dynamical evolution of GCs, including stellar evolution, orbiting in static and time-varying potentials for a Hubble time. We find that GCs orbiting within a cored dark matter halo, or within a halo that has undergone a cusp-core transformation, grow to a size that is substantially larger (Reff > 10 pc) than those in a static cusped dark matter halo. They also produce much less tidal debris. We find that the cleanest signal of an historic cusp-core transformation is the presence of large GCs with tidal debris. However, the effect is small and will be challenging to observe in real galaxies. Finally, we qualitatively compare our simulated GCs with the observed GC populations in the Fornax, NGC 6822, IKN, and Sagittarius dwarf galaxies. We find that the GCs in these dwarf galaxies are systematically larger (〈Reff〉 ≃ 7.8 pc), and have substantially more scatter in their sizes than in situ metal-rich GCs in the Milky Way and young massive star clusters forming in M83 (〈Reff〉 ≃ 2.5 pc). We show that the size, scatter, and survival of GCs in dwarf galaxies are all consistent with them having evolved in a constant density core, or a potential that has undergone a cusp-core transformation, but not in a dark matter cusp.


2006 ◽  
Vol 640 (1) ◽  
pp. 22-30 ◽  
Author(s):  
Takayuki R. Saitoh ◽  
Jin Koda ◽  
Takashi Okamoto ◽  
Keiichi Wada ◽  
Asao Habe

2000 ◽  
Vol 174 ◽  
pp. 360-372 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jaan Einasto ◽  
Maret Einasto

AbstractWe compare the characteristics of stellar populations with those of dark halos. Dark matter around galaxies, and in groups, clusters and voids is discussed. Modern data suggest that the overall density of matter in the Universe is ΩM = 0.3 ± 0.1, about 80 % of this matter is nonbaryonic dark matter, and about 20 % is baryonic, mostly in the form of hot intra-cluster and intragroup gas, the rest in stellar populations of galaxies. All bright galaxies are surrounded by dark matter halos of external radii 200 − 300 kpc; halos consist mostly of non-baryonic matter with some mixture of hot gas. The Universe is dominated by dark energy (cosmological constant) term. Dark matter dominates in the dynamical evolution of galaxies in groups and clusters.


2009 ◽  
Vol 5 (S266) ◽  
pp. 81-86
Author(s):  
Guido De Marchi ◽  
Francesco Paresce ◽  
Simon Portegies Zwart

AbstractWe show that we can obtain a good fit to the present-day stellar-mass functions of a large sample of young and old Galactic clusters with a tapered Salpeter power-law distribution function with an exponential truncation of the form dN/dm ∝ mα [1 − exp(−m/mc)β]. The average value of the power-law index α is ~−2.2, very close to the Salpeter value of −2.3, while the characteristic mass, mc, is in the range 0.1–0.6M⊙ and does not seem to vary in any systematic way with the present cluster parameters such as metal abundance, total cluster mass or central concentration. However, the characteristic mass shows a remarkable correlation with the dynamical age of the cluster, namely mc/M⊙ ≃ 0.15 + 0.5 × t3/4dyn, where tdyn is the dynamical time, taken as the ratio of cluster age and dissolution time. The small scatter around this correlation is likely due to uncertainties on the estimated value of tdyn. We attribute the observed trend to the onset of mass segregation through two-body relaxation in a tidal environment, causing preferential loss of low-mass stars from the cluster and hence a drift of the characteristic mass towards higher values. If dynamical evolution is indeed at the origin of the observed trend, it seems plausible that globular clusters, now with mc ≃ 0.35M⊙, were born with a stellar mass function very similar to that measured today in the youngest Galactic clusters and with a value of mc around 0.15 M⊙. This is consistent with the absence of a turn-over in the mass function of the Galactic bulge down to the observational limit at ~0.2M⊙ and argues for the universality of the initial mass function of Population I and II stars.


2009 ◽  
Vol 5 (S262) ◽  
pp. 244-247
Author(s):  
Michael J. I. Brown ◽  

AbstractIn cold dark matter cosmologies, the most massive dark matter halos are predicted to undergo rapid growth at z < 1. While there is the expectation that massive galaxies will also rapidly grow via merging, recent observational studies conclude that the stellar masses of the most massive galaxies grow by just ~ 30% at z < 1. We have used the observed space density and clustering of z < 1 red galaxies in Boötes to determine how these galaxies populate dark matter halos. In the most massive dark matter halos, central galaxy stellar mass is proportional to halo mass to the power of a ~1/3 and much of the stellar mass resides within satellite galaxies. As a consequence, the most massive galaxies grow slowly even though they reside within rapidly growing dark matter halos.


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