Evolutionary and structural properties of mirror star MACHOs     

Zurab Berezhiani  Paolo Ciarcelluti  Santi Cassisi  Adriano Pietrinferni   《Astroparticle Physics》2006,24(6):495-510

There can exist a hidden sector of the Universe in the form of parallel “mirror” world which has the same particle physics as the observable world and interacts with the latter only gravitationally. Big Bang nucleosynthesis bounds demand that the mirror sector should have a smaller temperature than the ordinary one. This implies that the mirror matter could play a role of dark matter, and in addition its chemical content should be dominated by helium. Here we study the evolutionary and structural properties of the mirror stars which essentially are similar to that of the ordinary stars but with higher helium contents. Being invisible in terms of photons, they could be observed only as MACHOs in the microlensing experiments. Using a numerical code, we compute evolution of stars with large helium abundances (Y = 0.30–0.80) and a wide range of masses, from 0.5 to 10 M. We found that helium dominated mirror star should have much faster evolutionary time (up to a factor 30) than the ordinary star with the same mass. In addition, we show the diagrams of luminosities, effective temperatures, central temperatures and densities, and compute the masses of the He-core at ignition and the minimum mass for carbon ignition, for different chemical compositions. The general conclusion is that mirror stars evolve faster as compared to ordinary ones, and explode earlier as type II supernovae, thus enriching the galactic halo of processed mirror gas with higher metallicity, with implications for MACHO observations and galaxy evolution.  相似文献   

Orientation dependency of broad-line widths in quasars and consequences for black hole mass estimation     

Matt J. Jarvis  Ross J. McLure 《Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society》2006,369(1):182-188

We have identified two new galaxies with gas counter-rotation (NGC 1596 and 3203) and have confirmed similar behaviour in another one (NGC 128), this using results from separate studies of the ionized-gas and stellar kinematics of a well-defined sample of 30 edge-on disc galaxies. Gas counter-rotators thus represent 10 ± 5 per cent of our sample, but the fraction climbs to 21 ± 11 per cent when only lenticular (S0) galaxies are considered and to 27 ± 13 per cent for S0 galaxies with detected ionized gas only. Those fractions are consistent with but slightly higher than previous studies. A compilation from well-defined studies of S0 galaxies in the literature yields fractions of 15 ± 4 and 23 ± 5 per cent, respectively. Although mainly based on circumstantial evidence, we argue that the counter-rotating gas originates primarily from minor mergers and tidally induced transfer of material from nearby objects. Assuming isotropic accretion, twice those fractions of objects must have undergone similar processes, underlining the importance of (minor) accretion for galaxy evolution. Applications of gas counter-rotators to barred galaxy dynamics are also discussed.  相似文献   

星系形成的半解析模型研究进展     

康熙 《天文学进展》2005,23(2):135-143

基于目前流行的冷暗物质等级成团理论的星系形成的半解析模型取得了很大进展．在引入一系列合理的关于重子物质物理过程的假设，如气体冷却、恒星形成率、超新星能量反馈以后，结合N体数值模拟，星系形成的半解析模型一方面能较成功地预言许多与观测符合的近邻星系的性质，如光度函数、星系的两点相关函数、Thlly-Fisher关系、星系团中椭圆星系的颜色一星等关系等；另一方面还能较成功地预言宇宙的恒星形成历史，以及一部分高红移星系的性质，如Lyman-Break星系的数目随红移的分布．但是最近一些观测表明，半解析模型在高红移预言的大质量星系较少，且红星系数目也较观测少．重点讨论半解析模型成功与不足之处，并指出解决这些问题可能的途径。  相似文献   

The host galaxies of radio-loud active galactic nuclei: mass dependences, gas cooling and active galactic nuclei feedback   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

P. N. Best  G. Kauffmann  T. M. Heckman  J. Brinchmann  S. Charlot  &#;. Ivezi&#;  S. D. M. White 《Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society》2005,362(1):25-40

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Implications for unified schemes from submillimetre and far-infrared follow-up of radio-selected samples     

Jennifer A. Grimes  Steve Rawlings  Chris J. Willott 《Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society》2005,359(4):1345-1355

We extend our previous analysis which used generalized luminosity functions (GLFs) to predict the number of quasars and galaxies in low-radio-frequency-selected samples as a function of redshift, radio luminosity, narrow-emission-line luminosity and type of unified scheme. Our extended analysis incorporates the observed submillimetre (850-μm) flux densities of radio sources, employs a new method which allows us to deal with non-detections, and focuses on the high-luminosity population. First, we conclude that the submillimetre luminosity L ₈₅₀ of low-frequency-selected radio sources is correlated with the bolometric luminosity L _bol of their quasar nuclei via an approximate scaling relation   L ₈₅₀∝ L ^0.7±0.2_bol  . Secondly, we conclude that there is quantitative evidence for a receding-torus-like physical process for the high-luminosity population within a two-population unified scheme for radio sources; this evidence comes from the fact that radio quasars are brighter in both narrow emission lines and submillimetre luminosity than radio galaxies matched in radio luminosity and redshift. Thirdly, we note that the combination of a receding-torus-like scheme and the assumption that the observed submillimetre emission is dominated by quasar-heated dust yields a scaling relation   L ₈₅₀∝ L ^1/2_bol  which is within the errors of that determined here for radio-selected quasars, and consistent with that inferred for radio-quiet quasars.  相似文献   

Satellites of simulated galaxies: survival, merging and their relationto the dark and stellar haloes     

Laura V. Sales  Julio F. Navarro †  Mario G. Abadi  Matthias Steinmetz 《Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society》2007,379(4):1464-1474

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A deeper search for the progenitor of the Type Ic supernova 2002ap     

R. M. Crockett  S. J. Smartt  J. J. Eldridge  S. Mattila  D. R. Young  A. Pastorello  J. R. Maund  C. R. Benn  I. Skillen 《Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society》2007,381(2):835-850

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Star cluster ecology – VII. The evolution of young dense star clusters containing primordial binaries     

Simon F. Portegies Zwart †  Stephen L. W. McMillan  Junichiro Makino 《Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society》2007,374(1):95-106

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致密对称源OQ208自行的研究     

王保田  张海燕 《天文研究与技术》2007,4(2):121-125

利用美国甚长基线阵,在5GHz和8GHz波段观测致密对称源(CSO)OQ208,由获得的总流量图均显示OQ208是由2个主要的射电结构组成。5GHz波段在该源西南(SW)部分和东北(NE)部分都探测到2个子源。8GHz波段在该源(SW)部分探测到2个子源,而在(NE)部分探测到3个子源。在5GHz波段,根据子源A和D自1993年到2001年间的5个时段VLBI观测成图结果,拟合出它们的分离速度为0.037±0.006mas/a(年)。在8GHz波段,根据1994年到2002年间的9个时段观测数据,获得子源A和C的分离速度为0.046±0.009mas/a。  相似文献   

低部主序恒星锂和铍的衰减     

熊大闰  邓李才 《天文学报》2007,48(2):165-180

根据化学非均匀恒星的非局部对流理论,计算了质量为0．7-1．15M(?)恒星主序演化模型锂和铍的衰减,并将理论和不同年龄疏散星团锂丰度的观测进行了比较．结果表明,贯穿对流混合能重现温度低于6400 K的晚型主序星锂丰度观测的一般性质．贯穿对流混合可能是晚型矮星锂衰减的一种重要机制．  相似文献