致密星团的分层效应及其形成机制

老年球状星团和年轻的超星团是两类不同性质的致密星团,观测表明它们都表现出某种程度的质量分层效应.该文在介绍这两类星团质量分层的探测途径和观测表象的基础上,对形成这种分层效应的两种可能的机制--动力学分层和原初分层做了简要的讨论和评述.     

球状星团致密度及其演化

根据球状星团动力学演化理论,本文探讨了球状星团致密度的演化与球状星用质量和位置的关系。结果表明,银心距和球状星团质量都与致密度的演化紧密相关。一般来说,银心距很大时致密度演化极少,球状星团质量愈大致密度演化愈缓慢。对现有球状星团致密度的分布作了统计研究,结果表明,在银心距较小的区域,致密度的分布与理论分析结果一致。在大银心距处发现,质量不同的球状星团其致密度分布有明显不同,它可能反映了球状星团形成阶段其致密度与质量紧密相关。     

OB星协和年轻星团的形成与早期演化

ＯＢ星协和年轻星团是恒星形成与早期演化的“化石”，同时也是研究初始重质量函数（ＩＭＦ）的最好场所；文中就ＯＢ星协和年轻星团的形成和早期演化方面的研究进展作了一评述，还论述了ＩＭＦ的测定和研究情况，并对相关的速逃ＯＢ星及蓝离散星问题作了简要介绍。     

球状星团的天体测量

球状星团是银河系中最年老的天体之一，是储存着银河系早期演化珍贵信息的“化石”。球状星团的天体测量，主要包括球状星团天区内恒星相对自行的测定，并由这些相对自行数据采用适当方法定出星团的绝对自行，或者直接测定绝对自行。利用这些自行数据，或者进一步与测光和视向速度数据结合，可以开展与球状星团的距离、运动、动力学状况、质量、年龄、演化等等以及银河系的结构和演化等有关的一系列重要的研究。在本文中对本世纪７０     

球状星团的形成与演化（Ⅰ）：观测特征

对与球状星团形成与演化有关的观测特征进行了总结，分别从球产太星团的空间分布特征、金属度分布特征、光度函数和质量函数，以及不同星系中球状星团的数量特征等方面介绍了银河系和河外星系中球状星团的最新观测事实。     

疏散星团M11的维里质量

对疏散星团进行统计研究时,场星的混淆可能是一个严重问题,必须认真对待。本文详细讨论了在估算疏散星团维里(Virial)质量时,正确利用成员概率的重要性。分析表明,只有利用大概率的成员星才能得到合理的星团Virial质量。重新计算后M11的Virial质量为5094μ_⊙,与直接观测到的光度质量的最新结果(4671μ_⊙)符合得很好,维里系数为0.9。     

金属丰度对球状星团动力学演化的影响

动力学过程和恒星演化及二者的互相影响都会对球状星团的演化产生重要影响.由于金属丰度会影响恒星的演化轨迹,与之相伴随的恒星质量损失率的变化也会对球状星团的动力学过程造成影响.通过一系列N体模拟研究金属丰度对球状星团的质量损失率、半径等的影响,并分析其原因,同时研究了大质量恒星以及星团初始数密度分布的影响.模拟中采用的球状星团模型初始成员星数目N=50000,运行于类银河系的引力势中并考虑成员星的演化.结果显示,由于低金属丰度恒星拥有较快的演化时标,所以贫金属球状星团在早期会拥有较高的质量损失,但与此同时它们的核塌缩时间会比后者显著推迟,因此在核塌缩之后其质量损失会被富金属星团反超.另外由于大质量恒星演化导致的质量损失较大,所以大质量星的存在会使金属丰度更加显著地影响球状星团早期的扩张以及随后的核塌缩过程,同时星团的初始数密度分布也对该效应有着不可忽视的影响.     

疏散星团的最新研究进展

疏散星团在天文学和天体物理学研究中有着多方面的重要性。近年来在观测和理论工作上都取得了显著的进展。综述了疏散星团的研究现状，对成员判别、基本参数确定、团与恒星的演化、团的结构和动力学进行了详细评述。     

老年疏散星团的金属丰度及银盘金属丰度梯度演化研究

疏散星团是探究银河系结构与演化的良好示踪体,一直以来颇受关注.之前关于疏散星团的研究中,仅有一小部分疏散星团有金属丰度参数,而且,金属丰度的测量,是基于不同质量的观测数据,采用了不同的方法.收集了一个年龄大于2 Gyr的老年疏散星团样本,通过整理这些星团成员星的金属丰度数据,一方面,以星团NGC 2682为例,对比了不同光谱巡天项目给出的星团成员星金属丰度的系统差异;另一方面,计算了星团成员星金属丰度的平均值和中位值,作为该疏散星团的金属丰度推荐值.此外,还利用该样本探究了银盘径向金属丰度梯度随时间的演化,结果表明,早期银盘有着更加陡峭的径向金属丰度梯度,随着演化时间的增加,银盘径向金属丰度梯度逐渐趋于平缓,为银盘化学演化模型提供了更加严格的观测约束.     

疏散星团的质量分层

对疏散星团质量分层的有关问题做了简要的评述,包括空间质量分层和速度质量分层的表现形式和探测途径,质量分层形成机制的研究现状.最后概要介绍了2MASS测光资料对探讨疏散星团质量分层效应的作用.     

History of Star Formation of the Galaxy Cluster Abell 85

Abell 85 is a cD galaxy cluster in the southern hemisphere and has a redshift of 0.055. Based on the spectra of 242 member galaxies provided by the Sloan spectral survey data, using the stellar population constituents and star formation history of these member galaxies obtained from the population synthesis software STARLIGHT, we study the regularities of the variations of star formation properties of galaxies (such as the ages, metal abundances and star formation rates of the characteristic stellar populations) with the local surface density of galaxies. As revealed by the results, the galaxies situated in the highdensity environments of the central region of the cluster possess higher population ages and metal abundances, and their rates of star formation are rather low, the recent activities of star formation are obviously suppressed. Besides, the correlations of the galaxy metal abundance and speci?c star formation rate with the stellar mass are asserted.     

Luminosity Function of the Cluster of Galaxies Abell 566

We investigate the Luminosity Function(LF)of the cluster of galaxies Abell 566.The photometric data of 15 intermediate-bands are obtained from the Beijing-Arizona- Taiwan-Connecticut(BATC)photometric sky survey.For each of the 15 wavebands,the LF of cluster galaxies is well modelled by the Schechter function,with characteristic luminosi- ties from-18.0 to-21.9 magnitude,from the a- to the p-band.Morphological dependence of the LF is investigated by separating the cluster members into‘red’and‘blue’subsamples. It is clear that late type galaxies have a steeper shape of LF than the early type galaxies.We also divided the sample galaxies by their local environment.It was found that galaxies in the sparser region have steeper shape of LF than galaxies in the denser region.Combining the results of morphological and environmental dependence of LFs,we show that Abell 566 is a well relaxed cluster with positive evidence of galaxy interaction and merger,and excess number of bright early type galaxies located in its denser region.     

Virgo星系团的光度函数和质量函数

本文对Ｖｉｒｇｏ星系团中央６°天区内的成员星系作了光度函数和质量函数的研究。成员星系是以视向速度作为判据并合理地考虑了密度分布因素后确定的。研究表明，该天区全部成员星系的光度函数为Ｓｃｈｅｃｈｔｅｒ型，而各类Ｓ星系的光度函数则为Ｇａｕｓｓ型，且峰值位置按Ｓａ→Ｓｄ序列向暗端移动，宽度亦逐渐变宽；Ｖｉｒｇｏ团质量函数与恒星质量函数一样可以用指数形式来描述，文中还利用光度函数和质量函数对该团的形态和质量分层进行了讨论，并计算了该天区团的总光度。     

星爆后星系NGC4736核区的环状结构

在１９９２年３月３１日至４月２日期间，我们利用云南天文台１ｍ望远镜２号ＣＣＤ和缩焦装置，对环星系ＮＧＣ４７３６进行了Ⅴ和Ⅰ波段深曝光观测。在经过Ｒｉｃｈａｒｄｓｏｎ－Ｌｕｃｙ图象复原以及自适应滤波两种方法处理后，发现仅仅在Ⅴ波段图象上，其核区存在一个直径约为１０″的环状结构。     

Resolved SZE Cluster Count

We study the counts of resolved SZE(Sunyaev-Zel‘dovich effect)clusters expected from an interferometric survey in different cosmological models under different conditions.The self-similar universal gas model and Press-Schechter mass function are used.We take the observing frequency to be 90GHz,and consider two dish diameters,1.2m and 2.5m.We calculate the number density of the galaxy clusters dN/(dΩdz)at a high flux limit Sv^lim=100mJy and at a relative low Sv^lim=10mJy.The total numbers of SZE clusters N in two low-Ω0 models are compared.The results show that the inθuence of the resolved effect depends not only on D,but also on Sv^lim;at a given D,the effect is more significant for a high than for a low Sv^lim.Also,the resolved effect for a flat universe is more impressive than tnat for an open universe.ForD=1.2m and Sv^lim=10mJy,the resolved effect is very weak.Considering the designed interferometers which will be used to survey SZE clusters,we find that the resolved effect is insignificant when estimating the expected yield of the SZE cluster surveys.     

球状星团M4中的一颗新红变星

G302=L3107是球状星团M4中的一颗红星，目前还没有自行或视线速度的测定，Greenstein和Lee分别给出此星的星等和色指数为：     

Determination of the Proper Motions and Membership of the Globular Cluster M3 and of its Orbit in the Galaxy

We examine 14 plates of the globular cluster M3 (NGC 5272) taken with the 40 cm refractor at the Sheshan station of Shanghai Astronomical Observatory. The plates span over a period of about 77 years. The positions and absolute proper motions of eight stars in the Hipparcos Catalogue and of 49 stars in the Tycho-2 Catalogue are used as the reference frame. The astrometric reduction is made with the central overlapping principle. The absolute proper motions of 534 stars in a region of about 100' × 100' around the cluster are measured. With the new proper motion data the membership probabilities of the stars are determined. The average absolute proper motion obtained for the cluster is -0.06@0.30 mas yr-1 in R.A. and -2.6@0.30 mas yr-1 in Decl. By combining this result with the known distance and radial velocity of the cluster, we also obtained the Galactic orbit of M3 for a chosen three-component Galactic potential.     

Galaxy Evolution in the Northern HDF

The history of star formation in the Northern Hubble Deep Field is probed using a combination of optical and near infrared images taken with WFPC2 and NICMOS on the Hubble Space Telescope. These images cover more than a factor of five in wavelength. This broad wavelength coverage allows accurate photometric determinations of redshift, extinction and intrinsic spectral energy distribution for each galaxy. From these parameters the star formation rate for each galaxy is determined by relating the 1500 angstrom flux to the net star formation rate. We then correct the rates at high redshift for the effects of surface brightness dimming by using a standard form of the star formation intensity distribution. Our measurements show that the star formation rate in the Northern HDF is roughly constant from a redshift of 1 through 6. This revised version was published online in September 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date.     

The Global, Local and Cluster Galaxy Luminosity Function

We review selected measurements of the galaxy luminosity function including the field, the local group, the local sphere, nearby clusters (Virgo, Coma and Fornax) and clusters in general. We conclude that, excluding the super-luminous cD and D galaxies, the overall cluster luminosity function is fully consistent with the field luminosity function over the magnitude range in common (–22 ≤ M _B –5log _{h 0.68} ≤ –17). We find that only in the core regions of clusters (r ≤ 300 kpc) does the overall form of the luminosity function show significant variation. However when the luminosity function is subdivided by spectral type some further variations are seen. We argue that these results imply: substantial late infall, efficient star-formation suppression, and the confinement of mass-changing evolutionary processes to the core regions only. This revised version was published online in July 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date.     

Coma星系团的研究4.结构与次团结构

本文利用确定的278个视向速度成员星系,讨论了Coma星系团的结构和中心区的次团结构.分析表明,Coma团内星系表现有一定程度的空间形态分层和质量分层,早型星系同晚型星系相比,大质量星系与较小质量星系相比,前者的面分布明显地有向团中心集聚的倾向.按最大似然原理对星系的视向速度的分析表明,Coma团中心区可能存在着次团结构.