期刊
MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY
卷 396, 期 1, 页码 570-578出版社
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2966.2009.14809.x
关键词
stellar dynamics; methods: N-body simulations; binaries: general; stars: individual: HD 271791; stars: neutron
资金
- Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst
- NASA [NNX07AH15G]
- Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research [643.200.503]
- Netherlands Research School for Astronomy (NOVA)
We explore the hypothesis that some high-velocity runaway stars attain their peculiar velocities in the course of exchange encounters between hard massive binaries and a very massive star (either an ordinary 50-100 M-circle dot star or a more massive one, formed through runaway mergers of ordinary stars in the core of a young massive star cluster). In this process, one of the binary components becomes gravitationally bound to the very massive star, while the second one is ejected, sometimes with a high speed. We performed three-body scattering experiments and found that early B-type stars (the progenitors of the majority of neutron stars) can be ejected with velocities of greater than or similar to 200-400 km s(-1) (typical of pulsars), while 3-4 M-circle dot stars can attain velocities of greater than or similar to 300-400 km s(-1) (typical of the bound population of halo late B-type stars). We also found that the ejected stars can occasionally attain velocities exceeding the Milky Ways's escape velocity.
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