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Binary interactions and multiple stellar populations in globular clusters

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 March 2017

Dengkai Jiang ,
Zhanwen Han  and
Lifang Li
Dengkai Jiang
Affiliation:
Yunnan Observatories, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.O. Box 110, Kunming, Yunnan Province, 650011, China Key Laboratory for the Structure and Evolution of Celestial Objects, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, 650011, China email: [email protected]
Zhanwen Han
Affiliation:
Yunnan Observatories, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.O. Box 110, Kunming, Yunnan Province, 650011, China Key Laboratory for the Structure and Evolution of Celestial Objects, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, 650011, China email: [email protected]
Lifang Li
Affiliation:
Yunnan Observatories, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.O. Box 110, Kunming, Yunnan Province, 650011, China Key Laboratory for the Structure and Evolution of Celestial Objects, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, 650011, China email: [email protected]
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Abstract

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Globular clusters (GCs) have multiple stellar populations, which show star-to-star abundance variations and multiple sequences (or spreads) in the Hertzsprung-Russell diagrams. It is explained by multiple generations of star-formation in GCs. However, the observed evidence of ongoing star-formation was not found within any clusters. Here we present a binary interactions scenario for the formation of multiple stellar populations in GCs, where GC stars were born in a single burst of star formation, but some of them are members of binary systems. Binary interactions can produce peculiar stars, e.g. the merged stars and the accretor stars. They are more massive than normal single stars in the same evolutionary stage, and they are rapidly rotating stars at the moment of their formation. Rotationally induced mixing can cause the variations of their surface chemical composition. This results in the single-generation GCs showing abundance anomalies.

Keywords

globular clusters: generalbinary: generalstars: evolutionstars: rotation
Type
Contributed Papers
Information
Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union , Volume 12 , Symposium S316: Formation, evolution, and survival of massive star clusters , August 2015 , pp. 316 - 319
Copyright
Copyright © International Astronomical Union 2017 

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