2023ApJ...953...19C


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2023ApJ...953...19C - Astrophys. J., 953, 19 (2023/August-2)

Runaway and Hypervelocity Stars from Compact Object Encounters in Globular Clusters.

CABRERA T. and RODRIGUEZ C.L.

Abstract (from CDS):

The dense environments in the cores of globular clusters (GCs) facilitate many strong dynamical encounters among stellar objects. These encounters have been shown to be capable of ejecting stars from the host GC, whereupon they become runaway stars, or hypervelocity stars (HVSs) if unbound to the galactic potential. We study high-speed stellar ejecta originating from GCs by using Monte Carlo N-body models, in particular focusing on binary-single encounters involving compact objects. We pair our model-discriminated populations with observational catalogs of Milky Way GCs (MWGCs) to compose a present-day Galactic population of stellar ejecta. We find that these kinds of encounters can accelerate stars to velocities in excess of 2000 km s–1, to speeds beyond the previously predicted limits for ejecta from star-only encounters and in the same regime of Galactic center ejections. However, the same ejections can only account for 1.5%-20% of the total population of stellar runaways, and only 0.0001%-1% of HVS, with similar relative rates found for runaway white dwarfs. We also provide credible regions for ejecta from 149 MWGCs, which we hope will be useful as supplementary evidence when pairing runaway stars with origin GCs.

Abstract Copyright: © 2023. The Author(s). Published by the American Astronomical Society.

Journal keyword(s): Globular star clusters - Runaway stars - Hypervelocity stars - Stellar dynamics

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Number of rows : 4
N Identifier Otype ICRS (J2000)
RA
ICRS (J2000)
DEC
Mag U Mag B Mag V Mag R Mag I Sp type #ref
1850 - 2026
#notes
1 NGC 104 GlC 00 24 05.359 -72 04 53.20     4.09     ~ 4158 0
2 NAME SMC G 00 52 38.0 -72 48 01   2.79 2.2     ~ 12317 1
3 NAME Galactic Center reg 17 45 39.60213 -29 00 22.0000           ~ 16269 0
4 HE 2251-5127 HV* 22 54 51.6245437488 -51 11 44.195809848   16.0 16.1     ~ 45 0

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