Multiple main sequence of globular clusters as a result of inhomogeneous big bang nucleosynthesis

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作者
Moriya, Takashi [1 ,2 ]
Shigeyama, Toshikazu [3 ]
机构
[1] Univ Tokyo, Dept Astron, Grad Sch Sci, Bunkyo Ku, Tokyo 1130033, Japan
[2] Univ Tokyo, Inst Phys & Math Univ, Chiba 2778583, Japan
[3] Univ Tokyo, Res Ctr Early Univ, Grad Sch Sci, Bunkyo Ku, Tokyo 1130033, Japan
来源
PHYSICAL REVIEW D | 2010年 / 81卷 / 04期
关键词
OMEGA-CENTAURI; ABUNDANCE; STARS; ORIGIN; POPULATIONS; ENCOUNTERS; PARAMETERS; SPREAD; BRANCH; MASS;
D O I
10.1103/PhysRevD.81.043004
中图分类号
P1 [天文学];
学科分类号
0704 ;
摘要
A new mechanism for enhancing the helium abundance in the blue main sequence stars of omega Centauri and NGC 2808 is investigated. We suggest that helium enhancement was caused by the inhomogeneous big bang nucleosynthesis. Regions with extremely high baryon-to-photon ratios are assumed to be caused by the baryogenesis. Its mass scale is also assumed to be 10(6)M(circle dot). An example of the mechanisms to realize these two things was already proposed as the Affleck-Dine baryogenesis. As the baryon-to-photon ratio becomes larger, the primordial helium abundance is enhanced. We calculated the big bang nucleosynthesis and found that there exists a parameter region yielding enough helium to account for the split of the main sequence in the aforementioned globular clusters while keeping the abundance of other elements compatible with observations. Our mechanism predicts that heavy elements with the mass number of around 100 is enhanced in the blue main sequence stars. We estimate the time scales of diffusion of the enhanced helium and mass accretion in several stages after the nucleosynthesis to investigate whether these processes diminish the enhancement of helium. We found that the diffusion does not influence the helium content. A cloud with a sufficiently large baryon-to-photon ratio to account for the multiple main sequence collapsed immediately after the recombination. Subsequently, the cloud accreted the ambient matter with the normal helium content. If the star formation occurred both in the collapsed core and the accreted envelope, then the resultant star cluster has a double main sequence.
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