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Title: | The Gaia-ESO Survey: N-body modelling of the Gamma Velorum cluster | Authors: | Mapelli, M. VALLENARI, Antonella Jeffries, R. D. Gavagnin, E. Cantat-Gaudin, T. SACCO, GIUSEPPE GERMANO Meyer, M. R. Alfaro, E. J. Costado, M. DAMIANI, Francesco FRASCA, Antonio Lanzafame, Alessandro Carmelo RANDICH, Maria Sofia SORDO, ROSANNA ZAGGIA, Simone MICELA, Giuseppina FLACCOMIO, Ettore PANCINO, ELENA Bergemann, M. Hourihane, A. Lardo, C. MAGRINI, LAURA MORBIDELLI, LORENZO PRISINZANO, Loredana Worley, C. C. |
Issue Date: | 2015 | Journal: | ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS | Number: | 578 | First Page: | A35 | Abstract: | The Gaia-ESO Survey has recently unveiled the complex kinematic signature of the Gamma Velorum cluster: this cluster is composed of two kinematically distinct populations (hereafter, population A and B), showing two different velocity dispersions and a relative ~ 2 km s<SUP>-1</SUP> radial velocity (RV) shift. In this paper, we propose that the two populations of the Gamma Velorum cluster originate from two different sub-clusters, born from the same parent molecular cloud. We investigate this possibility by means of direct-summation N-body simulations. Our scenario is able to reproduce not only the RV shift and the different velocity dispersions, but also the different centroid (~0.5 pc), the different spatial concentration and the different line-of-sight distance (~5 pc) of the two populations. The observed 1-2 Myr age difference between the two populations is also naturally explained by our scenario, in which the two sub-clusters formed in two slightly different star formation episodes. Our simulations suggest that population B is strongly supervirial, while population A is close to virial equilibrium. We discuss the implications of our models for the formation of young star clusters and OB associations in the Milky Way. | Acknowledgments: | We thank the anonymous referee for the careful reading of the manuscript and for the helpful comments. Based on data products from observations made with ESO Telescopes at the La Silla Paranal Observatory under programme ID 188.B-3002. These data products have been processed by the Cambridge Astronomy Survey Unit (CASU) at the Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge, and by the FLAMES/UVES reduction team at INAF/Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri. These data have been obtained from the Gaia -ESO Survey Data Archive, prepared and hosted by the Wide Field Astronomy Unit, Institute for Astronomy, University of Edinburgh, which is funded by the UK Science and Technology Facilities Council. This work was partly supported by the European Union FP7 programme through ERC grant number 320360 and by the Leverhulme Trust through grant RPG-2012-541. We acknowledge the support from INAF and Ministero dell’ Istruzione, dell’ Università’ e della Ricerca (MIUR) in the form of the grant “Premiale VLT 2012”. The results presented here benefit from discussions held during the Gaia -ESO workshops and conferences supported by the ESF (European Science Foundation) through the GREAT Research Network Programme. M.M. acknowledges financial support from the Italian Ministry of Education, University and Research (MIUR) through grant FIRB 2012 RBFR12PM1F, from INAF through grant PRIN-2011-1 and from CONACyT through grant 169554. The authors acknowledge the CINECA Award N. HP10B3BJEW, HP10CLI3BX, HP10CXB7O8, HP10C894X7, HP10CGUBV0, HP10CP6XSO and HP10C3ANJY for the availability of high performance computing resources and support. | URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12386/23101 | URL: | https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2015/06/aa25514-14/aa25514-14.html | ISSN: | 0004-6361 | DOI: | 10.1051/0004-6361/201425514 | Bibcode ADS: | 2015A&A...578A..35M | Fulltext: | open |
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