English

Modelling the composition of a young star cluster ejecta

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics 2015-06-04 v3 Solar and Stellar Astrophysics

Abstract

We have computed with a fine time grid the evolution of the elemental abundances of He, C, N and O ejected by a young (t < 20 Myr) and massive (M=106=10^{6}\,\Msun) coeval stellar cluster with a Salpeter initial mass function (IMF) over a wide range of initial abundances. Our computations incorporate the mass loss from massive stars (M >30 Msun) during their wind phase including the Wolf-Rayet phase and the ejecta from the core collapse supernovae. We find that during the Wolf-Rayet phase (t <5 Myr) the cluster ejecta composition suddenly becomes vastly over-abundant in N for all initial abundances and in He, C and O for initial abundances higher than 1/5th Solar. The C and O abundance in the cluster ejecta can reach over 50 times the solar value with important consequences for the chemical and hydrodynamical evolution of the surrounding ISM.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.1204.4879,
  title  = {Modelling the composition of a young star cluster ejecta},
  author = {Mercedes Mollá and Roberto Terlevich},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1204.4879},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

13 pages, 10 figures, 7 tables, accepted by MNRAS

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