Thickening of galactic disks through clustered star formation

Abstract

(Abridged) The building blocks of galaxies are star clusters. These form with low-star formation efficiencies and, consequently, loose a large part of their stars that expand outwards once the residual gas is expelled by the action of the massive stars. Massive star clusters may thus add kinematically hot components to galactic field populations. This kinematical imprint on the stellar distribution function is estimated here by calculating the velocity distribution function for ensembles of star-clusters distributed as power-law or log-normal initial cluster mass functions (ICMFs). The resulting stellar velocity distribution function is non-Gaussian and may be interpreted as being composed of multiple kinematical sub-populations. The notion that the formation of star-clusters may add hot kinematical components to a galaxy is applied to the age--velocity-dispersion relation of the Milky Way disk to study the implied history of clustered star formation, with an emphasis on the possible origin of the thick disk.

MNRAS, accepted, 27 pages, 9 figures

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