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Is There a Fundamental Upper Limit to the Mass of a Star Cluster?

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Pith's one-line read Genuine star clusters cap out near 10^8 solar masses at birth, this census argues.

desk verdict The paper is a carefully argued and honest reinforcement of the authors' earlier predicted upper mass limit, but the central evidence remains partly circular and the catalog inhomogeneous; it supports rather than establishes the limit. read the letter →

arxiv 1908.00550 v1 pith:NQG6KGU4 submitted 2019-08-01 astro-ph.GA

Mark A. Norris , Glenn van de Ven , Sheila J. Kannappan , Eva Schinnerer , Ryan Leaman This is my paper · ORCID
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The pith

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

The reading

This paper compiles the largest available catalog of compact stellar systems—dense objects that sit between globular clusters and galaxies—and argues that genuine ancient star clusters end at a sharp boundary near absolute magnitude $M_V \approx -13$. The counts of these systems stop rising above that luminosity even though brighter objects are the easiest to find, which the paper reads as evidence for a truncation of the true star cluster population at a current stellar mass of about $5 \times 10^7\,M_\odot$, corresponding to a birth mass near $10^8\,M_\odot$. The paper also argues that everything brighter than $M_V \approx -13$ is not a more massive star cluster but the stripped nucleus of a tidally disrupted galaxy. If this is right, it sets a practical upper limit on star cluster formation in the present-day universe and means the most luminous compact remnants are galactic debris rather than extreme clusters. Four candidate mechanisms—extreme interstellar gas pressure, limited cold gas supply, shear, and stellar feedback—are laid out as plausible causes of the cutoff.

What carries the argument

The machinery is the compiled catalog of spectroscopically confirmed compact stellar systems (CSSs) and the luminosity function built from it. Because the underlying photometry is too heterogeneous to compare masses directly, the paper uses absolute V magnitude as the mass proxy, and everything turns on the boundary at $M_V \approx -13$ where the counts flatten. For old stellar populations this boundary maps to a current stellar mass of roughly $3$ to $7\times10^7\,M_\odot$; after about 30 per cent evolutionary mass loss over 10 Gyr, the initial mass is about $7\times10^7$ to $10^8\,M_\odot$. The catalog and this boundary are what carry the argument: the plateau above $M_V = -13$, the concentration of confirmed stripped nuclei at or above it, and the agreement with earlier predictions from the globular cluster luminosity function.

What would settle it

One unambiguous old compact stellar system with a present-day mass above roughly $7\times10^7\,M_\odot$ and no stripped-nucleus signature would break the claimed limit; more generally, a complete volume-limited survey that finds the confirmed star cluster luminosity function continuing to rise at $M_V < -13$ would show the flattening is a sample artifact.

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Extended reading notes

Core claim

The central claim is that old, genuine star clusters are bounded in mass: none reaches a present-day stellar mass much above $5\times10^7\,M_\odot$, and allowing for roughly 30 per cent stellar mass loss over 10 Gyr under the adopted initial mass function, the corresponding mass at birth is close to $10^8\,M_\odot$. The boundary is identified observationally at $M_V \approx -13$: in the compiled catalog there are 19 compact stellar systems in the bin $-12.5 < M_V < -13$, but above $M_V = -13$ the number per half-magnitude bin stays roughly constant at about 3, even though such luminous objects are the easiest to discover. Seven of the best-confirmed stripped-nucleus ultra-compact dwarfs are all at or brighter than this magnitude, and the most massive young cluster known in the nearby universe, NGC 7252-W3 at about $8\times10^7\,M_\odot$, formed in a major merger close to the proposed cap. The paper concludes that the bright end of the ultra-compact dwarf population consists of stripped galaxy substructures rather than heavier star clusters, and that the limit could be set by any of four physical or statistical mechanisms.

Load-bearing premise

The load-bearing premise is that the assembled catalog is essentially complete for luminous compact systems, so the flat counts above $M_V \approx -13$ reflect a real absence of heavier star clusters rather than missed objects or misclassified galaxy remnants.

Editorial extensions

If this is right

  • Any compact stellar system brighter than $M_V \approx -13$ found in future surveys should be treated as a stripped galactic nucleus unless individual evidence shows otherwise; the genuine star cluster mass function is truncated below about $10^8\,M_\odot$ at birth.
  • The most massive true star clusters at $z=0$ should form in major mergers, because only merger-driven compression supplies the interstellar gas pressures needed to approach $10^8\,M_\odot$, matching the proximity of NGC 7252-W3 to the cap.
  • Because roughly 30 per cent of initial stellar mass is lost over 10 Gyr under the assumed initial mass function, quoted mass limits for old compact systems must distinguish current mass (about $5\times10^7\,M_\odot$) from birth mass (about $10^8\,M_\odot$); comparisons with high-redshift cluster formation should use the birth mass.
  • All four candidate mechanisms—extreme interstellar pressure, limited molecular gas, shear, and stellar feedback—predict the same observable cutoff, so identifying the dominant one requires merger simulations and cold-gas surveys rather than the luminosity function alone.

Reading between the lines

Editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • Beyond the paper: if the cutoff is real, the bright end of the ultra-compact dwarf luminosity function becomes a tracer of galaxy disruption rather than of star cluster formation, so counts above $M_V \approx -13$ in different environments should track merger and stripping history.
  • Beyond the paper: the gas-supply mechanism implies the cap may have been higher at high redshift, when molecular gas reservoirs above $10^{11}\,M_\odot$ were common; the most massive old clusters surviving today could be frozen relics of an earlier epoch with a looser limit.
  • Beyond the paper: a volume-limited survey comparing old compact systems at $M_V$ between $-12$ and $-13$ with those brighter than $-13$ could test the classification directly—the fainter group should show cluster-like metallicities and simple stellar populations, while the brighter group should show nucleus-like properties such as black holes, debris streams, or extended star formation histories.
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Summary. The paper compiles a heterogeneous catalog of spectroscopically confirmed compact stellar systems (CSSs) and uses its V-band luminosity function to argue for an upper limit on the mass of ancient star clusters at M_V ≈ -12.5 to -13, corresponding to a current stellar mass near 5×10^7 M_sun and a birth mass near 10^8 M_sun. The authors interpret an apparent flattening of the bright-end counts as evidence that objects brighter than M_V = -13 are stripped galaxy nuclei rather than genuine star clusters, and they discuss four mechanisms (extreme ISM pressure/density, insufficient gas supply, shear, and stellar feedback) that could produce such a limit. The paper explicitly acknowledges that the catalog is inhomogeneous and incomplete, and it states that the agreement between the Gaussian GCLF curve and the ACSVCS histogram is partly by construction.

Significance. If the proposed upper mass limit is real, it is an important constraint on the formation physics of the most massive star clusters and on the origin of ultra-compact dwarfs, and the paper usefully assembles the relevant observational evidence and candidate mechanisms. The compiled catalog is a valuable resource, and the authors are transparent that the green curve in Fig. 2 is not an independent fit. The central empirical claim, however, is not yet statistically established: the break is not fitted to the data, completeness is not quantified, and the classification of all bright CSSs as stripped nuclei goes beyond the seven confirmed cases. The paper therefore provides a strong motivation for future volume-limited surveys rather than a demonstration of a fundamental limit.

major comments (3)
  1. [§2, Fig. 2] The central evidence for a truncation is the flattening above M_V = -13 in Fig. 2, but this flattening is not established against a null model in data of known completeness. The text concedes in Section 2 that the catalog is "by no means homogeneous, or complete" and asserts that the census is "close to complete for the area surveyed" without a quantified selection function. A heterogeneous combination of surveys with different footprints, depths, and spectroscopic completeness can produce a bright-end plateau even if the intrinsic cluster mass function has no truncation. Please provide a quantified completeness estimate or a robustness test restricted to the best-characterized subsamples (e.g., ACSVCS and M87), and fit the histogram with and without a break to report the significance of the claimed flattening.
  2. [§3, Fig. 2 green curve] The paper explicitly states that the agreement between the green Gaussian curve and the ACSVCS histogram is "by construction," because the proposed upper limit was inferred from the same GCLF extrapolation. Consequently, the visual agreement of the curve with the histogram does not independently validate the break; the only direct evidence is the approximate constancy of counts at about three objects per 0.5 mag bin above M_V = -13. Given the small numbers and the lack of a statistical test, the break location is not yet constrained by the compiled data. Please fit the break to the full sample, compare it with a no-break model, and quantify the uncertainty on the transition magnitude.
  3. [§3, stripped-nuclei inference] The interpretation that all CSSs above M_V = -13 are stripped galaxy substructures extrapolates from seven confirmed ex-nuclei, while the paper admits that the remaining bright objects "have not yet been studied in detail, or have no definitive evidence." A flat tail in the luminosity function does not by itself demonstrate that every object in the tail is a stripped nucleus; genuine clusters could account for part of the tail population. Please provide either a classification-completeness estimate for the bright tail or a quantitative demonstration that the confirmed and suspected stripped nuclei dominate the tail counts.
minor comments (5)
  1. [§4.2, Eq. (1)] Equation (1) is typeset ambiguously: the terms M^(2-β)/(2-β) and ln[M/M_min] appear as a single expression separated by a comma instead of as the two cases β ≠ 2 and β = 2; please present the piecewise definition explicitly.
  2. [Fig. 2 caption] The caption says the green curve is "arbitrarily normalised to match the ACSVCS distribution" while the text says it is "not a fit"; please clarify which parameters are fixed and which are matched, since the normalization is effectively fitted.
  3. [Abstract and §1] There are typographical errors in the abstract and introduction, including "millenium" and "wo decades," and the header date shows "MNRAS 000, 1–10 (2015)" for a 2019 arXiv submission; these should be corrected.
  4. [§2] The paper describes the compiled catalog as comprehensive, but no catalog table or machine-readable file is provided; please include one or state where it can be obtained.
  5. [§5 and title] Section 4.2 explicitly describes scenario B as statistical, but the title and conclusions use the phrase "fundamental upper limit"; please clarify whether the proposed limit is a hard physical cutoff or a practical/environmental maximum.

Circularity Check

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The proposed M_V≈−13 cutoff is partly defined by the same GCLF green curve used to display agreement, though the compiled catalog and observed plateau provide independent support.

  1. self definitional [Section 3 (Figure 2 discussion)]
    "The agreement between the upper limit where the green line predicts only a single star cluster, and our suggested upper magnitude limit for star cluster formation is by construction. As discussed in the introduction it was the observation that even GC systems with>10,000 - 20,000 members would not predict more than∼1 GC with magnitude ≲ –12.5 - 13 that motivated the definition of the upper limit."

    The proposed upper magnitude limit (M_V ≈ -12.5 to -13) is defined as the point where the Gaussian GCLF extrapolation predicts fewer than one cluster. The green curve in Figure 2 is built from that same GCLF construction, with mean and dispersion from M87 and normalization matched to the histogram, so its bright-end cutoff agrees with the proposed limit by construction rather than by independent measurement. The compiled histogram's plateau is real data, but the threshold location is not fitted to those data; it is inherited from the same curve used to draw the green line, so this agreement cannot independently confirm the limit.

full rationale

The paper compiles a large catalog of compact stellar systems and presents the observed flattening of the luminosity function above M_V ≈ -13 as evidence for an upper limit to genuine star cluster mass. This central claim is not wholly circular: the compiled histogram and the seven confirmed stripped nuclei provide independent empirical grounding. However, one supporting element is explicitly admitted to be by construction: the green Gaussian curve in Figure 2 is constructed from the same GCLF extrapolation that motivated the M_V ≈ -12.5 to -13 limit, so the agreement between the curve's 'fewer than one cluster' point and the proposed cutoff is not an independent test. The paper's transparency about this by-construction agreement mitigates the severity, but the circular step is real. Separately, the catalog's completeness is asserted rather than quantified, so the plateau could in principle be a sample-construction artifact; that is a correctness risk rather than a circularity. Overall, the central claim retains independent content, but the specific green-curve confirmation reduces to its own input, warranting a partial circularity score.

Assumptions & free parameters 6 free parameters · 5 assumptions · 0 invented entities

The central claim rests on literature-derived inputs: GCLF parameters, cluster formation and star formation efficiencies, a power-law ICMF, and a completeness assumption at the bright end. The paper introduces no new entities or free parameters beyond these adopted values.

free parameters (6)
  • Effective GC system size for cD galaxies = ~10,000 members
    Adopted in Section 1 after applying a 50% accreted fraction to a 20,000-member system; directly shifts the predicted mass limit to about 4e7 M_sun.
  • Cluster formation efficiency eta_c = 0.25
    Assumed in Section 4.2 in Eq. (1) to estimate total stellar mass produced; the paper notes a literature range of 0.03 to 0.7.
  • Star formation efficiency eta_star = 2% (alternative 20-40%)
    Used in Section 4.2 to convert total stellar mass to required molecular gas mass; 2% gives 4e11 M_sun, while 20-40% gives 1e10 to 4e10 M_sun.
  • Minimum bound cluster mass M_min = 10 M_sun
    Assumed for the lower integration limit in Eq. (1), following Elmegreen et al. (2012).
  • Transition magnitude M_V = -13 mag (range -12.5 to -13)
    Defines the proposed upper limit for genuine star clusters; carried over from the authors' prior GCLF extrapolation rather than measured independently in this paper.
  • Stellar mass loss fraction over 10 Gyr = ~30%
    Adopted from Into & Portinari (2013) to convert current stellar mass to birth mass in Section 3.
assumptions (5)
  • domain assumption The globular cluster luminosity function is approximately Gaussian with a universal turnover magnitude and weak dependence of width on galaxy mass.
    Used in Section 1 to extrapolate the most luminous cluster expected in a given GC system.
  • domain assumption The initial cluster mass function follows dN/dM proportional to M^-2 with no physical truncation.
    Explicitly assumed in Section 4.2 before applying Eq. (1) from Elmegreen et al. (2012).
  • domain assumption The bright end of the compiled CSS catalog is close to complete for the surveyed area.
    Section 2 asserts that luminous objects are easiest to find and confirm; this underpins the interpretation of the histogram flattening.
  • domain assumption Objects brighter than M_V = -13 in the sample are stripped galaxy nuclei or galaxies, not genuine star clusters.
    Section 3 uses this interpretation to explain the constant counts above -13; it is supported by 7 confirmed ex-nuclei but not established for all.
  • domain assumption The effective in-situ GC system of a cD galaxy contains about 10,000 members after accounting for a 50% accreted fraction.
    Section 1 uses this reduced size to lower the predicted maximum GC luminosity to about M_V = -12.5.

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abstract

The discovery around the turn of the millenium of a population of very massive (M$_\star$ > 2$\times$10$^6$ M$_\odot$) compact stellar systems (CSS) with physical properties (radius, velocity dispersion, stellar mass etc.) that are intermediate between those of the classical globular cluster (GC) population and galaxies led to questions about their exact nature. Recently a consensus has emerged that these objects, usually called ultra compact dwarfs (UCDs), are a mass-dependent mixture of high mass star clusters and remnant nuclei of tidally disrupted galaxies. The existence of genuine star clusters with stellar masses >10$^7$ M$_\odot$ naturally leads to questions about the upper mass limit of the star cluster formation process. In this work we compile a comprehensive catalog of compact stellar systems, and reinforce the evidence that the true ancient star cluster population has a maximum mass of M$_\star$ ~ 5$\times$10$^7$ M$_\odot$, corresponding to a stellar mass at birth of close to 10$^8$ M$_\odot$. We then discuss several physical and statistical mechanisms potentially responsible for creating this limiting mass.

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Figure 1
Figure 1. The luminosity-size plane for dynamically hot stel￾lar systems. Rather than plotting points we show the probability density for each object, by including the uncertainties on the dis￾tance, size and magnitude. This more accurately reflects the in￾herent correlations in the absolute magnitude and radius (caused by their mutual dependence on distance). The clouds of objects with Re ∼0.75 pc and MV ∼ –11 and –19 are th… view at source ↗
Figure 2
Figure 2. Histogram of MV for samples of CSSs. The blue his￾togram shows the full catalog of CSSs. The red histogram shows all objects from the ACSVCS which have > 95% probability of being GCs or UCDs. The cyan histogram shows the distribution of magnitudes of Milky Way GCs. The solid orange regions show the locations of those CSSs known to be stripped galaxy nuclei, the solid yellow regions indicate suspected stripped galaxy… view at source ↗

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