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高遮蔽活动恒星形成区W51B的近红外研究

A Near-Infrared Study of the Highly-Obscured Active Star-Forming Region W51B

Hyosun Kim, Yasushi Nakajima, Hwankyung Sung, Dae-Sik Moon, Bon-Chul Koo

摘要:

本文介绍了活跃恒星形成区W51 B中三个致密HII区G48.9-0.3、G49.0-0.3和G49.2-0.3的宽视场JHKS波段测光观测结果。与参考区域相比,在三个紧凑的HII区域内的星团在J-Ks直方图中显示出多余的恒星数量。虽然三个致密HII区的平均色过量比E(J-H)/E(H-Ks)近似为~ 2.07,但对它们的视觉偏差有些不同:G48.9-0.3和G49.0-0.3的亮度约为17等; G49.2-0.3的亮度约为23等。根据它们的大小和亮度,我们认为每个致密HII区的年龄为=<200万年。W51 B的总恒星质量约为1.4 × 10^4 M_sun,是银河系中最活跃的恒星形成区之一,恒星形成效率约为10%。

英文摘要:

We present wide-field JHKs-band photometric observations of the three compact HII regions G48.9-0.3, G49.0-0.3, and G49.2-0.3 in the active star-forming region W51B. The star clusters inside the three compact HII regions show the excess number of stars in the J-Ks histograms compared with reference fields. While the mean color excess ratio E(J-H)/E(H-Ks) of the three compact HII regions are similar to ~ 2.07, the visual extinctions toward them are somewhat different: ~ 17 mag for G48.9-0.3 and G49.0-0.3; ~ 23 mag for G49.2-0.3. Based on their sizes and brightnesses, we suggest that the age of each compact HII region is =< 2 Myr. The inferred total stellar mass, ~ 1.4 x 10^4 M_sun, of W51B makes it one of the most active star forming regions in the Galaxy with the star formation efficiency of ~ 10 %.

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