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星际消光曲线的拟合分析。V. IR至UV曲线形态

An Analysis of the Shapes of Interstellar Extinction Curves. V. The IR-Through-UV Curve Morphology

E. L. Fitzpatrick, D. Massa

摘要:

我们研究了328个银河系B星和晚O星的红外-紫外星际消光曲线。我们使用一种新的技术,采用恒星大气模型代替未红化的“标准”恒星。该技术能够实际上消除曲线中的光谱失配误差。它还允许对误差进行定量评估,并允许对各种曲线参数之间关系的重要性进行严格测试,无论其不确定性是否相关。分析结果表明:(1)2175 A消光凸点的中心位置变化不大,宽度变化较大,这两种变化是无关的。(2)强相关性被发现在一些消光性能在UV区域内,和在IR区域内。(3)除了几条极端的曲线(即,由于R(V)值很大,银河系消光曲线的紫外和红外部分彼此不相关。(4)在我们的样本中看到的大的视线到视线的变化意味着任何平均的银河系灭绝曲线总是反映其母样本的偏差。(5)使用平均曲线去红化的光谱能量分布(SED)将导致显着的误差,和一个现实的误差预算去红化的SED必须包括银河系曲线的观测方差。虽然观察到的大的视线到视线的变化,以及曲线的各种特征之间缺乏相关性,使得很难有意义地表征平均消光特性,但它们表明消光曲线对当地条件的反应很敏感。因此,每条曲线都包含关于沿其视线的颗粒的潜在唯一信息。

英文摘要:

We study the IR-through-UV interstellar extinction curves towards 328 Galactic B and late-O stars. We use a new technique which employs stellar atmosphere models in lieu of unreddened "standard" stars. This technique is capable of virtually eliminating spectral mismatch errors in the curves. It also allows a quantitative assessment of the errors and enables a rigorous testing of the significance of relationships between various curve parameters, regardless of whether their uncertainties are correlated. Analysis of the curves gives the following results: (1) In accord with our previous findings, the central position of the 2175 A extinction bump is mildly variable, its width is highly variable, and the two variations are unrelated. (2) Strong correlations are found among some extinction properties within the UV region, and within the IR region. (3) With the exception of a few curves with extreme (i.e., large) values of R(V), the UV and IR portions of Galactic extinction curves are not correlated with each other. (4) The large sightline-to-sightline variation seen in our sample implies that any average Galactic extinction curve will always reflect the biases of its parent sample. (5) The use of an average curve to deredden a spectral energy distribution (SED) will result in significant errors, and a realistic error budget for the dereddened SED must include the observed variance of Galactic curves. While the observed large sightline-to-sightline variations, and the lack of correlation among the various features of the curves, make it difficult to meaningfully characterize average extinction properties, they demonstrate that extinction curves respond sensitively to local conditions. Thus, each curve contains potentially unique information about the grains along its sightline.

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