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利用哈勃空间望远镜研究NGC 4214的年轻恒星星族

Study of the young stellar population of NGC 4214 using the Hubble Space Telescope

Leonardo Ubeda

摘要:

我们提出了一个原始的研究矮星暴星系NGC 4214。我们使用哈勃太空望远镜上的WFPC 2和STIS获得的存档光学和紫外图像。我们解释的过程中获得高质量的测光和天体测量的恒星和集群人口的这个星系。我们描述的过程中使用光谱能量分布的物理参数转换的幅度和颜色。本文分析了NGC 4214天体物理的几个方面:我们简要描述了其内部结构中的恒星星族,重点是蓝红超巨星的比例的确定。我们研究了恒星的灭绝,我们发现它与以前的研究星云灭绝。与恒星星族相关的消光被发现是相当低的(E(B-V)< 0.1等)。本文用测光方法对质量在20 ~ 100 Mo之间的恒星的初始质量函数(IMF)进行了全面的研究。我们发现,这个矮星系有一个陡峭的IMF比萨尔彼得。我们分析了分布在NGC 4214中心区域的几个扩展结构。我们推断它们的性质,如年龄,质量和灭绝。我们研究的一些集群可能会因为“婴儿死亡率”而消失。我们讨论了大质量恒星与其环境之间的相互作用。我们认为,NGC 4214的恒星形成可能发生在几个阶段。

英文摘要:

We present an original study of the dwarf starburst galaxy NGC 4214. We use archival optical and UV images obtained with WFPC2 and STIS on-board the Hubble Space Telescope. We explain the process followed to obtain high-quality photometry and astrometry of the stellar and cluster populations of this galaxy. We describe the procedure used to transform magnitudes and colours into physical parameters using spectral energy distributions. We analyze several aspects of the astrophysics of NGC 4214: we briefly describe the stellar populations in its inner structure with emphasis in the determination of the ratio of blue-to-red supergiants. We study the stellar extinction and we find it consistent with previous studies of the nebular extinction. The extinction associated to the stellar population is found to be rather low (E(B-V) < 0.1 mag). We make a complete research of the initial mass function (IMF) of the stars with masses between 20 and 100 Mo using a photometric method. We find that this dwarf galaxy has a steeper IMF than Salpeter. We analyze several extended structures distributed throughout the central regions of NGC 4214. We infer their properties, such as age, mass, and extinction. Some of the clusters that we study are likely to disappear because of "infant mortality". We discuss the interaction between massive stars and their environment. We argue that star formation in NGC 4214 could take place in several stages.

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