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来自斯皮策银河系中心IRAC巡天的点源

Point Sources from a Spitzer IRAC Survey of the Galactic Center

Solange V. Ramirez, Richard G. Arendt, Kris Sellgren, Susan R. Stolovy, Angela Cotera, Howard A. Smith, Farhad Yusef-Zadeh

摘要:

我们已经获得了斯皮策/IRAC在3.6-8.0微米处对银河系中心2.0 x 1.4度(~280 x 200 pc)的观测结果。给出了一个包含1,065,565个天体的点源目录。该星表包括3.6、4.5、5.8和8.0微米的点源星等,以及2 MASS的JHK测光。点源星表的混淆度是有限的,平均界限分别为12.4、12.1、11.7和11.2等[3.6]、[4.5]、[5.8]和[8.0]。我们发现,混乱的限制是空间可变的,因为恒星表面密度,背景表面亮度水平,和整个调查区域的消光变化。点源密度随银河系经纬度的总体分布基本上是恒定的,但当选择不同星等范围的源时,结构确实会出现。明亮的恒星随银河系纬度呈陡峭的递减梯度,随银河系经度呈缓慢的递减梯度,在银河系中心的位置有一个峰值。从IRAC色-星等图和色-色图中,我们得出结论,我们的星表中的大多数点源具有红巨星和AGB星的IRAC星等和颜色特征。

英文摘要:

We have obtained Spitzer/IRAC observations of the central 2.0 x 1.4 degrees (~280 x 200 pc) of the Galaxy at 3.6-8.0 microns. A point source catalog of 1,065,565 objects is presented. The catalog includes magnitudes for the point sources at 3.6, 4.5, 5.8, and 8.0 microns, as well as JHK photometry from 2MASS. The point source catalog is confusion limited with average limits of 12.4, 12.1, 11.7, and 11.2 magnitudes for [3.6], [4.5], [5.8], and [8.0], respectively. We find that the confusion limits are spatially variable because of stellar surface density, background surface brightness level, and extinction variations across the survey region. The overall distribution of point source density with Galactic latitude and longitude is essentially constant, but structure does appear when sources of different magnitude ranges are selected. Bright stars show a steep decreasing gradient with Galactic latitude, and a slow decreasing gradient with Galactic longitude, with a peak at the position of the Galactic center. From IRAC color-magnitude and color-color diagrams, we conclude that most of the point sources in our catalog have IRAC magnitudes and colors characteristic of red giant and AGB stars.

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