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小麦哲伦星云中的NGC 346。IV。在HII区域N66中触发的恒星形成

NGC 346 in The Small Magellanic Cloud. IV. Triggered Star Formation in the HII Region N66

Dimitrios A. Gouliermis, You-Hua Chu, Thomas Henning, Wolfgang Brandner, Robert A. Gruendl, Eva Hennekemper, Felix Hormuth

摘要:

恒星反馈、HII区域的扩张、风吹气泡和超新星被认为是恒星形成的重要触发机制。星协是大量早期型恒星的宿主,是这些机制发挥作用的场所。在我们对小麦哲伦星云中的恒星形成区NGC 346/N66的光度研究的这一部分中,我们提出了基于以前和最近详细研究的证据,它至少有两个不同的触发恒星形成事件,我们揭示了它最近恒星形成历史的复杂性。在我们早期对这一区域的研究中(论文I,III),我们发现除了N66的中心部分,在那里聚集了NGC 346协会的明亮OB恒星内容,在该协会北部的弧形星云特征中,有最近的恒星形成。这一特征的特点是高浓度的发射线恒星和年轻恒星天体,以及嵌入源被视为红外发射峰,与年轻的低质量前主序星致密星团相吻合。所有这些天体都表明,N66的北部弧包含了该地区最近的恒星形成事件。我们提出的证据表明,这种恒星的形成是一个不同的机制的产物比一般地区的协会,它是由风驱动的扩大HII区(或泡沫)吹一个大质量的超新星祖先,可能还有其他明亮的恒星,几百万年前。我们提出了一个方案,根据这一机制触发恒星形成远离酒吧的N66,而在酒吧的N66恒星形成的光电离OB星协会本身介绍。

英文摘要:

Stellar feedback, expanding HII regions, wind-blown bubbles, and supernovae are thought to be important triggering mechanisms of star formation. Stellar associations, being hosts of significant numbers of early-type stars, are the loci where these mechanisms act. In this part of our photometric study of the star-forming region NGC346/N66 in the Small Magellanic Cloud, we present evidence based on previous and recent detailed studies, that it hosts at least two different events of triggered star formation and we reveal the complexity of its recent star formation history. In our earlier studies of this region (Papers I, III) we find that besides the central part of N66, where the bright OB stellar content of the association NGC346 is concentrated, an arc-like nebular feature, north of the association, hosts recent star formation. This feature is characterized by a high concentration of emission-line stars and Young Stellar Objects, as well as embedded sources seen as IR-emission peaks that coincide with young compact clusters of low-mass pre-main sequence stars. All these objects indicate that the northern arc of N66 encompasses the most current star formation event in the region. We present evidence that this star formation is the product of a different mechanism than that in the general area of the association, and that it is triggered by a wind-driven expanding HII region (or bubble) blown by a massive supernova progenitor, and possibly other bright stars, a few Myr ago. We propose a scenario according to which this mechanism triggered star formation away from the bar of N66, while in the bar of N66 star formation is introduced by the photo-ionizing OB stars of the association itself.

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