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猎杀加拉帕戈斯到灭绝(和灭绝)

Hunting Galaxies to (and for) Extinction

Jonathan B. Foster, Carlos Román-Zúñiga, Alyssa A. Goodman, Elizabeth Lada, João Alves

摘要:

在恒星形成区的研究中,近红外过量(NIRX)源-具有比正常恒星更红的固有颜色的物体-既构成信号(年轻恒星),也构成噪声(例如背景星系)。我们通过结合结构信息,颜色和数量密度估计,在英仙座恒星形成区域使用近红外观测来寻找(识别)星系。中等红移(z = 0.1 - 0.5)的银河系天体在近红外和中红外(例如斯皮策)波长处的颜色与年轻恒星天体(YSO)相似,这限制了我们仅从颜色识别YSO的能力。来自高质量近红外观测的结构信息使我们能够更好地将YSO与星系分开,拒绝从我们地区的斯皮策观测中确定的YSO候选者的2/5,并可能将YSO光度函数扩展到15个星系污染占主导地位的K以下。一旦它们被识别出来,我们就可以利用星系作为宝贵的额外信号来绘制分子云的灭绝图。我们新的迭代程序:星系近红外色过量方法(GNICER)使用星系的平均色作为星等的函数,以无偏的方式将它们包括在消光图中。GNICER增加了用于探测云结构的背景源的数量,减少了噪音,提高了远离银道面的消光图的分辨率。

英文摘要:

In studies of star-forming regions, near-infrared excess (NIRX) sources--objects with intrinsic colors redder than normal stars--constitute both signal (young stars) and noise (e.g. background galaxies). We hunt down (identify) galaxies using near-infrared observations in the Perseus star-forming region by combining structural information, colors, and number density estimates. Galaxies at moderate redshifts (z = 0.1 - 0.5) have colors similar to young stellar objects (YSOs) at both near- and mid-infrared (e.g. Spitzer) wavelengths, which limits our ability to identify YSOs from colors alone. Structural information from high-quality near-infrared observations allows us to better separate YSOs from galaxies, rejecting 2/5 of the YSO candidates identified from Spitzer observations of our regions and potentially extending the YSO luminosity function below K of 15 magnitudes where galaxy contamination dominates. Once they are identified we use galaxies as valuable extra signal for making extinction maps of molecular clouds. Our new iterative procedure: the Galaxies Near Infrared Color Excess method Revisited (GNICER), uses the mean colors of galaxies as a function of magnitude to include them in extinction maps in an unbiased way. GNICER increases the number of background sources used to probe the structure of a cloud, decreasing the noise and increasing the resolution of extinction maps made far from the galactic plane.

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