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Westerlund 1是大质量恒星演化的模板

Westerlund 1 as a Template for Massive Star Evolution

Ignacio Negueruela, J. Simon Clark, Paul A. Crowther, Lucy Hadfield

摘要:

Westerlund 1是银河系中已知质量最大的年轻疏散星团,其动力学质量M_dyn约为1.3 × 10 e5 M_sun,恒星计数下限M_cl> 5 × 10 e4 M_sun,因此是研究大质量恒星演化的理想实验室。我们已经根据6000- 9000 A范围内的特征为超巨星开发了一个全面的光谱分类方案,这使我们能够在Westerlund 1中识别出超过30颗非常明亮的超巨星和大约100颗其他演化程度较低的大质量恒星,这些恒星加入了大量已知的沃尔夫-拉叶星。虽然对这些恒星的详细研究仍在进行中,但初步的粗略估计表明,我们看到的恒星正在以近似恒定的光度向HR图的红色部分演化。

英文摘要:

With a dynamical mass M_dyn ~ 1.3x10e5 M_sun and a lower limit M_cl>5x10e4 M_sun from star counts, Westerlund 1 is the most massive young open cluster known in the Galaxy and thus the perfect laboratory to study massive star evolution. We have developed a comprehensive spectral classification scheme for supergiants based on features in the 6000-9000A range, which allows us to identify >30 very luminous supergiants in Westerlund 1 and ~100 other less evolved massive stars, which join the large population of Wolf-Rayet stars already known. Though detailed studies of these stars are still pending, preliminary rough estimates suggest that the stars we see are evolving to the red part of the HR diagram at approximately constant luminosity.

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