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天蝎座上部低质量天体的大面积搜索:年龄和质量分布

A Large-Area Search for Low-Mass Objects in Upper Scorpius II: Age and Mass Distributions

Catherine L. Slesnick, Lynne A. Hillenbrand, John M. Carpenter

摘要:

我们提供了对距今约500万年的上天蝎座OB星协北部进行的宽视场、~150 ° ^2光学光度和光谱测量的连续结果。测光和光谱类型被用来推导有效温度和光度,并将新发现的星协成员放在理论上的赫兹-罗素图上。从我们的调查中,我们已经发现了145个新的低质量成员,并确定其中约10%的物体正在从周围的星周盘中积极吸积物质。基于低和高质量的协会成员的空间分布的比较,我们发现没有证据的空间隔离的质量内的协会的北部部分。测量数据与主序前演化模型相结合,以得出每颗恒星的质量和年龄。使用蒙特卡罗模拟,我们表明,考虑到已知的观测不确定性,在USCO的低质量人口的观测年龄分散是一致的,所有的恒星形成在一个单一的爆发~ 500万年前,并放置一个上限+/-300万年的年龄蔓延,如果恒星形成率一直在时间上恒定。我们推导出的第一个光谱质量函数USCO延伸到亚恒星制度,并比较这些结果与其他三个年轻的集群和协会。

英文摘要:

We present continued results from a wide-field, ~150 deg^2, optical photometric and spectroscopic survey of the northern part of the ~5 Myr-old Upper Scorpius OB Association. Photometry and spectral types were used to derive effective temperatures and luminosities and place newly identified association members onto a theoretical Hertzsprung-Russell diagram. From our survey, we have discovered 145 new low mass members of the association, and determined ~10% of these objects to be actively accreting material from a surrounding circumstellar disk. Based on comparison of the spatial distributions of low and high mass association members, we find no evidence for spatial segregation by mass within the northern portion of the association. Measured data are combined with pre-main sequence evolutionary models to derive a mass and age for each star. Using Monte Carlo simulations we show that, taking into account known observational uncertainties, the observed age dispersion for the low mass population in USco is consistent with all stars forming in a single burst ~5 Myr ago, and place an upper limit of +/-3 Myr on the age spread if the star formation rate has been constant in time. We derive the first spectroscopic mass function for USco that extends into the substellar regime, and compare these results to those for three other young clusters and associations.

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