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遥远古老疏散星团FSR1415的多共轭自适应光学VLT成像

Multi-Conjugate Adaptive Optics VLT imaging of the distant old open cluster FSR1415

Y. Momany, S. Ortolani, C. Bonatto, E. Bica, B. Barbuy

摘要:

我们采用最近安装的近红外多共轭自适应光学演示器(MAD),以确定一个新发现的,旧的和遥远的,银河系疏散星团(FSR 1415)的基本属性。MAD设备显着接近衍射极限,达到0.07弧秒(K)的分辨率,这也是均匀的直径为1.8弧分的领域。MAD设施提供在K~19完成50%的光度测定。这对应于低于簇主序关断约2.5 mag。这个高质量的数据集使我们能够得出一个精确的日心距离~8.6千秒差距,金属丰度接近太阳,年龄~2.5 Gyr。另一方面,数据的深度使我们能够重建(完整性校正)质量函数,表明一个相对庞大的集群,具有平坦的核心MF。因此,VLT/MAD能力将为识别/分析银河III和IV象限中其他微弱和遥远的疏散星团提供基本数据。

英文摘要:

We employ the recently installed near infrared Multi-Conjugate Adaptive optics demonstrator (MAD) to determine basic properties of a newly identified, old and distant, Galactic open cluster (FSR1415). The MAD facility remarkably approaches the diffraction limit, reaching a resolution of 0.07 arcsec (in K), that is also uniform in a field of ~1.8 arcmin in diameter. The MAD facility provides photometry that is 50% complete at K~19. This corresponds to about ~2.5 mag below the cluster main sequence turn-off. This high quality data set allows us to derive an accurate heliocentric distance of ~8.6 kpc, a metallicity close to solar, and an age of ~2.5 Gyr. On the other hand, the deepness of the data allow us to reconstruct (completeness-corrected) mass functions indicating a relatively massive cluster, with a flat core MF. The VLT/MAD capabilities will therefore provide fundamental data in identifying/analyzing other faint and distant open clusters in the Galaxy III and IV quadrants.

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