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M82大质量星团的近红外光谱年龄

Near-IR spectroscopic ages of massive star clusters in M82

A. Lançon, J. S. Gallagher, M. Mouhcine, L. J. Smith, D. Ladjal, R. de Grijs

摘要:

像其他星暴星系一样,M82拥有紧凑,巨大的年轻星团,它们本身就很有趣,也是人口合成模型的基准。光谱合成模型在分辨率约1000充分再现近红外光谱特征和能量分布的这些集群之间的0.8和2.4微米?衍生的集群性能与以前的结果相比,从光学研究?我们分析了M82中的5个大质量星团的光谱,使用光谱仪SpeX在红超巨星望远镜设施(NASA/IRTF)上获得的数据和一个新的人口合成工具,具有高度改进的近红外扩展,基于最近收集的红超巨星的经验和理论光谱。我们获得了很好的拟合在近红外与模型在准太阳金属丰度和太阳邻域消光定律。光谱学打破了在红巨星主导的演化阶段中近红外颜色的年龄和灭绝之间的强烈简并。估计的近红外年龄在900万年到3000万年之间,即在目前的模型中,由于发光的红超巨星而产生的分子带最强的年龄。它们并不总是与光谱年龄一致。添加光学数据有时会导致拒绝太阳邻域消光定律。考虑到星团周围的小尺度结构,这并不奇怪,但它对基于近红外光谱的年龄没有显着影响。[删节]

英文摘要:

Like other starburst galaxies, M82 hosts compact, massive young star clusters that are interesting both in their own right and as benchmarks for population synthesis models. Can spectral synthesis models at resolutions around 1000 adequately reproduce the near-IR spectral features and the energy distribution of these clusters between 0.8 and 2.4 microns? How do the derived cluster properties compare with previous results from optical studies? We analyse the spectra of 5 massive clusters in M82, using data acquired with the spectrograph SpeX on the InfraRed Telescope Facility (NASA/IRTF) and a new population synthesis tool with a highly improved near-IR extension, based on a recent collection of empirical and theoretical spectra of red supergiant stars. We obtain excellent fits across the near-IR with models at quasi-solar metallicity and a solar neighbourhood extinction law. Spectroscopy breaks a strong degeneracy between age and extinction in the near-IR colours in the red supergiant-dominated phase of evolution. The estimated near-IR ages cluster between 9 and 30 Myr, i.e. the ages at which the molecular bands due to luminous red supergiants are strongest in the current models. They do not always agree with optical spectroscopic ages. Adding optical data sometimes leads to the rejection of the solar neighbourhood extinction law. This is not surprising considering small-scale structure around the clusters, but it has no significant effect on the near-IR based spectroscopic ages. [abridged]

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