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巨蛇座云核和NGC 1333中年轻恒星天体的光谱研究

A Spectroscopic Study of Young Stellar Objects in the Serpens Cloud Core and NGC 1333

E. Winston, S. T. Megeath, S. J. Wolk, J. Hernandez, R. Gutermuth, J. Muzerolle, J. L. Hora, K. Covey, L. E. Allen, B. Spitzbart, D. Peterson, P. Myers, G. G. Fazio

摘要:

我们目前的光谱观测的130个年轻的恒星物体(YSO)的巨蛇座云核心和NGC 1333嵌入式集群。观测结果包括来自IRTF上的SpeX的H和K波段的近红外光谱和来自MMT上的Hectospec的远红外光谱(6000 - 9000 A)。这些YSO在以前的斯皮策和钱德拉观测中被确定,并从斯皮策中红外测光确定了YSO的进化类别。有了这些光谱,我们寻找确凿的证据前主要序列的性质的对象,研究检测到的发射线作为一个功能的演化类的属性,并获得光谱类型的观测到的YSO。通过比较YSO在HR图中的位置与Baraffe(1998)的前主序径迹,确定了嵌入源的年龄,并研究了有和无光学厚盘的YSO的相对年龄。这两个星团中的YSO的等时线年龄范围从小于100万年到1000万年,大多数天体低于300万年。观察到的II类和III类物体的年龄分布在统计上是无法区分的。我们研究的空间分布和灭绝的YSO作为其等时年龄的函数。我们发现来源< 3百万年集中在分子云气体,而较老的来源是空间分散的,并没有深深嵌入。尽管如此,等时年龄大于300万年的源在光谱、红外光谱能量分布和X射线发射方面显示出年轻恒星天体的所有特征。

英文摘要:

We present spectral observations of 130 young stellar objects (YSOs) in the Serpens Cloud Core and NGC 1333 embedded clusters. The observations consist of near-IR spectra in the H and K-bands, from SpeX on the IRTF and far-red spectra (6000 - 9000 A) from Hectospec on the MMT. These YSOs were identified in previous Spitzer and Chandra observations, and the evolutionary classes of the YSOs were determined from the Spitzer mid-IR photometry. With these spectra, we search for corroborating evidence for the pre-main sequence nature of the objects, study the properties of the detected emission lines as a function of evolutionary class, and obtain spectral types for the observed YSOs. By comparing the positions of the YSOs in the HR diagrams with the pre-main sequence tracks of Baraffe (1998), we determine ages of the embedded sources and study the relative ages of the YSOs with and without optically thick circumstellar disks. The apparent isochronal ages of the YSOs in both clusters range from less than 1 Myr to 10 Myr, with most objects below 3 Myr. The observed distribution of ages for the Class II and Class III objects are statistically indistinguishable. We examine the spatial distribution and extinction of the YSOs as a function of their isochronal ages. We find the sources < 3 Myr to be concentrated in the molecular cloud gas while the older sources are spatially dispersed and are not deeply embedded. Nonetheless, the sources with isochronal ages > 3 Myr show all the characteristics of young stellar objects in their spectra, their IR spectral energy distributions, and their X-ray emission.

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