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分子气体和遥远外星系中的一个新的年轻星团

Molecular gas and a new young stellar cluster in the far outer Galaxy

Joao L. Yun, Davide Elia, Pedro M. Palmeirim, Joana I. Gomes, Andre M. Martins

摘要:

我们研究了在银河系远外围分子云[MAB 97]250.63-3.63中朝向IRAS 07527 -3446的区域中发生的恒星形成。我们报道了一个新的年轻星团的发现,并描述了它的性质和它的母体分子云的性质。用VLT/ISAAC获得近红外JHKS图像,用SEST望远镜获得毫米线CO光谱。还使用了VLA存档日期。星云和星团位于银河系的最外层,距离10.3千秒差距,银河系中心距离15.4千秒差距。从形态上看,IRAS 07527-3446是一个年轻的嵌入星团,由几百颗恒星组成,朝向IRAS源的位置,延伸约2-4 pc,并显示出子星团。该星团包含低质量和中等质量的年轻红化恒星,其中很大一部分已经清除了造成(H-Ks)颜色过剩的拱星盘内部区域。观测结果与<500万年的星团相容,其空间消光系数在Av = 5和Av = 11之间。对CO排放的团块分解,揭示了一个明显与星团位置相关的团块,质量为3.3 x 10^3 M(太阳)。KS波段光度函数的斜率和恒星形成效率的估计值与附近恒星形成地点的估计值相似。这些发现加强了以前的结果,即遥远的外银河系继续活跃在新的和丰富的星团的生产,与丰富的星团形成所需的物理条件继续在非常遥远的环境中满足外银河系盘。

英文摘要:

We investigate the star-formation ocurring in the region towards IRAS07527-3446 in the molecular cloud [MAB97]250.63-3.63, in the far outer Galaxy. We report the discovery of a new young stellar cluster, and describe its properties and those of its parent molecular cloud. Near-infrared JHKS images were obtained with VLT/ISAAC, and millimetre line CO spectra were obtained with the SEST telescope. VLA archive date were also used. The cloud and cluster are located at a distance of 10.3 kpc and a Galactocentric distance of 15.4 kpc, in the far outer Galaxy. Morphologically, IRAS 07527-3446 appears as a young embedded cluster of a few hundred stars seen towards the position of the IRAS source, extending for about 2-4 pc and exhibiting sub-clustering. The cluster contains low and intermediate-mass young reddened stars, a large fraction having cleared the inner regions of their circumstellar discs responsible for (H-Ks) colour excess. The observations are compatible with a < 5 Myr cluster with variable spatial extinction of between Av = 5 and Av = 11. Decomposition of CO emission in clumps, reveals a clump clearly associated with the cluster position, of mass 3.3 x 10^3 M(solar). Estimates of the slopes of the Ks-band luminosity function and of the star-formation efficiency yield values similar to those seen in nearby star-formation sites. These findings reinforce previous results that the distant outer Galaxy continues to be active in the production of new and rich stellar clusters, with the physical conditions required for the formation of rich clusters continuing to be met in the very distant environment of the outer Galactic disc.

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