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通过2 MASS +Spitzer/GLIMPSE识别的12颗新的银河系沃尔夫-拉叶星

12 New Galactic Wolf-Rayet Stars Identified via 2MASS+Spitzer/GLIMPSE

Jon C. Mauerhan, Schuyler D. Van Dyk, Pat W. Morris

摘要:

我们报告的新结果,我们的努力,以确定模糊的沃尔夫-拉叶星在银河系。候选者是通过他们的近红外(2 MASS)和中红外(斯皮策/GLIMPSE)颜色过剩,这是一致的自由自由发射电离恒星风和热尘埃的热过剩。我们已经确认了银河系圆盘中的12颗新沃尔夫-拉叶星,包括9颗氮亚型(WN)和3颗碳亚型(WC);这使我们发现的沃尔夫-拉叶星总数增加到27颗。我们将其中一颗新星归类为可能产生尘埃的WC 9d +OBI碰撞风双星,这一点可以通过类似于已知WC 9d恒星的红外过量,叠加在WC 9光谱上的OBI特征的检测以及XMM-牛顿检测到的硬X射线发射来证明。在我们的样本中,一颗WC 8星似乎是星团Danks 1的成员,与其他被证实的沃尔夫-拉叶星形成对比,这些恒星通常不存在于致密的星团中。大多数恒星要么是从星团中逃出来的,要么是在相对孤立的情况下形成的。我们简要地讨论了扩大和改善整个银河系的沃尔夫-拉叶星搜索的前景。

英文摘要:

We report new results from our effort to identify obscured Wolf-Rayet stars in the Galaxy. Candidates were selected by their near-infrared (2MASS) and mid-infrared (Spitzer/GLIMPSE) color excesses, which are consistent with free-free emission from ionized stellar winds and thermal excess from hot dust. We have confirmed 12 new Wolf-Rayet stars in the Galactic disk, including 9 of the nitrogen subtype (WN), and 3 of the carbon subtype (WC); this raises the total number of Wolf-Rayet stars discovered with our approach to 27. We classify one of the new stars as a possible dust-producing WC9d+OBI colliding-wind binary, as evidenced by an infrared excess resembling that of known WC9d stars, the detection of OBI features superimposed on the WC9 spectrum, and hard X-ray emission detected by XMM-Newton. A WC8 star in our sample appears to be a member of the stellar cluster Danks 1, in contrast to the rest of the confirmed Wolf-Rayet stars that generally do not appear to reside within dense stellar clusters. Either the majority of the stars are runaways from clusters, or they formed in relative isolation. We briefly discuss prospects for the expansion and improvement of the search for Wolf-Rayet stars throughout the Milky Way Galaxy.

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