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大麦云星云中的高质量和中等质量的年轻天体

High and Intermediate-Mass Young Stellar Objects in the Large Magellanic Cloud

Robert A. Gruendl, You-Hua Chu

摘要:

(节略)斯皮策对大麦云(LMC)的档案观测的测光用于寻找年轻恒星物体(YSO)。简单的中红外选择标准被用来排除大多数正常和演化的恒星和背景星系。我们在LMC中确定了2,910个可能是YSO的源样本。然后,我们同时考虑了从光学到中红外波长的图像和光度测量,以评估源的形态,光谱能量分布(SED)和周围的星际环境,以确定每个源的最可能的性质。通过对初始样本的检查,我们认为1,172个源最有可能是YSO和1,075个可能的背景星系,与基于SWIRE调查数据的预期一致。斯皮策IRS对我们样本中269颗最亮的YSO的观测证实了~>95%确实是YSO。SAGE团队还在LMC中进行了全面的YSO搜索。这两种搜索之间有三个主要区别。(1)在色星等空间的公共区域,SAGE YSO目录中遗漏了我们的1,172个可能的YSO中的约850个,因为他们保守的点源识别标准排除了叠加在复杂漫射发射上的YSO。(2)SAGE团队确定的YSO中约有20-30%是我们归类为背景星系的来源。(3)SAGE YSO星表在我们排除的颜色星等空间的部分中识别YSO,因此包含我们的分析遗漏的更进化或更暗的YSO。最后,大麦哲伦星系中最有可能的YSO候选天体的中红外光度函数可以用N(L)propto L^-1来很好地描述,如果采用L propto M ^-2.4的质量-光度关系,这与萨尔皮特的初始质量函数是一致的。

英文摘要:

(Abridged) Photometry of archival Spitzer observations of the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) are used to search for young stellar objects (YSOs). Simple mid-infrared selection criteria were used to exclude most normal and evolved stars and background galaxies. We identify a sample of 2,910 sources in the LMC that could potentially be YSOs. We then simultaneously considered images and photometry from the optical through mid-IR wavelengths to assess the source morphology, spectral energy distribution (SED), and the surrounding interstellar environment to determine the most likely nature of each source. From this examination of the initial sample, we suggest 1,172 sources are most likely YSOs and 1,075 probable background galaxies, consistent with expectations based on SWIRE survey data. Spitzer IRS observations of 269 of the brightest YSOs from our sample have confirmed that ~>95% are indeed YSOs. A comprehensive search for YSOs in the LMC has also been carried out by the SAGE team. There are three major differences between these two searches. (1) In the common region of color-magnitude space, ~850 of our 1,172 probable YSOs are missed in the SAGE YSO catalog because their conservative point source identification criteria have excluded YSOs superposed on complex diffuse emission. (2) About 20-30% of the YSOs identified by the SAGE team are sources we classify as background galaxies. (3) the SAGE YSO catalog identifies YSO in parts of color-magnitude space that we excluded and thus contains more evolved or fainter YSOs missed by our analysis. Finally, the mid-IR luminosity functions of our most likely YSO candidates in the LMC can be well described by N(L) propto L^-1, which is consistent with the Salpeter initial mass function if a mass-luminosity relation of L propto M^2.4 is adopted.

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