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高度红化Milky Way星团的独立模型诊断:年龄校正

Model-Independent Diagnostics of Highly Reddened Milky Way Star Clusters: Age Calibration

Yuri Beletsky, Giovanni Carraro, Valentin D. Ivanov

摘要:

下一代近红外和中红外银河系巡天将产生大量新的高度模糊的星团。用光谱学对这些新物体进行详细的表征是耗时的。将需要能够仅根据现有光度测定来确定星团特征的诊断工具,以研究新发现天体的大样本。红团和主序关断点之间的亮度差已被用来作为一个模型独立的年龄校准器的年龄从几个10 $^8$到10 $^{10}$年的光学集群。在这里,我们第一次在近红外应用的方法。我们校准了这种差异的$K$带,这是可能的模糊集群,我们将其应用到一些测试集群与光度相媲美,将产生的当前或不久的将来的调查。新的校准产生可靠的年龄范围内的年龄,其中红色团块是目前在集群。该关系的斜率比相应的$V$ -带关系的斜率更平滑,减少了相对于光学年龄测定的不确定性。

英文摘要:

The next generation near- and mid-infrared Galactic surveys will yield a large number of new highly obscured star clusters. Detailed characterization of these new objects with spectroscopy is time-consuming. Diagnostic tools that will be able to characterize clusters based only on the available photometry will be needed to study large samples of the newly found objects. The brightness difference between the red clump and the main-sequence turn-off point have been used as a model-independent age calibrator for clusters with ages from a few 10$^8$ to 10$^{10}$ yr in the optical. Here we apply for the first time the method in the near-infrared. We calibrated this difference in $K$-band, which is likely to be available for obscured clusters, and we apply it to a number of test clusters with photometry comparable to the one that will be yielded by the current or near-future surveys. The new calibration yields reliable ages over the range of ages for which the red clump is present in clusters. The slope of the relation is smoother than that of the corresponding $V$-band relation, reducing the uncertainty in the age determinations with respect to the optical ones.

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