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星云连续谱和线发射在年轻大质量星团观测中的重要性

The Importance of Nebular Continuum and Line Emission in Observations of Young Massive Star Clusters

Amy E. Reines, David L. Nidever, David G. Whelan, Kelsey E. Johnson

摘要:

在这个光谱学研究的婴儿大质量星团,我们发现,连续发射的电离气体竞争对手的恒星光度在光学波长。此外,我们发现星云线发射在许多常用的宽带HST滤波器,包括F814 W I波段,F555 W V波段和F435 W B波段是显着的。NGC 4449中的两个年轻的大质量星团(YMC)是在Reines等人(2008 a)在对银河系中的射电探测到的星团进行光度学研究时发现F814 W I波段过剩后进行光谱观测的目标。光谱是用3.5米APO望远镜上的双成像光谱仪获得的。我们补充这些数据与HST和SDSS测光。通过比较我们的数据Starburst 99和GALEV模型,我们发现,在我们的观测中,星云的连续辐射与恒星光的竞争,并在U-和I-波段的相对贡献是最大的,那里的Balmer和Paschen跳跃的位置。光谱还表现出强的线发射,包括HST F814 W I带中的[SIII] 9069,9532线。我们发现,星云连续谱和线发射的结合可以解释Reines等人(2008 a)发现的F814 W I波段过剩。在努力提供一个基准,估计电离气体排放的影响测光观测的YMC,我们计算的恒星连续,星云连续,和发射线的总通量的3百万岁的集群通过各种HST过滤器/仪器组合,包括过滤器在WFC 3的相对贡献。在比较YMC的观测与演化合成模型时,我们敦促谨慎,因为星云发射可能对年轻(<500万年)星团的大小和颜色产生很大影响,显著影响推断的性质,如年龄,质量和亮度。(节录)

英文摘要:

In this spectroscopic study of infant massive star clusters, we find that continuum emission from ionized gas rivals the stellar luminosity at optical wavelengths. In addition, we find that nebular line emission is significant in many commonly used broad-band HST filters including the F814W I-band, the F555W V-band and the F435W B-band. Two young massive clusters (YMCs) in NGC 4449 were targeted for spectroscopic observations after Reines et al. (2008a) discovered an F814W I-band excess in their photometric study of radio-detected clusters in the galaxy. The spectra were obtained with the Dual Imaging Spectrograph on the 3.5 m APO telescope. We supplement these data with HST and SDSS photometry. By comparing our data to the Starburst99 and GALEV models, we find that nebular continuum emission competes with the stellar light in our observations and that the relative contribution is largest in the U- and I-bands, where the Balmer and Paschen jumps are located. The spectra also exhibit strong line emission including the [SIII] 9069,9532 lines in the HST F814W I-band. We find that the combination of nebular continuum and line emission can account for the F814W I-band excess found by Reines et al. (2008a). In an effort to provide a benchmark for estimating the impact of ionized gas emission on photometric observations of YMCs, we compute the relative contributions of the stellar continuum, nebular continuum, and emission lines to the total flux of a 3 Myr-old cluster through various HST filter/instrument combinations, including filters in the WFC3. We urge caution when comparing observations of YMCs to evolutionary synthesis models since nebular emission can have a large impact on magnitudes and colors of young (< 5 Myr) clusters, significantly affecting inferred properties such as ages, masses and extinctions. (Abridged)

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