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用非常年轻的星团估算图象速度

Estimation of pattern speed using very young, stellar clusters

P. Grosbol, H. Dottori

摘要:

在60年代,Stroemgren教授提出利用中等年轻恒星的空间速度和年龄来计算它们的形成地点,以研究银河系中的螺旋结构。我们已经把这个想法扩展到了附近盘状星系中非常年轻的星团。大型螺旋星系的近红外(NIR)K波段图像经常显示出沿着螺旋臂的明亮节点。NGC 2997中的这些节点已经被JHK测光和K波段光谱确定为年龄小于1000万年的大质量星团。这些星系团的年龄可以由JHK光度法估算。它们与旋臂的方位角距离,如在K波段测量的,与它们的年龄相关,这表明可以推导出底层密度波的模式速度。利用VLT数据对总体设计的螺旋星系NGC 2997进行了验证。

英文摘要:

In the 60's, Prof. Stroemgren proposed to use space velocities and ages of moderately young stars to compute their places of formation in order to study the spiral structure in the Galaxy. We have extended this idea to very young stellar clusters in nearby disk galaxies. Near-infrared (NIR) K-band images of grand-design spiral galaxies often show bright knots along their spiral arms. Such knots in NGC 2997 have been identified as massive stellar clusters with ages of less than 10 Myr using JHK photometry and K-band spectra. Ages of these clusters can be estimated from JHK photometry. Their azimuthal distances from the spiral arms, as measured in the K-band, correlates with their ages suggesting that the pattern speed of an underlying density wave can be derived. This method is tested on the grand-design spiral NGC 2997 using VLT data.

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