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NGC 7538中的近红外光谱

Near-infrared spectroscopy in NGC 7538

E. Puga, A. Marín-Franch, F. Najarro, A. Lenorzer, A. Herrero, J. A. Acosta Pulido, L. A. Chavarría, A. Bik, D. Figer, S. Ramírez Alegría

摘要:

恒星星族朝向年轻的高质量恒星形成区的特征使得可以限制基本的星团性质,如距离和年龄。当使用高质量星系团作为探测器进行银河系研究时,这些是必不可少的。NGC 7538是一个恒星形成区,其中嵌入的恒星星族只在近红外波段被发现。我们提出了NGC 7538中候选大质量恒星内容的第一个近红外光谱光度研究。我们在WHT上用LIRIS的多目标模式和长缝模式获得了21个源的H和K谱,并使用同一仪器的成像模式与该区域的亚弧秒JHKs测光补充了这些数据。我们在研究的NGC 7538的恒星星族中发现了各种各样的天体。我们的研究结果区分恒星星族相关的HII区域,但不包含在其范围内,和几个口袋更近的恒星形成。我们报告检测CO带头发射向几个来源,以及其他功能指示一个年轻的恒星的性质。我们推断分光光度距离为2.7+-0.5 kpc,年龄分布在0.5-2.2百万年之间,老年人口的总质量约为1.7 × 10^3 Msun。

英文摘要:

The characterisation of the stellar population toward young high-mass star-forming regions allows to constrain fundamental cluster properties like distance and age. These are essential when using high-mass clusters as probes to conduct Galactic studies. NGC 7538 is a star-forming region with an embedded stellar population only unearthed in the near-infrared. We present the first near-infrared spectro-photometric study of the candidate high-mass stellar content in NGC 7538. We obtained H and K spectra of 21 sources with both the multi-object and long-slit modes of LIRIS at the WHT, and complement these data with sub-arcsecond JHKs photometry of the region using the imaging mode of the same instrument. We find a wide variety of objects within the studied stellar population of NGC 7538. Our results discriminate between a stellar population associated to the HII region, but not contained within its extent, and several pockets of more recent star formation. We report the detection of CO bandhead emission toward several sources as well as other features indicative of a young stellar nature. We infer a spectro-photometric distance of 2.7+-0.5 kpc, an age spread in the range 0.5-2.2 Myr and a total mass ~1.7x10^3 Msun for the older population.

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