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沃尔夫-拉叶星II内银道面的近红外巡天。再添71颗WR新星

A Near-Infrared Survey of the Inner Galactic Plane for Wolf-Rayet Stars II. Going Fainter: 71 More New WR Stars

Michael M. Shara, Jacqueline K. Faherty, David Zurek, Anthony F. J. Moffat, Jill Gerke, René Doyon, Etienne Artigau, Laurent Drissen

摘要:

我们正在继续对银河系平面的300平方度进行J,K和窄带成像调查,寻找新的沃尔夫-拉叶星。我们的调查跨越银河经度150度,并达到银河平面上下1度。巡天观测得到的有用的极限星等是在大部分观测到的银河平面上K = 15,在银河中心几度范围内K = 14(由于严重拥挤)。已经检测到数千条候选发射线。在对146颗相对明亮的WR候选星的光谱跟踪中,我们重新检查了11颗以前已知的WC和WN星,发现了71颗新的WR星,其中17颗WN型,54颗WC型。我们最新的图像分析管道现在以57%的成功率挑选出WR星。恒星亚型的分配已被确认与K波段光谱,距离近似使用光谱视差的方法。一些新的WR恒星是我们银河系中已知的最遥远的恒星之一。这些新WR星的分布开始沿着银河系遥远的旋臂追踪大质量恒星的位置。

英文摘要:

We are continuing a J, K and narrow-band imaging survey of 300 square degrees of the plane of the Galaxy, searching for new Wolf-Rayet stars. Our survey spans 150 degrees in Galactic longitude and reaches 1 degree above and below the Galactic plane. The survey has a useful limiting magnitude of K = 15 over most of the observed Galactic plane, and K = 14 (due to severe crowding) within a few degrees of the Galactic center. Thousands of emission line candidates have been detected. In spectrographic follow-ups of 146 relatively bright WR star candidates we have re-examined 11 previously known WC and WN stars and discovered 71 new WR stars, 17 of type WN and 54 of type WC. Our latest image analysis pipeline now picks out WR stars with a 57% success rate. Star subtype assignments have been confirmed with K band spectra, and distances approximated using the method of spectroscopic parallax. Some of the new WR stars are amongst the most distant known in our Galaxy. The distribution of these new WR stars is beginning to trace the locations of massive stars along the distant spiral arms of the Milky Way.

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