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半人马座的一颗新的沃尔夫-拉叶星

A New Galactic Wolf-Rayet Star in Centaurus

A. Roman-Lopes

摘要:

在这项工作中,我传达了一个新的银河系沃尔夫-拉叶星(WR 60 a)在半人马座的检测。WR 60 a的H-和K-波段光谱显示出强烈的碳近红外发射线,这是WC 5 -7亚型沃尔夫-拉叶星的特征。采用平均绝对星等M $_K$和平均内禀($J-K_S$)和($H-K_S$)的颜色,发现WR 60 a遭受3.8 $\pm$ 1.3等的平均视消光,位于5.2 $\pm$ 0.8千秒差距的可能日心距离,对于相关的银河经度(l=312),这颗恒星可能位于船底座-人马座臂,距离银河系中心约5.9 kpc。我在WR 60 a附近搜索星团,原则上在几十弧分的搜索半径范围内没有发现以前已知的星团。一个隔离良好的WR星的探测促使我们在WR 60 a附近的某个地方寻找一些仍然未知的星团。通过对WR新星周围5.8 $μ$ m和8.0 $μ$ m Spitzer/IRAC GLIMPSE图像的检查,发现在WR 60 a西南约13.5弧分处有强烈的中红外扩展发射。对与扩展发射有关的点源的H-K $_S$颜色分布的研究揭示了一个新的星系团候选者的存在,该候选者可能由至少85颗恒星组成。

英文摘要:

In this work I communicate the detection of a new Galactic Wolf-Rayet star (WR60a) in Centaurus. The H- and K-band spectra of WR60a, show strong carbon near-infrared emission lines, characteristic of Wolf-Rayet stars of the WC5-7 sub-type. Adopting mean absolute magnitude M$_K$ and mean intrinsic ($J-K_S$) and ($H-K_S$) colours, it was found that WR60a suffer a mean visual extinction of 3.8$\pm$1.3 magnitudes, being located at a probable heliocentric distance of 5.2$\pm$0.8 Kpc, which for the related Galactic longitude (l=312) puts this star probably in the Carina-Sagittarius arm at about 5.9 kpc from the Galactic center. I searched for clusters in the vicinity of WR60a, and in principle found no previously known clusters in a search radius region of several tens arc-minutes. The detection of a well isolated WR star induced us to seek for some still unknown cluster, somewhere in the vicinity of WR60a. From inspection of 5.8$μ$m and 8.0$μ$m Spitzer/IRAC GLIMPSE images of the region around the new WR star, it was found strong mid-infrared extended emission at about 13.5 arcmin south-west of WR60a. The study of the the H-K$_S$ colour distribution of point sources associated with the extended emission, reveals the presence of a new Galactic cluster candidate probably formed by at least 85 stars.

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