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Spitzer对NGC2264的观测:盘星群的性质

Spitzer observations of NGC2264: The nature of the disk population

P. S. Teixeira, C. J. Lada, M. Marengo, E. A. Lada

摘要:

NGC 2264是一个年轻的星团,具有丰富的星周盘,是研究星团演化的理想目标。我们的目标是研究它的恒星形成历史,并分析其成员的原始盘演化。该研究是基于斯皮策IRAC和MIPS获得的数据,结合深近红外地面FLAMINGOS成像和以前发表的光学数据。我们绘制了与该星团相关的分子云的近红外尘埃消光图,并确定它的质量为2.1 × 10^3 Msun,Av为7等。利用K_s波段的光度函数,我们估计该星系团的总成员数为1436个$\pm$ 242。恒星形成效率约为25%。我们确定磁盘人口:(一)光学厚的内部磁盘,(二)贫血的内部磁盘,和(三)磁盘与内部孔,或过渡磁盘。我们分析了这些源的空间分布,发现厚磁盘的源分离成子集群,而贫血磁盘的源不。此外,发现具有贫血磁盘的源未嵌入(Av <3mag),而具有厚磁盘的集群源仍然嵌入在父云中。NGC2264经历了不止一次的恒星形成事件,其中贫血的厚盘人口似乎已经形成了单独的事件。我们还发现了狐狸毛皮星云中触发恒星形成的初步证据。在磁盘演化方面,我们的研究结果支持新兴的磁盘演化范式的两个不同的演化路径原始光学厚磁盘:一个同源的磁盘发射均匀地减少在近红外和中红外波长,和一个径向差分的磁盘的内部区域的发射比从外部区域(形成过渡磁盘)更迅速地减少。

英文摘要:

NGC2264 is a young cluster with a rich circumstellar disk population which makes it an ideal target for studying the evolution of stellar clusters. Our goal is to study its star formation history and to analyse the primordial disk evolution of its members. The study presented is based on data obtained with Spitzer IRAC and MIPS, combined with deep NIR ground-based FLAMINGOS imaging and previously published optical data. We build NIR dust extinction maps of the molecular cloud associated with the cluster, and determine it to have a mass of 2.1x10^3Msun above an Av of 7mag. Using a differential K_s-band luminosity function of the cluster, we estimate the size of its population to be 1436$\pm$242 members. The star formation efficiency is ~25%. We identify the disk population: (i) optically thick inner disks, (ii) anaemic inner disks, and (iii) disks with inner holes, or transition disks. We analyse the spatial distribution of these sources and find that sources with thick disks segregate into sub-clusterings, whereas sources with anaemic disks do not. Furthermore, sources with anaemic disks are found to be unembedded (Av<3mag), whereas the clustered sources with thick disks are still embedded within the parental cloud. NGC2264 has undergone more than one star-forming event, where the anaemic and extincted thick disk population appear to have formed in separate episodes. We also find tentative evidence of triggered star-formation in the Fox Fur Nebula. In terms of disk evolution, our findings support the emerging disk evolution paradigm of two distinct evolutionary paths for primordial optically thick disks: a homologous one where the disk emission decreases uniformly at NIR and MIR wavelengths, and a radially differential one where the emission from the inner region of the disk decreases more rapidly than from the outer region (forming transition disks).

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