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到暗云的距离:消光距离与脉泽视差距离的比较

Distances to Dark Clouds: Comparing Extinction Distances to Maser Parallax Distances

Jonathan B. Foster, Joseph J. Stead, Robert A. Benjamin, Melvin G. Hoare, James M. Jackson

摘要:

我们测试了两种不同的方法,使用近红外消光估计距离在银河系的第一象限使用大型近红外(2MASS和UKIDSS)调查的乌云。大质量年轻恒星周围脉泽的VLBI视差测量提供了到这些暗云的距离的最直接和无偏差的测量。我们比较这些脉泽视差距离的消光距离估计。我们还比较了这些距离的运动学距离,包括最近重新校准的银河系旋转曲线。消光距离方法与脉泽视差距离(误差范围内)在66%到100%的时间(取决于方法和输入调查)和85%到100%的时间在拥挤的银河系中心之外的时间之间一致。虽然样本量很小,消光距离方法再现脉泽视差距离比运动学距离更好,此外,消光距离方法不遭受从运动学距离的模糊性。这种验证给了我们信心,这些消光方法可以扩展到其他的暗云脉泽散射是不可用的。

英文摘要:

We test two different methods of using near-infrared extinction to estimate distances to dark clouds in the first quadrant of the Galaxy using large near infrared (2MASS and UKIDSS) surveys. VLBI parallax measurements of masers around massive young stars provide the most direct and bias-free measurement of the distance to these dark clouds. We compare the extinction distance estimates to these maser parallax distances. We also compare these distances to kinematic distances, including recent re-calibrations of the Galactic rotation curve. The extinction distance methods agree with the maser parallax distances (within the errors) between 66% and 100% of the time (depending on method and input survey) and between 85% and 100% of the time outside of the crowded Galactic center. Although the sample size is small, extinction distance methods reproduce maser parallax distances better than kinematic distances; furthermore, extinction distance methods do not suffer from the kinematic distance ambiguity. This validation gives us confidence that these extinction methods may be extended to additional dark clouds where maser parallaxes are not available.

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