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arXiv 1209.3787astro-ph.GAastro-ph.SR
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猎户座重访-一。猎户座星云团前面的巨大星团

Orion Revisited - I. The massive cluster in front of the Orion Nebula Cluster

J. Alves, H. Bouy

摘要:

这项工作的目的是表征地球和猎户座A分子云之间的恒星星族,其中著名的恒星形成基准猎户座星云团(ONC)嵌入。我们利用猎户座A云的密度较大的区域来阻挡光学背景光,有效地隔离了它前面的恒星星族,然后使用多波长观测方法来表征云的前景恒星星族。我们发现在猎户座A云的前面有丰富的恒星星族,从B星到M星,猎户座A云内部变红的恒星族具有不同的1)空间分布,2)光度函数,3)速度色散。这个星族的空间分布在NGC 1980(猎户座i)附近达到了最高峰,并且很可能是这个研究很少的星团的扩展恒星内容。我们推断NGC 1980的年龄约为4- 500万年,估计星团数量约为2000颗恒星,这使其成为整个猎户座复合体中质量最大的星团之一。目前在文献中被认为是ONC的是几个本质上不同的星群的混合体,即:1)最年轻的星群,包括梯形星团和星云内致密气体中正在形成的恒星,2)前景星群,主要是NGC 1980星团,3)前景和背景银河场恒星的星群。我们的结果支持ONC和L1641 N与NGC 1980没有直接联系的情况,即,它们不是从其母体云中出现的同一种群,而是不同的重叠种群。这一结果要求对基准ONC区域中的大多数观测值进行修订(例如,年龄、年龄分布、簇大小、质量函数、盘频率等)。(节略)

英文摘要:

The aim of this work is to characterize the stellar population between Earth and the Orion A molecular cloud where the well known star formation benchmark Orion Nebula Cluster (ONC) is embedded. We use the denser regions the Orion A cloud to block optical background light, effectively isolating the stellar population in front of it. We then use a multi-wavelength observational approach to characterize the cloud's foreground stellar population. We find that there is a rich stellar population in front of the Orion A cloud, from B-stars to M-stars, with a distinct 1) spatial distribution, 2) luminosity function, and 3) velocity dispersion from the reddened population inside the Orion A cloud. The spatial distribution of this population peaks strongly around NGC 1980 (iota Ori) and is, in all likelihood, the extended stellar content of this poorly studied cluster. We infer an age of ~4-5 Myr for NGC 1980 and estimate a cluster population of the order of 2000 stars, which makes it one of the most massive clusters in the entire Orion complex. What is currently taken in the literature as the ONC is then a mix of several intrinsically different populations, namely: 1) the youngest population, including the Trapezium cluster and ongoing star formation in the dense gas inside the nebula, 2) the foreground population, dominated by the NGC 1980 cluster, and 3) the poorly constrained population of foreground and background Galactic field stars. Our results support a scenario where the ONC and L1641N are not directly associated with NGC 1980, i.e., they are not the same population emerging from its parental cloud, but are instead distinct overlapping populations. This result calls for a revision of most of the observables in the benchmark ONC region (e.g., ages, age spread, cluster size, mass function, disk frequency, etc.). (abridged)

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