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来自2 MASS的新候选大质量星团

New Candidate Massive Clusters from 2MASS

D. Froebrich

摘要:

大质量恒星对于星际介质的演化非常重要。对它们的性质(如质量损失、旋转、磁场)的详细研究,极大地促进了这些天体在年轻的大质量星系星团中的样本。使用2 MASS,我们已经沿着银道面搜索了迄今为止未知的红超巨星星团候选者。利用深高分辨率UKIDSS GPS和VISTA VVV数据研究颜色星等图,我们发现了6个新的大规模集群候选人在银河系内部。如果光谱证实是真实的星团,其中两个可能是盾牌复合体的一部分。其中一个星团候选者有许多潜在的红超巨星成员,与RSGC 1和3相当。我们对UKIDSS数据的研究首次揭示了大规模星系团RSGC 2的主序。该序列中的恒星在与星团中已知的红超巨星相同的位置显示出增加的投影密度,E(J-K)= 1.6等。这要么表明一个不寻常的消光定律沿视线或低得多的近红外消光到集群比以前估计的文献。我们认为,psf测光UKIDSS图像可能能够揭示其他RSGC集群的主要序列。

英文摘要:

Massive stars are important for the evolution of the interstellar medium. The detailed study of their properties (such as mass loss, rotation, magnetic fields) is enormously facilitated by samples of these objects in young massive galactic star clusters. Using 2MASS we have searched for so far unknown candidates of red supergiant clusters along the Galactic Plane. Utilising deep high resolution UKIDSS GPS and VISTA VVV data to study colour-magnitude diagrams, we uncover six new massive cluster candidates in the inner Galaxy. If spectroscopically confirmed as real clusters, two of them could be part of the Scutum-Complex. One cluster candidate has a number of potential red supergiant members comparable to RSGC1 and 3. Our investigation of UKIDSS data reveals for the first time the main sequence of the massive cluster RSGC2. The stars of the sequence show an increased projected density at the same position as the known red supergiants in the cluster and have E(J-K)=1.6mag. This either indicates an unusual extinction law along the line of sight or a much lower near infrared extinction to the cluster than previously estimated in the literature. We suggest that psf-photometry in UKIDSS images might be able to uncover the main sequence of other RSGC clusters.

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