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使用Tycho-Gaia天体测量解对Chamaeleon复合体中云距离的修正估计

A revised estimate of the distance to the clouds in the Chamaeleon complex using the Tycho-Gaia Astrometric Solution

Jordan Voirin, Carlo F. Manara, Timo Prusti

摘要:

确定暗恒星形成云的距离是得出云本身及其恒星含量属性的关键参数。即使在附近的恒星形成区,这个参数仍然受到松散的限制。我们希望确定Chamaeleon-Musca复合体中云的距离,并探索这些云与银河系中大规模云结构之间的联系。我们使用盖亚卫星测量的并包含在Tycho-Gaia天体测量解决方案目录中的新估计距离。当一个区域的已知成员包含在这个目录中时,我们使用它们的视差来推断到云的距离。否则,我们分析了颜色过剩对恒星距离的依赖性,并寻找这种过剩的开启,这是恒星形成云前缘位置的代理。我们能够测量到三个变色龙云的距离。到Chamaeleon I的距离是179 pc,比以前假设的要远20 pc。Chamaeleon II云位于181 pc的距离,这与之前的估计一致。我们能够首次测量到199 pc的Chamaeleon III云的距离。最后,苍蝇云的距离小于603 pc。这些估计并不允许我们区分变色龙云是平行于银道面的一片云的一部分,还是垂直于银道面的一片云的一部分。盖亚数据发布2将允许我们对这些云的距离施加更严格的限制,让我们能够获得这些区域中大量成员的视差测量。

英文摘要:

The determination of the distance to dark star-forming clouds is a key parameter to derive the properties of the cloud itself, and of its stellar content. This parameter is still loosely constrained even in nearby star-forming regions. We want to determine the distances to the clouds in the Chamaeleon-Musca complex and to explore the connection between these clouds and the large scale cloud structures in the galaxy. We use the newly estimated distances obtained from the parallaxes measured by the Gaia satellite and included in the Tycho-Gaia Astrometric Solution catalog. When known members of a region are included in this catalog we use their parallaxes to infer the distance to the cloud. Otherwise, we analyze the dependence of the color excess on the distance of the stars and look for a turn-on of this excess, which is a proxy of the position of the front-edge of the star-forming cloud. We are able to measure the distance to the three Chamaeleon clouds. The distance to Chamaeleon I is 179 pc, 20 pc further away than previously assumed. The Chamaeleon II cloud is located at the distance of 181 pc, which agrees with previous estimates. We are able to measure for the first time a distance to the Chamaeleon III cloud of 199 pc. Finally, the distance of the Musca cloud is smaller than 603 pc. These estimates do not allow us to distinguish between the possibility that the Chamaeleon clouds are part of a sheet of clouds parallel to the galactic plane, or perpendicular to it. Gaia Data Release 2 will allow us to put more stringent constraints on the distances to these clouds by giving us access to parallax measurements for a larger number of members of these regions.

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