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Milky Way项目:利用DR2的黄球初步结果探测恒星形成

The Milky Way Project: Probing Star Formation with First Results on Yellowballs from DR2

Grace Wolf-Chase, C. R. Kerton, Kathryn Devine, Anupa Pouydal, Johanna Mori, Leonardo Trujillo, Aurora Cossairt, Sarah Schoultz, Tharindu Jayasinghe, Matthew Povich

摘要:

黄球(YBs)是在银河系计划公民科学倡议期间首次发现的(MWP; Simpson et al. 2012)。MWP用户注意到斯皮策太空望远镜中红外(MIR)银河系平面图像中紧凑的黄色区域,并要求专业天文学家解释这些“黄色球”。Kerton等人(2015)的后续工作确定,YBs可能会追踪与大质量和中等质量恒星形成相关的致密光解离区域。YB被列为2016年启动的银河系项目(Jayasinghe et al. 2016)的目标对象,该项目列出了超过6000个YB位置。我们已经测量了距离,交叉匹配协会,物理性质,和MIR颜色的约500个YBs的试点区域内覆盖的l= 30 - 40度,b= +/- 1度的银河平面的区域。我们发现,在我们的试点地区的20-30%的YBs包含高质量的恒星形成能够成为扩大H II区域,产生MIR气泡。大多数YB代表中等质量的恒星形成区域,其在进化图中的位置表明它们仍在活跃地吸积,并且可能是光学显示的Herbig Ae/Be星云的前身。许多这些中等质量的Yb被大质量恒星形成示踪剂的调查所遗漏,因此这个目录提供了许多新的恒星形成地点的信息。未来的工作将扩大这一试点地区的分析,以整个YB目录。

英文摘要:

Yellowballs (YBs) were first discovered during the Milky Way Project citizen-science initiative (MWP; Simpson et al. 2012). MWP users noticed compact, yellow regions in Spitzer Space Telescope mid-infrared (MIR) images of the Milky Way plane and asked professional astronomers to explain these "yellow balls." Follow-up work by Kerton et al. (2015) determined that YBs likely trace compact photo-dissociation regions associated with massive and intermediate-mass star formation. YBs were included as target objects in a version of the Milky Way Project launched in 2016 (Jayasinghe et al. 2016), which produced a listing of over 6000 YB locations. We have measured distances, cross-match associations, physical properties, and MIR colors of ~500 YBs within a pilot region covering the l= 30 - 40 degrees, b= +/- 1 degree region of the Galactic plane. We find 20-30% of YBs in our pilot region contain high-mass star formation capable of becoming expanding H II regions that produce MIR bubbles. A majority of YBs represent intermediate-mass star-forming regions whose placement in evolutionary diagrams suggest they are still actively accreting, and may be precursors to optically-revealed Herbig Ae/Be nebulae. Many of these intermediate-mass YBs were missed by surveys of massive star-formation tracers and thus this catalog provides information for many new sites of star formation. Future work will expand this pilot region analysis to the entire YB catalog.

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