Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy
Scientific paper
Mar 1994
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1994aj....107.1054m&link_type=abstract
Astronomical Journal (ISSN 0004-6256), vol. 107, no. 3, p. 1054-1066
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astronomy
82
Astronomical Photometry, Color-Color Diagram, Color-Magnitude Diagram, Images, Ionization, Luminous Intensity, Magellanic Clouds, Mass Distribution, Star Formation, Calibrating, Cameras, Hubble Space Telescope, Optical Filters, Photometers, Point Spread Functions
Scientific paper
We report on Planetary Camera observations of the central region of 30 Doradus in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC). These images of 30 Doradus are the first `deep' Hubble Space Telescope (HST) exposures that have appropriate photometric calibration. The B band (F439W) image, which shows R136a at the center of the PC6 charge coupled device (CCD) chip, reveals over 200 stars within 3 sec of the center of R13a, and over 800 stars in a 35 sec x 35 sec area. We used Malumuth et al.'s (1991) Point Spread Function (PSF)-fitting method to measure the magnitudes of all stars on the PC6 chip. These new B magnitudes, along with U and V magnitudes from archival PC images, yield a luminosity function, mass density profile, and initial mass function of the 30 Doradus ionizing cluster. The mass distribution is well fit by a King model with a core radius, Rc = 0.96 sec (0.24 pc), a tidal radius, Rt = 110 sec (28 pc), and a total mass, Mass = 16,800 solar mass. Both the luminosity function and initial mass function show evidence for mass segregation, in the sense that the central region has a higher fraction of massive stars than the outer regions. This is the first observational evidence for mass segregation in a very young cluster (age approximately 3 million years). The observations admit the hypothesis that the mass segregation occurred in the process of star formation and/or that the mass segregation is the result of dynamical evolution.
Heap Sara R.
Malumuth Eliot M.
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