Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy
Scientific paper
Dec 2002
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2002aas...20113607w&link_type=abstract
American Astronomical Society, 201st AAS Meeting, #136.07; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 34, p.1320
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astronomy
Scientific paper
We report on results of a 96.7 ks Chandra observation of one of the youngest, most embedded and massive young stellar clusters studied to date in X-rays -- RCW 38. We find a region of extended emission about 1.25 pc x 1.75 pc. The emission is consistent with synchrotron emission. The power index of the emission steepens toward the cluster core implying that the magnetic field originates there. This is the first evidence of synchrotron emission filling a region of active star formation. The source of the necessary magnetic field is unclear. We measure the hydrogen column to the emission and find NH increases from 7.6 x 1021 cm-2 to 1.61 x 1022 cm-2 increasing from the northwest to the southeast quadrants of the cluster, consistent with near-infrared extinction data. The work is supported by the Chandra X-ray Center NASA Contract NAS8-39073 and by Chandra guest observer grant G02-3015X.
Alves J. J.
Bourke Tyler
Smith Randall K.
Spitzbart Brad
Wolk Scott
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