Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2000-12-05
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
6 pages, 4 figures, uses physprbb.sty. To appear in proceedings of Starburst Galaxies: Near & Far, Ringberg Castle, Germany, 1
Scientific paper
We present H- and K-band NIRSPEC spectroscopy of super star clusters (SSCs) in the irregular starburst galaxy NGC 1569, obtained at the Keck Observatory. We fit these photospheric spectra to NextGen model atmospheres to obtain effective spectral types of clusters, and find that the information in both H- and K-band spectra is necessary to remove degeneracy in the fits. The light of SSC B is unambiguously dominated by K0 supergiants (T_eff=4400 +- 100 K, log g=0.5 +- 0.5). The double cluster SSC A has higher T_eff (G5) and less tightly constrained surface gravity (log g=1.3 +- 1.3), consistent with a mixed stellar population dominated by blue Wolf-Rayet stars and red supergiants. We predict the time evolution of infrared spectra of SSCs using Starburst99 population synthesis models coupled with empirical stellar spectral libraries (at solar metallicity). The resulting model sequence allows us to assign ages of 15-18 Myr for SSC B and 18-21 Myr for SSC A.
Gilbert Andrea M.
Graham James R.
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