2 um Narrow-band Adaptive Optics Imaging in the Arches Cluster

Details 2 um Narrow-band Adaptive Optics Imaging in the Arches Cluster 2 um Narrow-band Adaptive Optics Imaging in the Arches Cluster

2001-06-27

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0106496v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

latex, 33 pages including nine figures. Accepted for publication in the Astronomical Journal

Scientific paper

10.1086/323096

Canada-France-Hawaii-Telescope adaptive optics bonnette images through narrow-band filters in the $K-$band are presented for the Arches cluster. Continuum fluxes, line fluxes, and equivalent widths are derived from high angular resolution images, some near diffraction limited, for the well known massive stars in the Arches cluster. Images were obtained in the lines of \ion{He}{1} 2.06 \mic, \ion{H}{1} Br$\gamma$ (2.17 \mic), and \ion{He}{2} 2.19 \mic as well as continuum positions at 2.03 \mic, 2.14 \mic, and 2.26 \mic. In addition, fluxes are presented for \ion{H}{1} P$\alpha$ (1.87 \mic) and a nearby continuum position (1.90 \mic) from Hubble Space Telescope archival data. The 2 \mic and P$\alpha$ data reveal two new emission-line stars and three fainter candidate emission-line objects. Indications for a spectral change of one object between earlier observations in 1992/1993 and our data from 1999 are found. The ratio of \ion{He}{2} 2.19 \mic to Br$\gamma$ emission exhibits a narrow distribution among the stars, suggesting a narrow evolutionary spread centered predominantly on spectral types O4 If or Wolf-Rayet stars of the WN7 sub-type. From the approximate spectral types of the identified emission-line stars and comparisons with evolutionary models we infer a cluster age between $\sim$ 2 and 4.5 Myr.

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