Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2003-09-05
Astron.Astrophys.411:83-90,2003
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
8 pages, 9 figures, accepted in A&A
Scientific paper
10.1051/0004-6361:20034009
Three new obscured Milky Way clusters were detected as surface density peaks in the 2MASS point source catalog during our on-going search for hidden globular clusters and massive Arches-like star clusters. One more cluster was discovered serendipitously during a visual inspection of the candidates. The first deep J, H, and Ks imaging of the cluster [IBP2002] CC01 is presented. We estimated a cluster age of ~1-3 Myr, distance modulus of (m-M)0=12.56+-0.08 mag (D=3.5 Kpc), and extinction of AV~7.7 mag. We also derived the initial mass function slope for the cluster: Gamma=-2.23+-0.16. The integration over the initial mass function yielded a total cluster mass M_{total}<=1800+-200Msol. CC01 appears to be a regular, not very massive star cluster, whose formation has probably been induced by the shock front from the nearby HII region Sh2-228.
Borissova Jordanka
Ivanov George R.
Ivanov Valentin Dimitrov
Kurtev Radostin
Pessev Peter
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