HST/NICMOS observations of the GLIMPSE9 stellar cluster

Details HST/NICMOS observations of the GLIMPSE9 stellar cluster HST/NICMOS observations of the GLIMPSE9 stellar cluster

2009-12-10

arxiv.org/abs/0912.2061v2

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Galaxy Astrophysics

13 pages, 14 figures. accepted for publication in ApJ. A version with high-resolution figures can be found at the following lo

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We present HST/NICMOS photometry, and low-resolution K-band spectra of the GLIMPSE9 stellar cluster. The newly obtained color-magnitude diagram shows a cluster sequence with H-Ks =1 mag, indicating an interstellar extinction Aks=1.6\pm0.2 mag. The spectra of the three brightest stars show deep CO band-heads, which indicate red supergiants with spectral type M1-M2. Two 09-B2 supergiants are also identified, which yield a spectrophotometric distance of 4.2\pm0.4 kpc. Presuming that the population is coeval, we derive an age between 15 and 27 Myr, and a total cluster mass of 1600\pm400 Msun, integrated down to 1 Msun. In the vicinity of GLIMPSE9 are several HII regions and SNRs, all of which (including GLIMPSE 9) are probably associated with a giant molecular cloud (GMC) in the inner galaxy. GLIMPSE9 probably represents one episode of massive star formation in this GMC. We have identified several other candidate stellar clusters of the same complex.

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