Near-IR Polarimetry Around 30 Doradus: I. Separation of the Galactic Sources

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2011-10-20

arxiv.org/abs/1110.4463v1

2011JKAS...44..135K

Astronomy and Astrophysics

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Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics

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A 20 arcmin \times 20 arcmin region around 30 Doradus in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) is observed and analyzed in the near-infrared. We obtain polarimetry data in the J, H, and K_s bands using the SIRIUS polarimeter SIRPOL at the Infrared Survey Facility 1.4 m telescope. We measure the Stokes parameters of 2562 point-like sources to derive the degree of polarization and the polarization position angles. We discuss the statistics of the groups classified by color-magnitude diagram and proper motions of the sources, in order to separate the Galactic foreground sources from those present in the LMC. We notice that groups classified by the proper motion data show a tendency towards different polarimetric properties.

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