What Fraction of the Young Clusters in the Antennae Galaxies are "Missing"?

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2002-07-03

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0207100v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

51 pages, 13 postscript figures, LaTex. To appear in the Astronomical Journal, 124, 2002, September

Scientific paper

10.1086/341822

A reexamination of the correspondence between 6 cm radio continuum sources and young star clusters in the Antennae galaxies indicates that 85 % of the strong thermal sources have optical counterparts, once the optical image is shifted 1.2 arcsec to the southwest. A sample of 37 radio-optical matches are studied in detail showing correlations between radio properties and a variety of optical characteristics. There is a strong correlation between the radio flux and the intrinsic optical brightness. In particular, the brightest radio source is also the intrinsically brightest optical cluster (WS80). It is also the most extincted cluster in the sample, the strongest CO source and the strongest 15 micron source . Furthermore, the brightest ten radio sources are all amongst the youngest clusters with ages in the range 0 - 4 Myr and extinctions from A_V = 0.5 to 7.6 mag (with a median value of 2.6 mag). Only a few of the very red clusters originally discovered by Whitmore & Schweizer are radio sources, contrary to earlier suggestions. Finally, a new hybrid method of determining cluster ages has been developed using both UBVI colors and H_alpha equivalent widths to break the age-reddening degeneracy.

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