Two 2MASS-Selected Young Stellar Clusters: Photometry, Spectroscopy, and the IMF

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2005-06-22

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0506536v1

Astron.J.130:1719-1732,2005

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

16 pages, 18 figures, accepted to AJ

Scientific paper

10.1086/444455

We present near-infrared J, H, and K_s images and K-band spectroscopy of two newly discovered stellar clusters at different stages of evolution. Our spectra suggest the presence of massive YSOs in the heavily embedded cluster in the star-forming region near radio source G353.4-0.4 and an O5-O6V star in the cluster near radio source G305+00.2. We determine a K-band luminosity function (KLF) for both clusters and an initial mass function (IMF) for the cluster near G305+00.2. The derived IMF slope is -1.5 if the KLF is used to derive the IMF and is -0.98 if the color-magnitude diagram and spectra are used. The more reliable CMD-based slope is flatter than the Salpeter value usually found for stellar clusters. We find that using the KLF alone to derive an IMF is likely to produce an overly steep slope in stellar clusters subject to variable extinction.

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