J/ApJ/799/100        Herschel FIR observations of NGC3603      (Di Cecco+, 2015)

Herschel far-IR observations of the giant H II region NGC 3603. Di Cecco A., Faustini F., Paresce F., Correnti M., Calzoletti L. <Astrophys. J., 799, 100 (2015)> =2015ApJ...799..100D 2015ApJ...799..100D
ADC_Keywords: Clusters, open ; Photometry, infrared ; H II regions ; YSOs Keywords: open clusters and associations: individual: NGC 3603; stars: pre-main sequence Abstract: We observed the giant H II region around the NGC 3603 young stellar cluster (YC) with the five broad bands (70, 160, 250, 350, 500µm) of the SPIRE and PACS instruments, on board the Herschel Space Observatory. Together with what is currently known of the stellar, atomic, molecular, and warm dust components, this additional and crucial information should allow us to better understand the details of the star-formation history in this region. The main objective of the investigation is to study, at high spatial resolution, the distribution and main physical characteristics of the cold dust. By reconstructing the temperature and density maps, we found, respectively, a mean value of 36K and log10NH=22.0±0.1/cm2. We carried out a photometric analysis detecting 107 point-like sources, mostly confined to the north and south of the cluster. By comparing our data with spectral energy distribution models, we found that 35 sources are well represented by young stellar objects in early evolutionary phases, from Class 0 to Class I. The Herschel detections also provided far-IR counterparts for 4 H2O masers and 11 objects previously known from mid-IR observations. The existence of so many embedded sources confirms the hypothesis of intense and ongoing star-formation activity in the region around NGC 3603 YC. Description: The cloud complex surrounding NGC 3603 YC was observed by Herschel SPIRE/PACS during the Hi-GAL Survey (Molinari et al. 2010A&A...518L.100M 2010A&A...518L.100M, 2010PASP..122..314M 2010PASP..122..314M), a Key Programme that mapped the Galactic plane in five photometric bands (70, 160, 250, 350, and 500um). The MSX (Egan et al. 2003AAS...203.5708E 2003AAS...203.5708E) images were taken at (wavelengths) 8.3, 12.1, 14.7, and 21.3um using the scan observing mode, and the WISE (Wright et al. 2010AJ....140.1868W 2010AJ....140.1868W) images were acquired in freeze-frame scan mode at 3.4, 4.6, 12, and 22um. File Summary: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FileName Lrecl Records Explanations -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ReadMe 80 . This file table2.dat 115 107 *Sources detected by Herschel in the Nurnberger et al. N02 region (2002A&A...394..253N 2002A&A...394..253N), and their MSX counterparts table3.dat 81 35 SED analysis physical parameters -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Note on table2.dat: The WISE measurements are only for the detections in common between Herschel and MSX. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- See also: VI/139 : Herschel Observation Log (Herschel Science Centre, 2013) II/311 : WISE All-Sky Data Release (Cutri+ 2012) V/114 : MSX6C Infrared Point Source Catalog (Egan+ 2003) J/ApJ/719/1104 : Massive star forming complexes in GLIMPSE (Rahman+, 2010) J/A+A/481/345 : SED evolution in massive YSOs (Molinari+, 2008) J/ApJ/675/1319 : Infrared photometry of NGC 3603 (Harayama+, 2008) J/MNRAS/368/253 : Emission lines in M16, M20, NGC 3603 (Garcia-Rojas+, 2006) J/AJ/127/1014 : CCD UBVRIHa photometry in NGC 3603 (Sung+, 2004) J/MNRAS/327/23 : CCD UBVRI photometry of 7 open star clusters (Sagar+, 2001) J/A+A/291/943 : Protostellar cores (Ossenkopf+, 1994) http://www.asdc.asi.it/mmia/index.php?mission=herschel : ASDC Herschel archive Byte-by-byte Description of file: table2.dat -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bytes Format Units Label Explanations -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1- 3 I3 --- Seq [1/107] Running sequence number 5- 8 A4 --- n_Seq Note on fit (1) 10- 11 I2 h RAh Hour of right ascension (J2000) 13- 14 I2 min RAm Minute of right ascension (J2000) 16- 20 F5.2 s RAs Second of right ascension (J2000) 22 A1 --- DE- Sign of declination (J2000) 23- 24 I2 deg DEd Degree of declination (J2000) 26- 27 I2 arcmin DEm Arcminute of declination (J2000) 29- 33 F5.2 arcsec DEs Arcsecond of declination (J2000) 35- 38 F4.2 Jy S3.4 [0.01/0.2]? WISE 3.4um flux density 40- 43 F4.2 Jy S4.6 [0.02/1.1]? WISE 4.6um flux density 45- 48 F4.2 Jy S8.3 [0.03/4.5]? MSX 8.3um flux density 50 A1 --- l_S8.3 [U] Upper limit flux (calculated via Eq.(4)) 52- 55 F4.2 Jy S12.1 [0.01/4.3]? MSX 12.1um flux density 57 A1 --- l_S12.1 [U] Upper limit flux (calculated via Eq.(4)) 59- 62 F4.2 Jy S14.7 [0.01/7.4]? MSX 14.7um flux density 64 A1 --- l_S14.7 [U] Upper limit flux (calculated via Eq.(4)) 66- 70 F5.2 Jy S21.3 [0.02/27.3]? MSX 21.3um flux density 72 A1 --- l_S21.3 [U] Upper limit flux (calculated via Eq.(4)) 74- 80 F7.3 Jy S70 [14.3/667.1]? Herschel/PACS 70um flux density 82 A1 --- l_S70 [U] Upper limit flux (calculated via Eq.(4)) 84- 90 F7.2 Jy S160 [4.8/1382.1]? Herschel/PACS 160um flux density 92 A1 --- l_S160 [U] Upper limit flux (calculated via Eq.(4)) 94- 99 F6.2 Jy S250 [4.4/659.7]? Herschel/SPIRE 250um flux density 101 A1 --- l_S250 [U] Upper limit flux (calculated via Eq.(4)) 103-108 F6.2 Jy S350 [2.4/425.7]? Herschel/SPIRE 350um flux density 110-115 F6.2 Jy S500 [4.3/197.9]? Herschel/SPIRE 500um flux density -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Note (1): Flag as follows: d = source fitted with a SED model B = Counterpart of B10 (Breen et al. 2010MNRAS.406.1487B 2010MNRAS.406.1487B) source (see the B10 properties in table 4) NS = Counterpart of NS03 (Nuernberger et al. 2003A&A...400..223N 2003A&A...400..223N) source. (see the NS03 properties in table 4) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Byte-by-byte Description of file: table3.dat -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bytes Format Units Label Explanations -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1- 3 I3 --- Seq [1/106] Running sequence number as in table2 5- 9 F5.2 kLsun Lbol0 [1/48] Observed bolometric luminosity (2) 11- 15 F5.2 kLsun e_Lbol0 [0.4/17] Lbol0 uncertainty 17- 21 F5.2 kLsun LbolT [0.8/41] Theoretical bolometric luminosity (2) 23- 26 F4.2 kLsun e_LbolT [0.02/6.4] LbolT uncertainty 28- 31 F4.2 kMsun Menv [0.01/2.8] Envelope mass (in 103M) 33- 36 F4.2 kMsun e_Menv [0/0.5] Menv uncertainty 38- 41 F4.2 Msun/kyr dM/dt [0.2/6.2] Accretion rate (in 10-3M/yr) 43- 46 F4.2 Msun/kyr e_dM/dt [0.01/0.86] dM/dt uncertainty 48- 51 F4.1 Msun M* [7.8/27.2] Central stellar mass 53- 55 F3.1 Msun e_M* [0.1/1.7] M* uncertainty 57- 61 F5.2 kK T* [3.6/34.8] Stellar temperature 63- 66 F4.2 kK e_T* [0.03/1.4] T* uncertainty 68- 73 F6.2 kyr Age [0.9/131.8] Age 75- 79 F5.2 kyr e_Age [0.1/23.5] Age uncertainty 81 A1 --- Cl [0I] YSO class (0 or I) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Note (2): Luminosities in 103L. The observed bolometric luminosity Lbol0 is calculated for a distance of 7Kpc, while the theoretical bolometric luminosity LbolT and its uncertainty are calculated for a distance of 7±1Kpc. See section 2.2. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- History: From electronic version of the journal
(End) Emmanuelle Perret [CDS] 15-Jun-2015
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