TY - JOUR
T1 - The gray extinction of the ionizing cluster in NGC 3603 from ultraviolet to optical wavelengths
AU - Pang, Xiaoying
AU - Pasquali, Anna
AU - Grebel, Eva K.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2016/2/1
Y1 - 2016/2/1
N2 - We use photometry in the F220W, F250W, F330W, F435W filters from the High Resolution Channel of the Advanced Camera for Surveys and photometry in the F555W, F675W, and F814W filters from the Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 aboard the Hubble Space Telescope to derive individual stellar reddenings and extinctions for stars in the HD 97950 cluster in the giant H ii region NGC 3603. The mean line of sight reddening for about a hundred main-sequence member stars inside the cluster is mag. After correcting for foreground reddening, the total to selective extinction ratio is in the cluster. Within the standard deviation associated with in each filter, the cluster extinction curve at ultraviolet wavelengths tends to be grayer than the average Galactic extinction laws from Cardelli et al. and Fitzpatrick. It is closer to the extinction law derived by Calzetti et al. for starburst galaxies, where the 0.2175 μm bump is absent. This indicates an anomalous extinction in the HD 97950 cluster, which may due to the clumpy dust distribution within the cluster, and the size of dust grains being larger than the average Galactic ISM.
AB - We use photometry in the F220W, F250W, F330W, F435W filters from the High Resolution Channel of the Advanced Camera for Surveys and photometry in the F555W, F675W, and F814W filters from the Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 aboard the Hubble Space Telescope to derive individual stellar reddenings and extinctions for stars in the HD 97950 cluster in the giant H ii region NGC 3603. The mean line of sight reddening for about a hundred main-sequence member stars inside the cluster is mag. After correcting for foreground reddening, the total to selective extinction ratio is in the cluster. Within the standard deviation associated with in each filter, the cluster extinction curve at ultraviolet wavelengths tends to be grayer than the average Galactic extinction laws from Cardelli et al. and Fitzpatrick. It is closer to the extinction law derived by Calzetti et al. for starburst galaxies, where the 0.2175 μm bump is absent. This indicates an anomalous extinction in the HD 97950 cluster, which may due to the clumpy dust distribution within the cluster, and the size of dust grains being larger than the average Galactic ISM.
KW - H II regions
KW - dust, extinction
KW - open clusters and associations: individual (NGC 3603)
KW - stars: massive
KW - stars: winds, outflows
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U2 - 10.3847/0004-6256/151/2/23
DO - 10.3847/0004-6256/151/2/23
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84957970621
SN - 0004-6256
VL - 151
JO - Astronomical Journal
JF - Astronomical Journal
IS - 2
M1 - 23
ER -