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http://hdl.handle.net/1843/58583| Type: | Artigo de Periódico |
| Title: | Optical polarimetric and near-infrared photometric study of the RCW95 galactic H II region |
| Authors: | Jaime Ignacio Vargas González Alexandre Roman Lopes Fábio Pereira Santos Gabriel Armando Pellegatti Franco João Francisco Coelho dos Santos Junior Francisco Ferreira de Souza Maia David Sanmartim |
| Abstract: | We carried out an optical polarimetric study in the direction of the RCW 95 star-forming region in order to probe the sky-projected magnetic field structure by using the distribution of linear polarization segments which seem to be well aligned with the more extended cloud component. A mean polarization angle of θ = 49∘.8 ± 7∘.7 was derived. Through the spectral dependence analysis of polarization it was possible to obtain the total-to-selective extinction ratio (RV) by fitting the Serkowski function, resulting in a mean value of RV = 2.93 ± 0.47. The foreground polarization component was estimated and is in agreement with previous studies in this direction of the Galaxy. Further, near-infrared (NIR) images from Vista Variables in the Via Láctea (VVV) survey were collected to improve the study of the stellar population associated with the H ii region. The Automated Stellar Cluster Analysis algorithm was employed to derive structural parameters for two clusters in the region, and a set of PAdova and TRieste Stellar Evolution Code (parsec) isochrones was superimposed on the decontaminated colour–magnitude diagrams to estimate an age of about 3 Myr for both clusters. Finally, from the NIR photometry study combined with spectra obtained with the Ohio State Infrared Imager and Spectrometer mounted at the Southern Astrophysics Research Telescope we derived the spectral classification of the main ionizing sources in the clusters associated with IRAS 15408−5356 and IRAS 15412−5359, both objects classified as O4V stars. |
| Subject: | Astronomia Meio interestelar Estrelas |
| language: | eng |
| metadata.dc.publisher.country: | Brasil |
| Publisher: | Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais |
| Publisher Initials: | UFMG |
| metadata.dc.publisher.department: | ICX - DEPARTAMENTO DE FÍSICA |
| Rights: | Acesso Aberto |
| metadata.dc.identifier.doi: | https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stx2753 |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/1843/58583 |
| Issue Date: | 2017 |
| metadata.dc.url.externa: | https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article/474/1/55/4563630 |
| metadata.dc.relation.ispartof: | Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society |
| Appears in Collections: | Artigo de Periódico |
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