Broad band infrared spectroscopy of massive young stellar objects
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We present intermediate resolution 0.9–2.5μm IR spectra of 12 highly reddened stars, including some well known and some unfamiliar sources. A new technique for extracting calibration curves from standard star data is employed, and is found to be very successful. The reddening to each object is fully discussed and is calculated from both the continua (which was split into shortand long-wavelength regions λλ < 1.5μm and λλ > 1.5μm ) and the Hi lines. We find that, typically, there is consistency between the values derived from the Hi lines and the short-wavelength continua, but not with the value from the long-wavelength continua. This discrepancy is due to an IR excess at λλ ∼ 1.5μm , which is consistent with emission from hot dust (we derive dust temperatures in the range 750–1500K). We note that some of our sources have highly discrepant Paschen decrements, and may have a significant amount of scattered light for λλ < 1.5μm . The spectra show a variety of metallic emission lines and some evidence for different distinct emission regions in the same source. The range of line-to-continuum contrast between the sources is high, and where previous observations have been taken, there is evidence of variability of emission line strength in some sources.
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تاریخ انتشار 1997