IRAS 18153-1651: an H II region with a possible wind bubble blown by a young main-sequence B star
We report the results of spectroscopic observations and numerical modelling of the H II region IRAS 18153-1651. Our study was motivated by the discovery of an optical arc and two main-sequence stars of spectral type B1 and B3 near the centre of IRAS 18153-1651. We interpret the arc as the edge of th...
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| Format: | Article (Journal) Chapter/Article |
| Language: | English |
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2017
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Arxiv
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| Online Access: | Verlag, kostenfrei, Volltext: http://arxiv.org/abs/1612.03916
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| Author Notes: | V.V. Gvaramadze, J. Mackey, A.Y. Kniazev, N. Langer, A.-N. Chene, N. Castro, T.J. Haworth and E.K. Grebel |
| Summary: | We report the results of spectroscopic observations and numerical modelling of the H II region IRAS 18153-1651. Our study was motivated by the discovery of an optical arc and two main-sequence stars of spectral type B1 and B3 near the centre of IRAS 18153-1651. We interpret the arc as the edge of the wind bubble (blown by the B1 star), whose brightness is enhanced by the interaction with a photoevaporation flow from a nearby molecular cloud. This interpretation implies that we deal with a unique case of a young massive star (the most massive member of a recently formed low-mass star cluster) caught just tens of thousands of years after its stellar wind has begun to blow a bubble into the surrounding dense medium. Our two-dimensional, radiation-hydrodynamics simulations of the wind bubble and the H II region around the B1 star provide a reasonable match to observations, both in terms of morphology and absolute brightness of the optical and mid-infrared emission, and verify the young age of IRAS 18153-1651. Taken together our results strongly suggest that we have revealed the first example of a wind bubble blown by a main-sequence B star. |
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