وسترلوند 1 Westerlund 1 ‏(تسمى أيضاً عنقود آرا Ara Cluster‏،[4] designated Wd1) is a compact young super star cluster في مجرة درب التبانة، على بعد نحو 3.5–5 kpc من الأرض. It is one of the most massive young star clusters in the Milky Way,[3] and was discovered by Bengt Westerlund in 1961[5] but remained largely unstudied for many years due to high interstellar absorption in its direction. In the future, it will probably evolve into a globular cluster.[6]

Westerlund 1
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الفضل: ESO/VPHAS+ Survey/N. Wright
بيانات الرصد (J2000 الحقبة)
الكوكبةآرا
الصعود المستقيم16h 47m 04.0s[1]
الميل−45° 51′ 04.9″[1]
المسافة12.1±2.0[2] (3.7±0.6 kpc)
السمات الطبيعية
الكتلة63,000[3] M
نصف القطر3.26[3]
العمر المقدر3.50 Myr[3]
تسميات أخرىعنقود آرا، وسترلوندESO 277-12, C 1644-457, VDBH 197
انظر أيضاً: عنقود مفتوح، قائمة العناقيد المفتوحة
HST

The cluster contains a large number of rare, evolved, high-mass stars, including: 6 yellow hypergiants, 4 red supergiants including Westerlund 1-26, one of the largest known stars, 24 Wolf-Rayet stars, a luminous blue variable, many OB supergiants, and an unusual supergiant sgB[e] star which has been proposed to be the remnant of a recent stellar merger.[7] In addition, X-ray observations have revealed the presence of the anomalous X-ray pulsar CXO J164710.2-455216, a slow rotating neutron star that must have formed from a high-mass progenitor star.[8] Westerlund 1 is believed to have formed in a single burst of star formation, implying the constituent stars have similar ages and compositions.

Aside from hosting some of the most massive and least-understood stars in our galaxy, Westerlund 1 is useful as a relatively nearby, easy to observe super star cluster that can help astronomers determine what occurs within extragalactic super star clusters.

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الرصد

 
Images of Westerlund 1 taken in visible (left) and X-ray (right) wavelengths. The hot OB supergiants primarily emit blue light – however they appear as red stars in the visible light image on the left, as all the blue light from the stars has been absorbed due to the large interstellar reddening. In the X-ray image on the right the Westerlund 1 magnetar was marked.


الهامش

  1. ^ أ ب خطأ استشهاد: وسم <ref> غير صحيح؛ لا نص تم توفيره للمراجع المسماة brandner
  2. ^ Koumpia, E.; Bonanos, A. Z. (2012). "Fundamental parameters of four massive eclipsing binaries in Westerlund 1". Astronomy & Astrophysics. 547: A30. arXiv:1108.4453. Bibcode:2012A&A...547A..30K. doi:10.1051/0004-6361/201219465.
  3. ^ أ ب ت ث Portegies Zwart, Simon F.; McMillan, Stephen L.W.; Gieles, Mark (2010). "Young Massive Star Clusters". Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics. 48: 431. arXiv:1002.1961. Bibcode:2010ARA&A..48..431P. doi:10.1146/annurev-astro-081309-130834.
  4. ^ Westerlund, B. E. (1968). "On the Extended Infrared Source in ARA". Astrophysical Journal. 154: L67. Bibcode:1968ApJ...154L..67W. doi:10.1086/180270.
  5. ^ Westerlund, B. (1961). "A Heavily Reddened Cluster in Ara". Astronomical Journal. 70: 57. Bibcode:1961AJ.....66T..57W. doi:10.1086/108585.
  6. ^ Gallagher; Grebel (2002). "Extragalactic Star Clusters: Speculations on the Future". Extragalactic Star Clusters, IAU Symposium. 207: 207. arXiv:astro-ph/0109052. Bibcode:2002IAUS..207..745G. {{cite journal}}: Unknown parameter |last-author-amp= ignored (|name-list-style= suggested) (help)
  7. ^ Clark, J. S.; Negueruela, I.; Crowther, P. A.; Goodwin, S. P.; et al. (2005). "On the massive stellar population of the super star cluster Westerlund 1". Astronomy & Astrophysics. 434 (3): 949–969. arXiv:astro-ph/0504342. Bibcode:2005A&A...434..949C. doi:10.1051/0004-6361:20042413.
  8. ^ Muno, Michael P.; Clark, J. Simon; Crowther, Paul A.; Dougherty, Sean M.; De Grijs, Richard; Law, Casey; McMillan, Stephen L. W.; Morris, Mark R.; Negueruela, Ignacio; Pooley, David; Portegies Zwart, Simon; Yusef-Zadeh, Farhad; et al. (2006). "A Neutron Star with a Massive Progenitor in Westerlund 1". Astrophysical Journal Letters. 636 (1): L41. arXiv:astro-ph/0509408. Bibcode:2006ApJ...636L..41M. doi:10.1086/499776.

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