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| DOI | 10.1093/MNRASL/SLS041 | ||
| Año | 2013 | ||
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We report the discovery of a bow-shock-producing star in the vicinity of the young massive star cluster NGC 3603 using archival data of the Spitzer Space Telescope. Follow-up optical spectroscopy of this star with Gemini-South led to its classification as O6 V. The orientation of the bow shock and the distance to the star (based on its spectral type) suggest that the star was expelled from the cluster, while the young age of the cluster (similar to 2 Myr) implies that the ejection was caused by a dynamical few-body encounter in the cluster's core. The relative position on the sky of the O6 V star and a recently discovered O2 If*/WN6 star (located on the opposite side of NGC 3603) allows us to propose that both objects were ejected from the cluster via the same dynamical event - a three-body encounter between a single (O6 V) star and a massive binary (now the O2 If*/WN6 star). If our proposal is correct, then one can 'weigh' the O2 If*/WN6 star using the conservation of the linear momentum. Given a mass of the O6 V star of approximate to 30 M-circle dot, we found that at the moment of ejection the mass of the O2 If*/WN6 star was approximate to 175 M-circle dot. Moreover, the observed X-ray luminosity of the O2 If*/WN6 star (typical of a single star) suggests that the components of this originally binary system have merged (e. g., because of encounter hardening).
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| 1 | Gvaramadze, V. V. | - |
Moscow MV Lomonosov State Univ - Rusia
Instituto Isaac Newton - Rusia |
| 2 | Kniazev, A. Y. | Hombre |
Moscow MV Lomonosov State Univ - Rusia
S African Astron Observ - República de Sudáfrica Southern African Large Telescope Fdn - República de Sudáfrica |
| 3 | Chene, Andre-Nicolas | Hombre |
Universidad de Valparaíso - Chile
Universidad de Concepción - Chile |
| 4 | Schnurr, Olivier | Hombre |
Astrophys Inst Potsdam - Alemania
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| We are grateful to L. Kaper (the referee) for his comments on the manuscript. AYK acknowledges support from the National Research Foundation of South Africa. This work has made use of the NASA/IPAC Infrared Science Archive, which is operated by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, under contract with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the SIMBAD data base and the VizieR catalogue access tool, both operated at CDS, Strasbourg, France. |