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Recent JWST Science Abstracts - Galactic

Finding η Car Analogs in Nearby Galaxies Using Spitzer: II. Identification of An Emerging Class of Extragalactic Self-Obscured Stars

Paper abstract:-Understanding the late-stage evolution of the most massive stars such as η Carinae is challenging because no true analogs of η Car have been clearly identified in the Milky Way or other galaxies. In Khan et. al. (2013), we utilized Spitzer IRAC images of 7 nearby (≲4 Mpc) galaxies to search for such analogs, and found 34 candidates with flat or red mid-IR spectral energy distributions. Here, in Paper II, we present our characterization of these candidates using multi-wavelength data from the optical through the far-IR. Our search detected no true analogs of η Car, which implies an eruption rate that is a fraction 0.01≲F≲0.19 of the ccSN rate. This is roughly consistent with each MZAMS≳70M star undergoing 1 or 2 outbursts in its lifetime. However, we do identify a significant population of 18 lower luminosity (log(L/L)≃5.5−6.0) dusty stars. Stars enter this phase at a rate that is fraction 0.09≲F≲0.55 of the ccSN rate, and this is consistent with all 25<MZAMS<60M stars undergoing an obscured phase at most lasting a few thousand years once or twice. These phases constitute a negligible fraction of post-main sequence lifetimes of massive stars, which implies that these events are likely to be associated with special periods in the evolution of the stars. The mass of the obscuring material is of order ∼M, and we simply do not find enough heavily obscured stars for theses phases to represent more than a modest fraction (∼10% not ∼50%) of the total mass lost by these stars. In the long term, the sources that we identified will be prime candidates for detailed physical analysis with JWST.

Reference: Rubab Khan, NASA Goddard / The Ohio State University, Co-authors:- C. S. Kochanek, K. Z. Stanek, Jill Gerke, http://arxiv.org/abs/1407.7530 Submitted to ApJ