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Massive open star clusters using the VVV survey V. Young clusters with an OB stellar population

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics 2016-03-16 v2 Astrophysics of Galaxies

Abstract

The ESO public survey VISTA Variables in the V\'ia L\'actea (VVV) has contributed with deep multi-epoch photometry of the Galactic bulge and the adjacent part of the disk over 526 square degrees. More than a hundred cluster candidates have been reported thanks to this survey. We present the fifth article in a series of papers focused on young and massive clusters discovered in the VVV survey. In this paper, we present the physical characterization of five clusters with a spectroscopically confirmed OB-type stellar population. To characterize the clusters, we used near-infrared photometry (JJ, H,H, and KSK_S) from the VVV survey and near-infrared KK-band spectroscopy from ISAAC at VLT, following the methodology presented in the previous articles of the series. All clusters in our sample are very young (ages between 1-20 Myr), and their total mass are between (1.070.30+0.40)102(1.07^{+0.40}_{-0.30})\cdot10^2 MM_{\odot} and (4.172.08+4.15)103(4.17^{+4.15}_{-2.08})\cdot10^3 MM_{\odot}. We observed a relation between the clusters total mass MeclM_{ecl} and the mass of their most massive stellar member mmaxm_{max}, even for clusters with an age << 10 Myr.

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@article{arxiv.1602.04898,
  title  = {Massive open star clusters using the VVV survey V. Young clusters with an OB stellar population},
  author = {S. Ramírez Alegría and J. Borissova and A. -N. Chené and C. Bonatto and R. Kurtev and P. Amigo and M. Kuhn and M. Gromadzki and J. A. Carballo-Bello},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1602.04898},
  year   = {2016}
}

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Accepted for publication, A&A