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I present the first results from a Hubble Space Telescope/NICMOS imaging study of the most metal-poor blue compact dwarf galaxy, I Zw 18. The near-infrared color-magnitude diagram (CMD) is dominated by two populations, one 10-20 Myr population of red supergiants and one 0.1-5 Gyr population of asymptotic giant branch stars. Stars older than 1 Gyr are required to explain the observed CMD at the adopted distance of 12.6 Mpc, showing that I Zw 18 is not a young galaxy. The results hold also if the distance to I Zw 18 is significantly larger. This rules out the possibility that I Zw 18 is a truly young galaxy formed recently in the local universe. 相似文献
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Woodward Charles E. Gehrz R. D. Mason C. G. Jones T. J. Williams D. M. 《Earth, Moon, and Planets》1998,81(3):217-222
Comets, such as C/1995 O1 (Hale-Bopp), are important to studies of the origins of the solar system because they are believed
to be frozen reservoirs of the most primitive pre-solar dust grains and ices. Here, we report 1.2–18.5 μm infrared (IR) spectrophotometric
and polarimetric observations of comet Hale-Bopp. Our measurements of the spectral energy distribution (SED) and IR polarization
near perhelion passage suggest that emission from the coma was dominated by scattering and thermal emission from sub-micron
sized dust grains. Hale-Bopp's surprising brightness may have been largely a result of the properties of its coma grains rather
than the size of its nucleus. The thermal emission continuum from the grains had a superheat of S = Tcolor/TBB ≥ 1.7, the peak of the 10 μm silicate emission feature was 1.7 mags above the carbon grain continuum, and the albedo (reflectivity)
of the grains was ≥ 0.4 at a scattering angles, θ ≥ 135°
This revised version was published online in July 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date. 相似文献
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Hanner M. S. Gehrz R. D. Harker D. E. Hayward T. L. Lynch D. K. Mason C. C. Russell R. W. Williams D. M. Wooden D. H. Woodward C. E. 《Earth, Moon, and Planets》1997,79(1-3):247-264
The dust coma of comet Hale-Bopp was observed in the thermal infrared over a wide range in solar heating (R = 4.9–0.9 AU)
and over the full wavelength range from 3 μm to 160 μm. Unusual early activity produced an extensive coma containing small
warm refractory grains; already at 4.9 AU, the 10 μm silicate emission feature was strong and the color temperature was 30%
above the equilibrium blackbody temperature. Near perihelion the high color temperature, strong silicate feature, and high
albedo indicated a smaller mean grain size than in other comets. The 8–13 μm spectra revealed a silicate emission feature
similar in shape to that seen in P/Halley and several new and long period comets. Detailed spectral structure in the feature
was consistent over time and with different instruments; the main peaks occur at 9.3, 10.0 and 11.2 μm. These peaks can be
identified with olivine and pyroxene minerals, linking the comet dust to the anhydrous chondritic aggregate interplanetary
dust particles. Spectra at 16–40 μm taken with the ISO SWS displayed pronounced emission peaks due to Mg-rich crystalline
olivine, consistent with the 11.2 μm peak.
This revised version was published online in July 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date. 相似文献
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