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Astron. Astrophys. Suppl. Ser.
Volume 144, Number 2, June I 2000
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Page(s) | 195 - 202 | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/aas:2000206 | |
Published online | 15 June 2000 |
Dust properties in NGC 6611 *
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Facultad de Ciencias Astronómicas y Geofísicas, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Paseo del Bosque s/n, 1900, La Plata, Argentina
2
Programa de Fotometría y Estructura Galáctica, PROFOEG, CONICET, Paseo del Bosque s/n, 1900, La Plata, Argentina
3
Member of the Carrera del Investigador Científico of CONICET
4
Visiting Astronomer, Complejo Astronómico El Leoncito, operated under agreement between the Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas de la República Argentina and the Universities of La Plata, Córdoba, and San Juan
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Instituto de Astronomía y Física del Espacio, C. C. 67 Suc. 28, 1428, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Send offprint request to: A.M. Orsatti, e-mail: aorsatti@fcaglp.fcaglp.unlp.edu.ar
Received:
28
July
1999
Accepted:
25
February
2000
An investigation on dust properties in the NW portion of NGC 6611 has been
conducted polarimetrically to test the existence of
abnormal extinction in that section of the open cluster in an independent way.
As previously suggested for the η Carinae nebula by Tapia et al. (1988b)
and subsequently confirmed by Marraco et al. (1993), the canonical
relation between and
(the
wavelength of maximun interstellar polarization) is not valid for
stars belonging to dusty H ii regions, as is the case for the observed portion
of M 16. This may arise mainly from the presence of silicate grains of
a slightly
larger size than the standard ISM and also from a considerable increase in mean graphite grain size,
according to previous results from Chini & Wargau (1990).
About 50% of the observed stars in NGC 6611 present indications of intrinsic
polarization in their measurements; a similar percentage was found in IC 2944
(Vega et al. 1994), another young open cluster in close relation with an H ii region.
Key words: ISM: dust, extinction / Galaxy: open clusters and associations: individual (NGC 6611) / ISM: HII regions / ISM: magnetic fields
© European Southern Observatory (ESO), 2000