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A MUSE Map of the Central Orion Nebula A MUSE map of the central Orion Nebula (M 42) Peter M., Weilbacher, Ana, Monreal-Ibero, Wolfram, Kollatschny, Adam, Ginsburg, Anna F., Mcleod, Sebastian, Kamann, Christer, Sandin, Ralf, Palsa, Lutz, Wisotzki, Roland, Bacon, et al. To cite this version: Peter M., Weilbacher, Ana, Monreal-Ibero, Wolfram, Kollatschny, Adam, Ginsburg, Anna F., Mcleod, et al.. A MUSE map of the central Orion Nebula (M 42). Chinese Astronomy and Astrophysics, Elsevier, 2015, 582, pp.A114. 10.1051/0004-6361/201526529. hal-01238614 HAL Id: hal-01238614 https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01238614 Submitted on 14 Dec 2015 HAL is a multi-disciplinary open access L’archive ouverte pluridisciplinaire HAL, est archive for the deposit and dissemination of sci- destinée au dépôt et à la diffusion de documents entific research documents, whether they are pub- scientifiques de niveau recherche, publiés ou non, lished or not. The documents may come from émanant des établissements d’enseignement et de teaching and research institutions in France or recherche français ou étrangers, des laboratoires abroad, or from public or private research centers. publics ou privés. Astronomy & Astrophysics manuscript no. orion December 14, 2015 A MUSE map of the central Orion Nebula (M 42) ?,?? Peter M. Weilbacher1, Ana Monreal-Ibero2, Wolfram Kollatschny3, Adam Ginsburg4, Anna F. McLeod4, Sebastian Kamann3, Christer Sandin1, Ralf Palsa4, Lutz Wisotzki1, Roland Bacon7, Fernando Selman8, Jarle Brinchmann5, Joseph Caruana1, Andreas Kelz1, Thomas Martinsson5; 9; 10, Arlette Pécontal-Rousset7, Johan Richard7, and Martin Wendt1; 6 1 Leibniz-Institut für Astrophysik Potsdam (AIP), An der Sternwarte 16, D-14482 Potsdam, Germany e-mail: [email protected] 2 GEPI, Observatoire de Paris, CNRS, Université Paris-Diderot, Place Jules Janssen, 92190 Meudon, France 3 Institut für Astrophysik, Universität Göttingen, Friedrich-Hund-Platz 1, 37077 Göttingen, Germany 4 ESO, European Southern Observatory, Karl-Schwarzschild Str. 2, 85748 Garching bei München, Germany 5 Leiden Observatory, Leiden University, P.O. Box 9513, 2300 RA Leiden, The Netherlands 6 Institut für Physik und Astronomie, Universität Potsdam, D-14476 Golm, Germany 7 CRAL, Observatoire de Lyon, CNRS, Université Lyon 1, 9 Avenue Charles André, F-69561 Saint Genis Laval Cedex, France 8 ESO, European Southern Observatory, 3107 Alonso de Córdova, Santiago, Chile 9 Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), E-38205 La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain 10 Departamento de Astrofísica, Universidad de La Laguna, E-38206 La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain Received May 13, 2015; accepted XXX YY, 2015 ABSTRACT We present a new integral-field spectroscopic dataset of the central part of the Orion Nebula (M 42), observed with the MUSE instrument at the ESO VLT. We reduced the data with the public MUSE pipeline. The output products are two FITS cubes with a spatial size of ∼ 5:09 × 4:09 (corresponding to ∼ 0:76 × 0:63 pc2) and a contiguous wavelength coverage of 4595 ::: 9366 Å, spatially sampled at 000:2. We provide two versions with a sampling of 1.25 Å and 0.85 Å in dispersion direction. Together with variance cubes these files have a size of 75 and 110 GiB on disk. They represent one of the largest integral field mosaics to date in terms of information content. We make them available for use in the community. To validate this dataset, we compare world coordinates, reconstructed magnitudes, velocities, and absolute and relative emission line fluxes to the literature and find excellent agreement. We derive a two- dimensional map of extinction and present de-reddened flux maps of several individual emission lines and of diagnostic line ratios. We estimate physical properties of the Orion Nebula, using the emission line ratios [N ii] and [S iii] (for the electron temperature Te) and [S ii] and [Cl iii] (for the electron density Ne), and show two-dimensional images of the velocity measured from several bright emission lines. Key words. HII regions – ISM: individual objects: M 42 – open clusters and associations: individual: Trapezium cluster 1. Introduction see if something new can be discovered, and second, to use the plethora of existing observations for comparison, to validate a ii An H region is a diffuse nebula whose gas is heated and ion- new system. A review about the nebula and its stellar content ized by the ultraviolet radiation of early-type massive stars (see can be found in O’Dell(2001). Spectroscopic studies of the ion- ii Shields 1990; Osterbrock & Ferland 2005). H regions are typi- ized gas, confined to one or several slit positions, have partially cally found in the arms of spiral galaxies and/or irregular galax- characterised the Orion’s emission spectrum (e. g. Baldwin et al. ies and present spectra with strong emission lines visible even at 1991; Pogge et al. 1992; Osterbrock et al. 1992; Mesa-Delgado ii cosmological distances. Galactic H regions in particular, can be et al. 2008; O’Dell & Harris 2010). seen as small-scale versions of the extreme events of star forma- tion occurring in starburst galaxies (e. g. Weilbacher et al. 2003; However, H ii regions are rarely as simple as the textbook- Alonso-Herrero et al. 2009; García-Marín et al. 2009; Cairós like Strömgren(1939) spheres and Orion is no exception. In- et al. 2015). As such, they are laboratories offering an invalu- deed, M 42 is thought to be only a thin blister of ionized gas at able opportunity to study the interplay between recent and/or on- the near side of a giant molecular cloud (Zuckerman 1973; Israel going star formation – in particular massive stars – and their sur- 1978; van der Werf et al. 2013). To make most of the opportunity rounding interstellar medium, including gas and dust, at a high to observe an H ii region at the level of detail offered by Orion, level of detail. spatially resolved maps with high-quality spectral information in One of the best-studied Galactic H ii regions (and the closest) terms of depth, spatial and spectral resolution are desirable. is the Orion Nebula (M 42), visible to the naked eye. It is often Probably, the most efficient way to gather this information one of the first objects targeted with a new instrument; first, to nowadays is the use of Integral Field Spectroscopy. Sánchez ? Data products are available at http://muse-vlt.eu/science. et al.(2007) released a first dataset based on this technique to ?? Based on observations made with ESO telescopes at the La Silla the community (using the PPak-IFU of PMAS, Kelz et al. 2006), Paranal Observatory under program ID 60.A-9100(A). mapping most of the Huygens region – the central part of the Article number, page 1 of 16 A&A proofs: manuscript no. orion nebula with the highest surface brightness. However, the data were taken under non-ideal weather conditions and hence, were poorly flux-calibrated. They were shallow due to very short ex- posure time and of low spatial and spectral resolution. Some of these aspects (depth and spectral resolution) were improved in a new mosaic mapping a similar area (Núñez-Díaz et al. 2013). However, the spatial resolution of these data were still relatively low. Also, at the moment, this improved dataset is not publicly available in reduced form. Additionally, there are several stud- ies with very good data quality in terms of depth, spectral and spatial resolution, that were devoted to the study of invidiual tar- gets within the Orion Nebula, and observed the interplay of gas and stars in proplyds and Herbig-Haro objects (e. g. Vasconcelos et al. 2005; Mesa-Delgado et al. 2011; Tsamis & Walsh 2011; Mesa-Delgado et al. 2012; Tsamis et al. 2013; Núñez-Díaz et al. 2012). Therefore, they only mapped very small (∼1000) rectan- gular areas. None of these currently existing datasets satisfy all of the following requirements: i) large mapped area, ii) depth, iii) ample spectral coverage, and iv) good spatial and spectral resolution. Here, we present what we call true imaging spectroscopy Fig. 1. Inverse greyscale representation of the white-light image of the of the Huygens region of the Orion Nebula, observed with final mosaic. The positions of the observations are marked and anno- the MUSE integral-field spectrograph mounted to VLT UT4 tated with the exposure numbers in the sequence from 1 to 60. Each “Yepun”. MUSE comes close to producing the “perfect dataset” box represents the approximate field of view of a single MUSE expo- sure, about 10 × 10. The full field covered is ∼ 5:09 × 4:09, centered on mentioned by O’Dell(2001): it samples the Huygens region with h m s − ◦ 0 00 00 α = 5 35 17:0, δ = 5 23 43 , with north to the top and east to the high spatial sampling (0:2) and reasonable spectral resolution left. (R ∼ 3000), and covers a large dynamic range. Our aim in this work is twofold. On the one hand, from the technical point of view, this is one of the first sets of MUSE the data. No sky exposures were taken. Daytime calibrations of data and as such, it was taken with the main goal of testing off- the morning after the observing night were used. sets larger than the field of view and stress-test the data flow The observing conditions were good, with photometric sky system related to the new instrument. On the other hand, from and DIMM seeing varying between 000:67 and 100:25. The M 42 a scientific point of view, given the lack of a high-quality and mosaic was observed after transit, with airmass values ranging science-ready set of spectrophotometric data of the whole Huy- from 1.067 to 1.483. During the observations, the moon had an gens region, we wanted to provide to the community with such illumination of 95%, a distance of ∼ 87◦ from the target, and data.
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