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The Lambda Orionis Cluster (also known as the Collinder 69) is an open star cluster located north-west of the star Betelgeuse in the constellation of Orion. It is about five million years old and roughly 1,300 ly (400 pc) away from the Sun.[1] Included within the cluster is a double star named Meissa. With the rest of Orion, it is visible from the middle of August in the morning sky, to late April before Orion becomes too close to the Sun to be seen well. It can be seen from both the northern hemisphere and the southern hemisphere.

Lambda Orionis Cluster
Observation data (J2000 epoch)
ConstellationOrion
Right ascension05h 35m 06s[1]
Declination+09° 56.0′[1]
Distance1,300 ly (400 pc)[1]
Apparent magnitude (V)2.8 [2]
Physical characteristics
Estimated age5.0[1] Myr
Other designationsLambda Ori Association, Collinder 69
See also: Open cluster, List of open clusters

Description


The cluster is following an orbit through the Milky Way that has a period of 227.4 million years with an ellipticity of 0.06, carrying it as far as 28 kly (8.6 kpc) from the Galactic Center, and as close as 25 kly (7.7 kpc). The inclination of the orbit carries it up to 260 light-years (80 parsecs) away from the galactic plane. On average it crosses the plane every 33.3 million years.[1]

The star cluster is young and contains a large number of low-mass stars, some T Tauri stars and brown dwarfs.[3][4] One notable member is LOri167, which is a wide binary consisting of a potential planetary-mass object and a brown dwarf.[5] Observations of the star cluster with the Spitzer Space Telescope have shown that 25% of the low-mass stars and 40% of the substellar objects are surrounded by a circumstellar disk.[4] Two of these being actively photoevaporated by Meissa.[6]


Molecular ring and cluster evolution


Molecular Ring in infrared as seen by WISE
Molecular Ring in infrared as seen by WISE

The cluster might have formed in the central region of an elongated cloud, which is supported by the distribution of pre-main-sequence star candidates, which are concentrated in the cluster and nearby regions in an elongated shape. Massive OB stars and low-mass stars formed in the central regions of these clouds. The low-mass stars closest to the massive stars likely lost their circumstellar disks due to photoevaporation. Many low-mass stars parsecs away were unaffected by this and represent the current population of low-mass stars with a circumstellar disk. The cluster is surrounded by a large molecular ring, called the Lambda Orionis ring. This was interpreted as a remnant of a supernova that exploded one million years ago. The supernova blast encountered the clouds and gas in the region and the blast dispersed the parent core, creating the molecular ring.[7]


See also


Other celestial bodies included in the constellation Orion:


References


  1. Wu, Zhen-Yu; et al. (November 2009), "The orbits of open clusters in the Galaxy", Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 399 (4): 2146–2164, arXiv:0909.3737, Bibcode:2009MNRAS.399.2146W, doi:10.1111/j.1365-2966.2009.15416.x, S2CID 6066790.
  2. "cl Collinder 69". sim-id. Retrieved 2020-06-07. {{cite web}}: Check |url= value (help)
  3. Navascués, D. Barrado y; Stauffer, J. R.; Bouvier, J.; Jayawardhana, R.; Cuillandre, Jean-Charles (August 2004). "The Substellar Population of the Young Cluster λ Orionis". The Astrophysical Journal. 610 (2): 1064–1078. arXiv:astro-ph/0404072. Bibcode:2004ApJ...610.1064B. doi:10.1086/421762. ISSN 0004-637X. S2CID 17152013.
  4. Navascués, David Barrado y; Stauffer, John R.; Morales-Calderón, María; Bayo, Amelia; Fazzio, Giovanni; Megeath, Tom; Allen, Lori; Hartmann, Lee W.; Calvet, Nuria (July 2007). "Spitzer: Accretion in Low-Mass Stars and Brown Dwarfs in the λ Orionis Cluster*". The Astrophysical Journal. 664 (1): 481–500. arXiv:0704.1963. Bibcode:2007ApJ...664..481B. doi:10.1086/518816. ISSN 0004-637X. S2CID 55846043.
  5. Navascués, D. Barrado y; Bayo, A.; Morales-Calderón, M.; Huélamo, N.; Stauffer, J. R.; Bouy, H. (2007-06-01). "The young, wide and very low mass visual binary Lambda Orionis 167". Astronomy & Astrophysics. 468 (1): L5–L8. arXiv:0704.2469. Bibcode:2007A&A...468L...5B. doi:10.1051/0004-6361:20077258. ISSN 0004-6361. S2CID 119579493.
  6. Thévenot, Melina; Doll, Katharina; Luca, Hugo A. Durantini (July 2019). "Photoevaporation of Two Proplyds in the Star Cluster Collinder 69 Discovered with Spitzer MIPS". Research Notes of the AAS. 3 (7): 95. Bibcode:2019RNAAS...3...95T. doi:10.3847/2515-5172/ab30c5. ISSN 2515-5172.
  7. Dolan, Christopher J.; Mathieu, Robert D. (January 2002). "A Photometric Study of the Young Stellar Population throughout the λ Orionis Star-forming Region". The Astronomical Journal. 123 (1): 387. arXiv:astro-ph/0110160. Bibcode:2002AJ....123..387D. doi:10.1086/324631. ISSN 1538-3881. S2CID 16622572.



На других языках

[de] Collinder 69

Collinder 69, nach der Bayer-Bezeichnung seines hellsten Mitglieds auch λ-Orionis-Haufen genannt, ist ein offener Sternhaufen im Sternbild Orion. Der Sternhaufen, der von Per Collinder in dem nach ihm benannten Katalog aufgenommen wurde, befindet sich im „Kopf“ des Sternbilds Orion. Der hellste Stern der etwa 40 Haufenmitglieder ist der Doppelstern Meissa (λ Orionis). Ein weiteres bereits freiäugig sichtbares Haufenmitglied ist φ¹ Orionis. φ² Orionis ist kein Mitglied des Haufens, sondern ein Vordergrundstern. Weitere physikalische Mitglieder sind bereits mit einem geeigneten Fernglas sichtbar. Cr 69 ist vom schwachen Emissionsnebel Sharpless 2-264 umgeben, der hauptsächlich von Heka zum Leuchten angeregt wird.
- [en] Lambda Orionis Cluster

[ru] Collinder 69

Collinder 69 (ассоциация Лямбды Ориона) — рассеянное звёздное скопление к северо-западу от звезды Бетельгейзе в созвездии Ориона. Находится на расстоянии около 400 парсеков от Солнца, имеет возраст примерно 5 миллионов лет[1]. В состав скопления входит двойная звезда Меисса. Как и всё созвездие Ориона, скопление наблюдается с середины августа на утреннем небе до конца апреля на вечернем небе, до того момента как Солнце приблизится на земном небе к созвездию Ориона. Скопление можно наблюдать как из северного, так и из южного полушария Земли.


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