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An anomalous extinction law in the Cep OB3b young cluster: Evidence for dust processing during gas dispersal
© 2014. The American Astronomical Society. All rights reserved. We determine the extinction law through Cep OB3b, a young cluster of 3000 stars undergoing gas dispersal. The extinction is measured toward 76 background K giants identified with MMT/Hectospec spectra. Color excess ratios were determined toward each of the giants using V and R photometry from the literature, g, r, i, and z photometry from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey and J, H, and Ks photometry from the Two Micron All Sky Survey. These color excess ratios were then used to construct the extinction law through the dusty material associated with Cep OB3b. The extinction law through Cep OB3b is intermediate between the RV = 3.1 and RV = 5 laws commonly used for the diffuse atomic interstellar medium and dense molecular clouds, respectively. The dependence of the extinction law on line-of-sight AV is investigated and we find the extinction law becomes shallower for regions with AV > 2.5 mag. We speculate that the intermediate dust law results from dust processing during the dispersal of the molecular cloud by the cluster.Support for this work was provided by the National Science
Foundation award AST-1009564. This research has made
use of the NASA/IPAC Infrared Science Archive, which is
operated by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute
of Technology, under contract with the National Aeronautics
and Space Administration. This publication makes
use of data products from the Two Micron All Sky Survey,
which is a joint project of the University of Massachusetts
and the Infrared Processing and Analysis Center/California
Institute of Technology, funded by the National Aeronautics
and Space Administration and the National Science Foundation
and JPL support from SAO/JPL SV4-74011. Funding for
SDSS-III has been provided by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation,
the Participating Institutions, the National Science Foundation,
and the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science.
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