Massive YSOs in the GC. II. IRTF spectra Virtual Observatory Resource

Authors
  1. Jang D.
  2. An D.
  3. Sellgren K.
  4. Ramirez S.V.
  5. Boogert A.C.A.
  6. Schultheis M.
  7. Published by
    CDS
Abstract

To study the demographics of interstellar ices in the Central Molecular Zone (CMZ) of the Milky Way, we obtain near-infrared spectra of 109 red point sources using NASA IRTF/SpeX at Maunakea. We select the sample from near- and mid-infrared photometry, including 12 objects in the previous paper of this series, to ensure that these sources trace a large amount of absorption through clouds in each line of sight. We find that most of the sample (100 objects) show CO band-head absorption at 2.3{mu}m, tagging them as red (super-) giants. Despite the photospheric signature, however, a fraction of the sample with L-band spectra (9/82=0.11) exhibit large H_2_O ice column densities (N>2x10^18^cm^-2^), and six of them also reveal CH_3_OH ice absorption. As one of such objects is identified as a young stellar object (YSO) in our previous work, these ice-rich sight lines are likely associated with background stars in projection to an extended envelope of a YSO or a dense cloud core. The low frequency of such objects in the early stage of stellar evolution implies a low star-formation rate (<~0.02M_{sun}_/yr), reinforcing the previous claim on the suppressed star-formation activity in the CMZ. Our data also indicate that the strong "shoulder" CO_2_ ice absorption at 15.4{mu}m observed in YSO candidates in the previous paper arises from CH3OH-rich ice grains having a large CO2 concentration [N(CO_2_)/N(CH_3_OH)~1/3].

Keywords
  1. galactic-center
  2. young-stellar-objects
  3. infrared-astronomy
  4. spectroscopy
  5. stellar-spectral-types
  6. extinction
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2022ApJ...930...16J
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