TLUSTY OSTAR2002+BSTAR2006 Grid, The merged files use the BSTAR2006 models for effective temperatures up to 30,000 K and the OSTAR2002 models for higher temperatures.
TMAW -- Tübingen Model Atmosphere Package WWW Interface
Short Name:
TMAW
Date:
27 Dec 2024 08:31:03
Publisher:
The GAVO DC team
Description:
The Tübingen NLTE Model-Atmosphere Package (`TMAP
<http://astro.uni-tuebingen.de/%7ETMAP/TMAP.html>`_) is a tool to calculate
stellar atmospheres in spherical or plane-parallel geometry in hydrostatic
and radiative equilibrium allowing departures from local thermodynamic
equilibrium (LTE) for the population of atomic levels./TMAP/ is based on
the so-called Accelerated Lambda Iteration (ALI) method and is able to
account for line blanketing by metals. All elements from hydrogen to nickel
may be included in the calculation with model atoms which are tailored for
the aims of the user.
Mapping of the near-infrared (NIR) scattered light is a recent method for the study of interstellar clouds, complementing other, more commonly used methods, like dust emission and extinction. Our goal is to study the usability of this method on larger scale, and compare the properties of a filamentary structure using infrared scattering and other methods. We also study the radiation field and differences in grain emissivity between diffuse and dense areas. We have used scattered NIR J, H, and K band surface brightness observations with WFCAM instrument to map a filament TMC-1N in Taurus Molecular Cloud, covering an area of 1{deg}x1{deg} corresponding to ~(2.44pc). We have converted the data into an optical depth map and compared the results with NIR extinction and Herschel observations of sub-mm dust emission. We have also modelled the filament with 3D radiative transfer calculations of scattered light.
We present an analysis of the optical spectroscopy of 58 stars in the Galactic plane at l=27deg, where a prominent excess in the flux distribution and star counts have been observed in several spectral regions, in particular in the Two-Micron Galactic Survey (TMGS) catalog. The sources were selected from the TMGS to have a K magnitude brighter than +5mag and to be within 2deg of the Galactic plane. More than 60% of the spectra correspond to stars of luminosity class I, and a significant proportion of the remainder are very late and fast-evolving giants. This very high concentration of young sources points to the existence of a major star formation region in the Galactic plane, located just inside the assumed origin of the Scutum spiral arm. Such regions can form because of the concentrations of shocked gas where a galactic bar meets a spiral arm, as is observed at the ends of the bars of face-on external galaxies. Thus, the presence of a massive star formation region is very strong supporting evidence for the presence of a bar in our Galaxy.
DOLORES (Device Optimized for the LOw RESolution) is a focal reducer instrument installed at the Nasmyth B focus of the TNG. The detector is a 2048 x 2048 E2V 4240 Thinned back-illuminated, deep-depleted, Astro-BB coated CCD with a pixel size of 13.5 µ. The scale is 0.252 arcsec/px which yields a field of view of about 8.6 x 8.6 arcmin. The instrument allows imaging through broad and narrow band filters as well as spectroscopic observations with resolving powers between RS=~500 and RS=~6000. A multi-slit mode, based on custom masks manufactured by a dedicate cutting machine, is also available. Please note that MOS programs are bound to strict constraints on the number of masks and on the time necessary to design and manufacture them. In particular, each program can request up to a maximum of 5 masks per night and 10 masks per observing run.
NICS (Near Infrared Camera Spectrometer) is the TNG infrared (0.9-2.5 µm) multimode instrument which is based on a HgCdTe Hawaii 1024x1024 array. Its observing capabilities include imaging (4.2' x 4.2' f.o.v.), high-throughput low resolution spectroscopy (RS=50-500), medium resolution spectoscopy (max-R=2500), imaging polarimetry, spectropolarimetry and, when coupled to the adaptive optics module, nearly diffraction limited imaging.