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A Near-Infrared Study of the Highly-Obscured Active Star-Forming Region W51B

a r X i v : 0 7 0 4 .2 1 0 8 v 1 [ a s t r o - p h ] 1 7 A p r 2 0 0 7 Journal of The Korean Astronomical Society 40: 17 ～ 28, 2007 A NEAR-INFRARED STUDY OF THE HIGHLY-OBSCURED ACTIVE STAR-FORMING REGION W51B Hyosun Kim1, Yasushi Nakajima2, Hwankyung Sung3, Dae-Sik Moon4,5, and Bon-Chul Koo1 1 Astronomy Program, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Seoul National University, Seoul 151-742, Korea E-mail: hkim@astro.snu.ac.kr koo@astrohi.snu.ac.kr 2 National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, 2-21-1 Osawa, Mitaka, Tokyo 181-8858, Japan 3 Department of Astronomy and Space Science, Sejong University, Gunja-dong 98, Gwangjin-gu, Seoul 143-747, Korea E-mail: sungh@sejong.ac.kr 4 Robert A. Millikan Fellow, Division of Physics, Mathematics, and Astronomy, California Institute of Technology, MC 103-33, Pasadena, CA 91125 E-mail: moon@ 5 Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M5S 3H4, Canada E-mail: moon@astro.utoronto.ca (Received January 26, 2007; Accepted March 20, 2007) ABSTRACT We present wide-field JHKs-band photometric observations of the three compact H II regions G48.9– 0.3, G49.0–0.3, and G49.2–0.3 in the active star-forming region W51B. The star clusters inside the three compact H II regions show the excess number of stars in the J?Ks histograms compared with reference fields. While the mean color excess ratio (EJ?H/EH?Ks) of the three compact H II regions are similar to ～ 2.07, the visual extinctions toward them are somewhat different: ～ 17 mag for G48.9–0.3 and G49.0–0.3; ～ 23 mag for G49.2–0.3. Based on their sizes and brightnesses, we suggest that the age of each compact H II region is ≤ 2 Myr. The inferred total stellar mass, ～ 1.4× 104M⊙, of W51B makes it one of the most active star forming regions in the Galaxy with the star formation efficiency of ～ 10 %. Key words : infrared: stars — ISM: H II regions — ISM: individual (W51B) — stars: formation — stars: luminosity function, mass function I. INTRODUCTION W51B i