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ISSN 1063-7729, Astronomy Reports, 2011, Vol. 55, No. 2, pp. 123–131. c Pleiades Publishing, Ltd., 2011. Original Russian Text c S.V. Vereshchagin, N.V. Chupina, 2011, published in Astronomicheskii Zhurnal, 2011, Vol. 88, No. 2, pp. 143–151. Proper Motions of Stars in the Region of the Great Nebula in Orion S. V. Vereshchagin and N. V. Chupina Institute of Astronomy, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia Received June 8, 2010; in nal form, July 1, 2010 AbstractSix Tautenburg astrograph plates have been used to derive proper motions for 12740 stars in the region of the Great Nebula in Orion. The Oricat catalog of proper motions and B and R photometry has been compiled, incorporating as well data from other published catalogs. The proper motions presented in dierent catalogs are compared. The Oricat catalog is useful for studies of features of the structure and kinematics of star clusters and groups. DOI: 10.1134/S1063772910121029 1. INTRODUCTION The Orion Nebula (M42) is a densely populated Galactic star-forming region. The mean distance between stars is only 0.05 pc [1]. This has attracted the attention of many researchers to this region. Of special interest is the young Trapezium cluster, in whose vicinity are located several more clusters and stellar sub-groups (NGC 1981, NGC 1977, OMC-2, NGC 1980), whose origin is not clear: they may be open star clusters or sub-clusters in the corona of the Trapezium [2]. Massive proper-motion and photometric measurements were obtained earlier by Parenago [3] (to B 0 18 m for more than 2000 stars). Several hundred stars are considered in a number of other studies. A survey of results is presented in [4]. We have conducted mass determinations of proper motions using photographic observations acquired on the Tautenburg astrograph. This has yielded the Oricat catalog for a region 3 × 3 in size centered on α = 83.45 , δ = 5.20 , which includes 12 740 stars to B lim = 18.5 m . We have compared the data in our catalog with the catalogs of [4, 5], the PPMX catalog, and the Hipparcos (HIP) catalog in both its original [6] and revised [7] versions. The nal form of Oricat is supplemented with the data of Parenago [3], and includes 13 577 stars. 2. OBSERVATIONAL MATERIAL We measured six photographic plates obtained on the 2-m Schmidt reector of the Tautenburg Obser- vatory. The largest dierence between the epochs was 36 years. Table 1 presents information about these plates: the plate number, date it was obtained, emul- sion, lter, center coordinates, and observer. Each plate covers a 3 × 3 region of sky, with a scale of 51.4 /mm (the plates are 210 × 210 mm in size). Part of the area on each of these plates includes emission from the Great Nebula in Orion, which is about 1 in size and is located between the eastern edge and center of the plates, leading to a loss in the number of stars. The photographic plate images were translated into electronic form using the Tautenburg Observa- tory plate scanner [8]. The accuracy of the scanning was 0.5 μm, and the scale was 1000 pixels/mm. The rectangular coordinates x, y and instrumental magnitudes were then determined using a specialized program [9]. 3. DETERMINATION OF THE RA AND DEC OF THE MEASURED STARS We adopted reference stars for determining the equatorial coordinates from the ACT catalog [10], where α, δ correspond to the Tycho catalog [6]. The observing epoch for this catalog was J1991.25 (equinox J2000). The rms uncertainties in the coordinates are presented for each star, and are, on average, ±29 milliarcsecond (mas) and ±23 mas in α and δ, respectively. We identied the measured stars with reference stars using the coordinates α, δ projected onto the plate (at the epoch of our catalog, J1975.11; i.e., the observation date for reference plate No. 4261, equinox J2000). We obtained the tangential coordi- nates x ref tang ,y ref tang for 300 stars from the ACT located in the region of sky encompassed by our catalog (here, the subscript ref denotes the reference catalog). We identied 174 stars with the Oricat catalog using the MIDAS software. Further, we derived the 10 plate constants by obtaining a least-squares solution for the 174 equations for the coordinate dierences x x ref tang and y y ref tang , then determined the tangential 123

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ISSN 1063-7729, Astronomy Reports, 2011, Vol. 55, No. 2, pp. 123–131. c© Pleiades Publishing, Ltd., 2011.Original Russian Text c© S.V. Vereshchagin, N.V. Chupina, 2011, published in Astronomicheskii Zhurnal, 2011, Vol. 88, No. 2, pp. 143–151.

Proper Motions of Stars in the Region of the Great Nebula in Orion

S. V. Vereshchagin and N. V. ChupinaInstitute of Astronomy, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia

Received June 8, 2010; in final form, July 1, 2010

Abstract—Six Tautenburg astrograph plates have been used to derive proper motions for 12 740 stars inthe region of the Great Nebula in Orion. The Oricat catalog of proper motions and B and R photometryhas been compiled, incorporating as well data from other published catalogs. The proper motions presentedin different catalogs are compared. The Oricat catalog is useful for studies of features of the structure andkinematics of star clusters and groups.

DOI: 10.1134/S1063772910121029

1. INTRODUCTION

The Orion Nebula (M42) is a densely populatedGalactic star-forming region. The mean distancebetween stars is only 0.05 pc [1]. This has attractedthe attention of many researchers to this region. Ofspecial interest is the young Trapezium cluster, inwhose vicinity are located several more clusters andstellar sub-groups (NGC 1981, NGC 1977, OMC-2,NGC 1980), whose origin is not clear: they maybe open star clusters or sub-clusters in the coronaof the Trapezium [2]. Massive proper-motion andphotometric measurements were obtained earlier byParenago [3] (to B0 ≈ 18m for more than 2000 stars).Several hundred stars are considered in a number ofother studies. A survey of results is presented in [4].

We have conducted mass determinations of propermotions using photographic observations acquiredon the Tautenburg astrograph. This has yielded theOricat catalog for a region 3◦ × 3◦ in size centeredon α = 83.45◦, δ = −5.20◦, which includes 12 740stars to Blim = 18.5m. We have compared the datain our catalog with the catalogs of [4, 5], the PPMXcatalog, and the Hipparcos (HIP) catalog in both itsoriginal [6] and revised [7] versions. The final form ofOricat is supplemented with the data of Parenago [3],and includes 13 577 stars.

2. OBSERVATIONAL MATERIAL

We measured six photographic plates obtained onthe 2-m Schmidt reflector of the Tautenburg Obser-vatory. The largest difference between the epochs was36 years. Table 1 presents information about theseplates: the plate number, date it was obtained, emul-sion, filter, center coordinates, and observer. Eachplate covers a 3◦ × 3◦ region of sky, with a scale of51.4 ′′/mm (the plates are 210× 210 mm in size). Part

of the area on each of these plates includes emissionfrom the Great Nebula in Orion, which is about 1◦in size and is located between the eastern edge andcenter of the plates, leading to a loss in the number ofstars.

The photographic plate images were translatedinto electronic form using the Tautenburg Observa-tory plate scanner [8]. The accuracy of the scanningwas 0.5 μm, and the scale was 1000 pixels/mm.The rectangular coordinates x, y and instrumentalmagnitudes were then determined using a specializedprogram [9].

3. DETERMINATION OF THE RA AND DECOF THE MEASURED STARS

We adopted reference stars for determining theequatorial coordinates from the ACT catalog [10],where α, δ correspond to the Tycho catalog [6].The observing epoch for this catalog was J1991.25(equinox J2000). The rms uncertainties in thecoordinates are presented for each star, and are, onaverage, ±29 milliarcsecond (mas) and ±23 mas in αand δ, respectively.

We identified the measured stars with referencestars using the coordinates α, δ projected onto theplate (at the epoch of our catalog, J1975.11; i.e.,the observation date for reference plate No. 4261,equinox J2000). We obtained the tangential coordi-nates xref

tang, yreftang for 300 stars from the ACT located

in the region of sky encompassed by our catalog (here,the subscript ref denotes the reference catalog). Weidentified 174 stars with the Oricat catalog using theMIDAS software. Further, we derived the 10 plateconstants by obtaining a least-squares solution forthe 174 equations for the coordinate differences x −xref

tang and y − yreftang, then determined the tangential

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Table 1. List of photographic plates from the Jena Observatory archives

Platenumber

Center coordinates, J2000 Date obtained Emulsion Filter Observer

α δ

96 5h31.0m −5◦25.8′ February 15/16, 1961 Astro-Special None Richter, Lochel

4261 5 32.4 5 27.0 February 8/9, 1975 Kodak IIa-0 None Borngen

4275 5 32.4 5 27.0 February 9/10, 1975 Kodak 103a-E RG1I Borngen

9110 5 31.7 5 24.5 June 16/17, 1996 ZU(2113) None Meusinger, Hogner

9160 5 31.7 5 24.5 December 12/13, 1996 ZU(2113) None Meusinger, Brunzendorf, Ludwig

9169 5 35.3 5 23.1 February 1/2, 1997 ZU(2113) GG13I Meusinger, Hogner

Table 2. Number of stars on the plates used in the reduction process

Plate number Numberof measured stars

Number of stars identifiedwith the reference plate

Number of starsafter removing edgezones of 7–10 mm

Number of referencestars

96 12 869 10 266 10 071 3315

4261 18 993 – 16 506 –

4275 16 256 12 635 12 266 3293

9110 19 213 12 414 16 977 3122

9160 12 370 8569 11 286 2767

9169 16 777 9401 9047 2358

coordinates for all stars in our catalog. These tan-gential coordinates were transformed into equatorialcoordinates using the projection of the plate onto asphere. In this way, we found α, δ at epoch J1975.11for equinox J2000. The mean rms uncertainty is3−4 mas.

Table 3. Plates for which corrections of the differenceswere made to take into account the brightness equation

Platenumber

Correcteddifference

Coordi-nates

Magnituderange

dxi dyi

96 Yes Yes x, y ≤ 17m

4275 Yes – x, y ≥ 18m

9110 Yes – x, y ≤ 18m

9160 Yes Yes x ≤ 17m

9160 Yes Yes y ≤ 16m

4. PROPER MOTIONS

To determine the proper motions, we obtained dif-ferential differences in the rectangular coordinates ofthe stars for each of the plates via comparison with areference plate. Plate No. 4261 was chosen as the ref-erence plate for two reasons: it has the largest overlapwith the other plate areas, and its observing epochis approximately in the center of the interval coveredby the observations. We transformed the measuredcoordinates of star i (xi, yi) to the system of thereference plate (xref

i , yrefi ) using standard procedures

in the MIDAS package. The numbers of measuredstars and of stars identified with stars on the referenceplate are given in Table 2. Analysis of the differentialcoordinate differences dxi = xi − xref

i and dyi = yi −yref

i indicated that these differed substantially from themean values at the plate edges. For this reason, starswithin 7−10 mm of the plate edges were not included,leading to a small reduction in the number of stars(Table 2).

We finally obtained a fourth-order polynomial re-gression fit, equalizing the quality of the images andrefining the dependences for the diffrential coordinatedifferences [11]. It was shown in [12] that this order for

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the polynomial fit is quite sufficient for the Tautenburgplates. The plate constants were calculated usingweak reference stars (18.0m ≤ m4261 ≤ 19.5m) withsmall proper motions (dxi, dyi ≤ 0.0035 mm).

The components of the proper motions μx, μy

and their rms uncertainties were obtained via a linearleast-squares fit to xi and yi as a function of the ob-serving epoch. A minimum of three plates were usedfor this purpose. The mean measurement uncertaintywas 3.5 mas/yr for magnitudes 15m ≤ m4261 ≤ 19m

and 5.0 mas/yr outside this interval.The brightness equation between plates was man-

ifest through the magnitude dependence of dxi ordyi. This dependence reflects a real dependence ofthe proper motions on the magnitude (brighter starsare, on average, closer and so have higher μ values).Table 3 presents the number of plates for which we in-troduced small corrections to the residual differencesusing the linear expression relating the residual differ-ences and m4261, until this dependence disappearedentirely.

Finally, the brightness equation was determinedusing stars that were members of open clusters. Theproper motions of such stars should not exhibit anymagnitude dependence. We used four clusters locatedin this region: NGC 1981, NGC 1977, the Trapez-ium, and NGC 1980. For each of the clusters, weselected stars with maximum-likelihood probabilitiesof cluster membership P > 63%. Corrections for thebrightness equation were made over several itera-tions, recalculating the cluster-membership proba-bility of the stars derived in the previous step. The final

numbers of selected cluster members with B < 18.5m

were 57, 9, 128, and 24 for NGC 1981, NGC 1977,the Trapezium, and NGC 1980, respectively. Weadopted a linear form for the brightness equation.The final uncertainties in the brightness equation inmas/yr were

ME(μx) = 14.89 − 0.747B,

ME(μy) = 6.10 − 0.313B.

Figure 1 shows the dependence of the proper mo-tions of cluster members on their magnitudes. Thisdisplays the brightness equation, which we took intoaccount in the Oricat catalog using the followingformulas.

5. COMPARISON OF CATALOGS

The proper motions in [4] and [5] have rms un-certainties of 0.54 mas/yr and 0.69 mas/yr, respec-tively; as we can see in Fig. 2, our data are in verygood agreement with these values. Table 4 presentsthe number of common stars, the mean differencesbetween the proper motions from various catalogs(“c”) and our Oricat catalog (“o”), as well as theirdispersions. Table 4 also gives the correspondingvalues for the ACT catalog, although its accuracy islower than the other catalogs considered. The formaldifferences for the HIP catalog [6] are also presented,although the disagreement between the HIP and ourown proper motions are small. This is due to thefact that we are dealing here with a small numberof bright (probably nearby) stars with approximately

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equal proper motions, whose differences are due pri-

marily to measurement errors. We can also see in

Fig. 2 that the data for the old and new versions of

the HIP catalog [6] and [7] are essentially the same.

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Table 4. Mean differences and corresponding dispersions of the proper motions between various catalogs (“c”) and theOricat catalog (“o”)

Catalog n 〈Δμx〉c-o 〈Δμy〉c-o σ〈Δμx〉c-o σ〈Δμy〉c-o

Tian et al. [4] 258 −3.00 −1.93 0.27 0.20

McNamara et al. [5] 560 −1.76 0.05 0.23 0.16

ACT [10] 174 5.08 −1.13 0.62 0.50

HIP [6] 22 3.99 −2.83 1.48 1.32

Table 5. Mean differences and corresponding dispersions of the proper motions between the PPMX catalog (“p”) andother catalogs (“c”)

Catalog n 〈Δμα〉p-c 〈Δμδ〉p-c σ〈Δμα〉p-c σ〈Δμδ〉p-c

Oricat 1050 0.47 0.90 11.23 12.40

Tian et al. [4] 73 −0.04 0.99 8.69 5.83

McNamara et al. [5] 211 1.22 −1.38 5.77 5.96

The PPMX catalog [16] contains astrometric andphotometric data for 18 million stars. The limitingmagnitude is RU = 15.2m in the GSC photometricsystem [17]. The accuracy in the proper motions is2 mas/yr for 66% of the stars and 10 mas/yr forthe remaining stars. The photometric data are takenfrom the ASCC-2.5 [18] and 2MASS [19] catalogs.PPMX consists of three parts: the first part (a) iscomplete to RU = 12.5m, the second part (b) con-tains high-accuracy μ values, and the third part (c)includes other stars from GSC 1.2 detected in the2MASS survey. We used part (a).

To cross-identify the stars in the Oricat andPPMX catalogs, we compiled a sample of stars fromthe latter whose coordinates lie in the part of thesky encompassed by Oricat (see Section 1). Recallthat Oricat contains 13 577 stars, while PPMX has7318 stars in the corresponding region. We carriedout the identifications automatically by comparing thepositions of the stars, as well as their R magnitudesin Oricat and RU magnitudes in PPMX. Stars weretaken to be identified if the difference in their positionsin the two catalogs did not exceed 1.5′′ and the dif-ference in their magnitudes was |RU − R| < 0.35m.This yielded cross-identifications for 1050 stars.

Figure 3 shows a comparison of the proper mo-tions for stars from the PPMX [16] and Oricat cat-alogs, as well as common stars from the catalogs ofTian et al. [4] (73 stars) and McNamara et al. [5](211 stars). The dispersions of these dependences aregiven in Table 5.

6. REDUCTION OF PROPER MOTIONS

TO THE HIPPARCOS SYSTEM

The considered area is located at low Galacticlatitudes in the Galactic zone of avoidance. Thus,it is possible to reduce the proper motions to aninertial system only by comparing them with propermotions in the HIP system [6]. Since there are only22 stars common to our catalog and to HIP [6], andthese are measured with large uncertainties (they arebright stars), we used stars from the AstrographicCatalog/Tycho (ACT) family of catalogs.

We compiled a master catalog of the proper mo-tions of 2156 stars brighter than 12m in a region5◦ in radius centered on the Trapezium cluster. Weused stars from the HIP [6] (336 stars), Tycho [6](2066 stars), ACT [10] (1931 stars), TRC [13] (1894stars), PPM [14] (793 stars), and CMC 11 [15] (1689stars) catalogs. The proper motions from the lastfive catalogs were reduced to the HIP system via acomparison with the HIP data [6], after which theywere averaged with corresponding weights. The Or-icat catalog contains 174 stars from this master cat-alog. The difference between the Oricat proper mo-tions (corrected for the brightness equation presentedabove) and the proper motions in the master catalogin the HIP system yields the following correction forreduction to the HIP system:

〈Δμx〉 = 〈μOrix − μHIP

x 〉= −9.41 ± 0.45 mas/yr,

〈Δμy〉 = 〈μOriy − μHIP

y 〉= −0.73 ± 0.37 mas/yr.

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Fig. 3. Comparison of the PPMX proper motions with those of other catalogs: Oricat (upper plots), Tian et al. [4] (middleplots), and McNamara et al. [5] (lower plots).

7. MAGNITUDESThe filter–emulsion combination (Table 1) for

plate No. 9169 yields a broadband B magnitude,while that for plane No. 4275 yields R. The cal-ibration for the B magnitudes in the range 13m ≤B ≤ 16m was conducted using common stars fromthe photoelectric photometric catalog [20] (Fig. 4).For weak stars with 16m ≤ B ≤ 17m, the calibrationwas constructed in two steps. First, the relationshipbetween the photographic magnitudes mpg from thecatalog of Parenago [3] and m9169 was obtained:

mpg = −48.288 + 6.080m9169 − 0.142m29169 (1)

and then the relationB = −1.3394 + 1.0937mpg (2)

based on stars common to the catalogs [20] and [3].Substituting (1) into (2) yields the calibration relationB = f(m9169) for weak stars, which is also shown inFig. 4. This relation was used to determine the Bmagnitudes for 8710 stars from our catalog. The rmsuncertainty for our derived B magnitudes is 0.03m.

We constructed the R calibration using commonstars from the USNO-A2.0 [21] catalog, whose Rmagnitudes were determined from the Palomar SkySurvey plates, with a tie to CCD images:

R = −3454.193 + 1062.235m4275 (3)

− 130.460m24275 + 8.000m3

4275

− 0.244m44275 + 0.003m5

4275.

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The dependence RUSNO−m4275 is shown in Fig. 5.We used this relation to find the R magnitudes for11 642 stars from our catalog. The rms uncertaintyin the resulting R magnitudes is 0.25m. Figure 5shows that the USNO-A2.0 catalog is fully suitablefor calibration purposes to derive these magnitudes.

8. THE CATALOG

The Oricat catalog contains data for 13 577 starsin the region of the Orion Nebula. It is accessible viaCDS. The coordinates of the center are α = 83.45◦,δ = −5.20◦ (J2000), and the region is 3◦ × 3◦ in size.The catalog includes the following information:

num—the star number in the Oricat catalog (starswe have measured are numbered from 1 to 16 999;stars with numbers ≥17 000 were added from thecatalog of Parenago [3]);

num_par—the star number in the catalog of Pare-nago [3];

α2000, δ2000, σα, σδ—equatorial coordinates forepoch J2000 and their rms uncertainties (we deter-mined the coordinates of measured stars using thestandard procedure using reference stars from theACT catalog, see Section 3); the coordinates for starsfrom the catalog of Parenago [3] were translated toJ2000 taking into account only precession);

μx, μy , σμx , σμy —our measured proper motions(see Sections 4 and 6) and their rms uncertainties (inmas/yr);

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y , σMNμx

, σMNμy

—proper motions and theirrms uncertainties from [5];

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y , σTμx

, σTμy

—proper motions and their rmsuncertainties from [4];

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y , σACTμx

, σACTμy

—proper motions andtheir rms uncertainties from the ACT catalog;

μHx , μH

y , σHμx

, σHμy

—proper motions and their rmsuncertainties from the HIP catalog [6];

μHrevx , μHrev

y , σHrevμx

, σHrevμy

—proper motions and theirrms uncertainties from the revised HIP catalog [7];

μPPMXx , μPPMX

y , σPPMXμx

, σPPMXμy

—proper motionsand their rms uncertainties from the PPMX catalog;

B, R—our derived magnitudes;sp_par—spectra from [3];sp_Wal—МК spectra from [20].Figure 6 shows the distribution of stars from our

catalog in equatorial coordinates. The density of starsin the vicinity of the Great Nebula in Orion is low,and has a clumpy structure, due to the properties ofthe distribution of absorbing material. The positionsof the clusters NGC 1981, NGC 1977, OMC-2, theTrapezium, and NGC 1980 are shown. These clusters

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are located in the region of Orion’s Sword. As canbe seen in Fig. 6, our catalog does not provide richmaterial for searches for new cluster members, but wehave successfully applied it, supplemented with addi-

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tional data, to study features in the spatial structureand kinematics of the region of Orion’s Sword [22].

9. CONCLUSION

We have used six photographic plates from theTautenburg astrograph to derive proper motions for12 740 stars in the vicinity of the Great Nebula inOrion. The rms uncertainties in the proper motionsare 3.4 mas/yr for magnitudes 6m ≤ B ≤ 10m and5.0 mas/yr outside this interval. We determined the Band R magnitudes of the catalog stars using calibra-tions we derived. We have found μ values for 784 newstars in the region considered in the previous mostmassive determination of proper motions, carried outby Parenago [3], and have supplemented our catalogwith the data of [3].

The Oricat catalog provides a basis for compilingmaster catalogs of astrometric parameters, and can

be used to study features of the structure and kine-matics of the stellar population in the vicinity of theGreat Nebula in Orion. As a continuation of thispaper, we have compiled a master catalog of stars inthe region of Orion’s Sword, which was used as abasis for studies of the spatial and kinematic structureof this region [22].

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

We thank E. Schilbach, N.V. Kharchenko, andR.D. Scholz for numerous discussions of these re-sults, and J. Brunzendorf and H. Meusinger for helpin organizing the work at Jena Observatory.

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