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arxiv 2107.14481 v1 pith:5KSWGAYS submitted 2021-07-30 astro-ph.GA astro-ph.SR

Radio observations of massive stars in the Galactic centre: The Quintuplet cluster

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We present high-angular-resolution radio continuum observations of the Quintuplet cluster, one of the most emblematic massive clusters in the Galactic centre. Data were acquired in two epochs and at 6 and 10 GHz with the Karl J. Jansky Very Large Array. With this work, we have quadrupled the number of known radio stars in the cluster. Nineteen of them have spectral indices consistent with thermal emission from ionised stellar winds, five are consistent with colliding wind binaries, two are ambiguous cases, and one was only detected in a single band. Regarding variability, remarkably we find a significantly higher fraction of variable stars in the Quintuplet cluster (approximately 30%) than in the Arches cluster (< 15%), probably due to the older age of the Quintuplet cluster. Our determined stellar wind mass-loss rates are in good agreement with theoretical models. Finally, we show that the radio luminosity function can be used as a tool to constrain the age and the mass function of a cluster.

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