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金牛座暗云中被尘埃染红的背景恒星目录

A Catalog of Background Stars Reddened by Dust in the Taurus Dark Clouds

S. S. Shenoy, D. C. B. Whittet, J. A. Ives, D. M. Watson

摘要:

位于稠密云层后面的正常场星是星际天体物理学的宝贵资源,因为它们提供了研究气相和固态吸收特征、星际消光和偏振等现象的连续谱。本文报道了在金牛座暗云复合体后面寻找高度变红恒星的结果。我们使用两微米全天巡天(2 MASS)点源目录来测量50平方度的云区域,其极限星等为K = 10.0。来自2 MASS的1.2-2.2微米通带的测光与来自斯皮策太空望远镜和红外天文卫星的更长红外波长(3.6-12微米)的测光相结合,以提供红化场星和嵌入云中的年轻恒星物体(YSO)之间的有效区分。我们的最终星表包含了248颗已确认或可能的背景场星,以及它们的总视向距离的估计,范围为2-29等。我们还确定了2 MASS源J 04292083 +2742074(IRAS 04262+2735)作为以前未被承认的候选人YSO,这是基于红外发射的存在大大超过了对波长>5微米的正常变红光球的预测。

英文摘要:

Normal field stars located behind dense clouds are a valuable resource in interstellar astrophysics, as they provide continua in which to study phenomena such as gas-phase and solid-state absorption features, interstellar extinction and polarization. This paper reports the results of a search for highly reddened stars behind the Taurus Dark Cloud complex. We use the Two Micron All Sky Survey (2MASS) Point Source Catalog to survey a 50 sq deg area of the cloud to a limiting magnitude of K = 10.0. Photometry in the 1.2-2.2 micron passbands from 2MASS is combined with photometry at longer infrared wavelengths (3.6-12 micron) from the Spitzer Space Telescope and the Infrared Astronomical Satellite to provide effective discrimination between reddened field stars and young stellar objects (YSOs) embedded in the cloud. Our final catalog contains 248 confirmed or probable background field stars, together with estimates of their total visual extinctions, which span the range 2-29 mag. We also identify the 2MASS source J04292083+2742074 (IRAS 04262+2735) as a previously unrecognized candidate YSO, based on the presence of infrared emission greatly in excess of that predicted for a normal reddened photosphere at wavelengths >5 microns.

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