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WIDE-FIELD INFRARED SURVEY EXPLORER OBSERVATIONS OF YOUNG STELLAR OBJECTS IN THE LYNDS 1509 DARK CLOUD IN AURIGA
Ist Teil von
The Astronomical journal, 2014-06, Vol.147 (6), p.1-15
Ort / Verlag
United States
Erscheinungsjahr
2014
Quelle
EZB Electronic Journals Library
Beschreibungen/Notizen
The Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) has uncovered a striking cluster of young stellar object (YSO) candidates associated with the L1509 dark cloud in Auriga. The WISE observations, at 3.4 mu m, 4.6 mu m, 12 mu m, and 22 mu m, show a number of objects with colors consistent with YSOs, and their spectral energy distributions suggest the presence of circumstellar dust emission, including numerous Class I, flat spectrum, and Class II objects. In general, the YSOs in L1509 are much more tightly clustered than YSOs in other dark clouds in the Taurus-Auriga star forming region, with Class I and flat spectrum objects confined to the densest aggregates, and Class II objects more sparsely distributed. We estimate a most probable distance of 485-700 pc, and possibly as far as the previously estimated distance of 2 kpc.