Extended Near-Infrared Emission from Candidate Protostars in the Taurus-Auriga Molecular Cloud
Astrophysics
2009-11-07 v1
Abstract
We describe near-IR imaging data for a sample of 23 class I sources in the Taurus-Auriga dark clouds. Combining our data with previous photometry, we detect brightness variations of 0.1-0.5 mag in many sources. The near-IR morphologies are consistent with mm continuum measurements. Most (60%) of the sample are true protostars; the rest may be objects in transition between class I and class II, T Tauri stars with edge-on disks, or heavily reddened T Tauri stars.
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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0203016,
title = {Extended Near-Infrared Emission from Candidate Protostars in the Taurus-Auriga Molecular Cloud},
author = {Shinae Park and Scott J. Kenyon},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0203016},
year = {2009}
}
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15 pages, 3 tables, 4 figures; to appear in the June 2002 Astronomical Journal