Star Formation in the Gulf of Mexico
Solar and Stellar Astrophysics
2015-05-27 v2
Abstract
We present an optical/infrared study of the dense molecular cloud, L935, dubbed "The Gulf of Mexico", which separates the North America and the Pelican nebulae, and we demonstrate that this area is a very active star forming region. A wide-field imaging study with interference filters has revealed 35 new Herbig-Haro objects in the Gulf of Mexico. A grism survey has identified 41 Halpha emission-line stars, 30 of them new. A small cluster of partly embedded pre-main sequence stars is located around the known LkHalpha 185-189 group of stars, which includes the recently erupting FUor HBC 722.
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@article{arxiv.1101.4670,
title = {Star Formation in the Gulf of Mexico},
author = {Tina Armond and Bo Reipurth and John Bally and Colin Aspin},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1101.4670},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
Submitted to A&A, 14 pages, 18 figures