Deep Inside the Lagoon Nebula

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Sep 2002

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2002cxo..prop.1141g&link_type=abstract

Chandra Proposal ID #04200417

Computer Science

Chandra Proposal Id #04200417

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The Lagoon Nebula (M8) is one of the brightest galactic HII regions. While 9 Sgr (O4) and the adjoining OB cluster NGC 6530 have been well studied, the low-mass population has been difficult to identify. Based on the number of optically visible OB stars, we predict that a deep ACIS-I exposure of the Lagoon nebula region will reveal >1500 X-ray sources, most of them classical and weak-line T-Tauri stars. At the heart of this region is the Hourglass Nebula, its exciting O7 star Herschel 36, an ultra-compact HII region, a dense cluster of infrared objects and a ridge of 850um emission cores: signposts of active star formation. By matching infrared sources with X-ray selected Class I, II and III YSOs, we will signficantly increase our census of low-mass stars in galactic HII regions.

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