Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2006-10-26
Astrophys.J.655:364-374,2007
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Scientific paper
10.1086/510115
Infrared images of the dark cloud core B59 were obtained with the Spitzer Space Telescope as part of the "Cores to Disks" Legacy Science project. Photometry from 3.6-70 microns indicates at least 20 candidate low-mass young stars near the core, more than doubling the previously known population. Out of this group, 13 are located within about 0.1 pc in projection of the molecular gas peak, where a new embedded source is detected. Spectral energy distributions span the range from small excesses above photospheric levels to rising in the mid-infrared. One other embedded object, probably associated with the millimeter source B59-MMS1, with a bolometric luminosity L(bol) roughly 2 L(sun), has extended structure at 3.6 and 4.5 microns, possibly tracing the edges of an outflow cavity. The measured extinction through the central part of the core is A(V) greater than of order 45 mag. The B59 core is producing young stars with a high efficiency.
Adwin Boogert A. C.
Allen Lori E.
Blake Geoffrey A.
Bourke Tyler L.
Brooke Timothy Young
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