The M 16 Star-Forming Region

Details The M 16 Star-Forming Region The M 16 Star-Forming Region

Sep 2000

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2000cxo..prop..445l&link_type=abstract

Chandra Proposal ID #02200137

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Chandra Proposal Id #02200137

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The Eagle Nebula (M 16, NGC 6611) is a giant H II region with an optically visible cluster of very young MS OB stars and low-mass pre-main sequence stars. The fingers of the Eagle Nebula also contain some of the youngest known embedded mm and infrared protostars. We will obtain an 80-ks ACIS-I image of the core of the Eagle Nebula to look for X-ray emission and flares from the stars and protostars of M 16. To our knowledge, this is the first pointed X-ray observation of M 16. Given the distance to M 16 (2.1 kpc) and the high density of stars (2200 catalogued stars within 20 arcmin of the cluster center), a long-exposure Chandra image is needed to reliably detect and identify the X-ray sources.

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