Towards a complete census of young stars in the solar neighbourhood with SkyMapper

Details Towards a complete census of young stars in the solar neighbourhood with SkyMapper Towards a complete census of young stars in the solar neighbourhood with SkyMapper

2008-06-10

arxiv.org/abs/0806.1611v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

5 pages, 2 figures. To appear in proceedings of the 8th Pacific Rim Conference on Stellar Astrophysics, Phuket, May 2008

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In this contribution we outline plans for identifying and characterising numerous young, low-mass stars within 150 pc of the Sun using the new SkyMapper telescope and Southern Sky Survey. We aim to learn more about the star formation history of the solar neighbourhood over the past 5-50 Myr, the dispersal processes involved, as well as testing pre-main sequence evolutionary models and the universality of the stellar Inital Mass Function. Searching for the dispersed halo of low-mass objects predicted to surround the Eta Chamaeleontis cluster will be one of the first goals of the project.

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