Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
1998-04-18
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
19 pages of text, 4 pages of tables, and 10 pages of figures
Scientific paper
10.1086/300368
This paper describes the first optical spectroscopic survey of class I sources (also known as embedded sources and protostars) in the Taurus-Auriga dark cloud. We detect 10 of the 24 known class I sources in the cloud at 5500-9000 A. All detected class I sources have strong H-alpha emission; most also have strong [O I] and [S II] emission. These data - together with high quality optical spectra of T Tauri stars in the Taurus-Auriga cloud - demonstrate that forbidden emission lines are stronger and more common in class I sources than in T Tauri stars. Our results also provide a clear discriminant in the frequency of forbidden line emission between weak-emission and classical T Tauri stars. In addition to strong emission lines, three class I sources have prominent TiO absorption bands. The M-type central stars of these sources mingle with optically visible T Tauri stars in the HR diagram and lie somewhat below both the birthline for spherical accretion and the deuterium burning sequence for disc accretion.
Berlind Perry
Brown David I.
Kenyon Scott. J.
Tout Chris
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