Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy
Scientific paper
Aug 2003
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2003basbr..23..117l&link_type=abstract
Boletim da Sociedade Astronômica Brasileira (ISSN 0101-3440), vol.23, no.1, p. 117-117
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astronomy
Scientific paper
The M42 region in Orion is one of the most active regarding stellar formation in the neighborhood of the solar system. At a distance of 450pc, it gives us an excellent oportunity to study star formation processes. By studying 22 films of this region, covering an area of 5 by 5 degrees, taken in almost regular intervals through 2.5 years by ESO 1m Schimdt Telescope, in La Silla, Chile, we seek to discover variable stars among the young stars. These films were digitalized by the SuperCOSMOS (the most precise scientific scanner today) team, and each film were exposed for 30 minutes. Our knowledge about the variability of low-mass young variable stars were outdated, and were based on old photographic plates, which were studied by the so called blink comparators and Iris photometers. Now we developed a process to study these data and identify possible candidate stars to be constants or variables, and developed some softwares based on this process. We also used some softwares supplied by the SuperCosmos team to help our analysis of the dataset. After identifying the stars, which we, definitively, can consider variables, we will study more deeply these ones in hope to obtain more data about the formation process. We expect to detect thousands of new variables within our data as also the light curves for each star detected.
Lima H. R. G. A.
Reipurth Bo
Vaz Luiz Paulo Ribeiro
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