Kinematics of the Young Stellar Objects associated with the Cometary Globules in the Gum Nebula

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2008-11-26

arxiv.org/abs/0811.4389v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

19 pages, 6 figures, 4 tables, Accepted for publication in MNRAS

Scientific paper

10.1111/j.1365-2966.2008.14189.x

An analysis of proper motion measurements of the Young Stellar Objects (YSOs) associated with the Cometary Globules (CGs) in the Gum Nebula is presented. While earlier studies based on the radial velocity measurements of the CGs suggested expansion of the system of the CGs, the observed proper motion of the YSOs shows no evidence for expansion. In particular the kinematics of two YSOs embedded in CGs is inconsistent with the supernova explosion of the companion of $\zeta$ Pup about 1.5 Myr ago as the cause of the expansion of the CG system. YSOs associated with the CGs share the average proper motion of the member stars of the Vela OB2 association. A few YSOs that have relatively large proper motions are found to show relatively low infrared excesses.

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