Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics – Solar and Stellar Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2012-03-12
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Solar and Stellar Astrophysics
accepted for publication in ApJS
Scientific paper
The Spitzer GLIMPSE survey has revealed a number of "Extended Green Objects" (EGOs) which display extended emission at 4.5 micron. These EGOs are potential candidates for high mass protostellar outflows. We have used high resolution (< 1") H2 1-0 S(1) line, K, and H-band images from the United Kingdom Infrared Telescope to study 34 EGOs to investigate their nature. We found that 12 EGOs exhibit H2 outflows (two with chains of H2 knotty structures; five with extended H2 bipolar structures; three with extended H2 lobes; two with pairs of H2 knots). In the 12 EGOs with H2 outflows, three of them exhibit similar morphologies between the 4.5 micron and H2 emission. However, the remaining 9 EGOs show that the H2 features are more extended than the continuum features, and the H2 emission is seldom associated with continuum emission. Furthermore, the morphologies of the near-infrared continuum and 4.5 micron emission are similar to each other for those EGOs with K-band emission, implying that at least a part of the IRAC-band continuum emission of EGOs comes from scattered light from the embedded YSOs.
Duan Hao-Yuan
Froebrich Dirk
Karr Jennifer
Lee Hsu-Tai
Liu Sheng-Yuan
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