Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy
Scientific paper
Dec 2007
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2007aas...211.1206p&link_type=abstract
American Astronomical Society, AAS Meeting #211, #12.06; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 39, p.750
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astronomy
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Lacking young stellar clusters and luminous OB stars, the Taurus dark clouds hosts a distributed mode of star formation that has proved particularly amenable to observational and theoretical study. During 2005 - 2007, our team mapped approximately 43 square degrees of the Taurus clouds with the Spitzer imaging instruments IRAC and MIPS. These images form the largest contiguous Spitzer map of a single star-forming region, as well as the largest area mapped by Spitzer outside the galactic plane. In this contribution, we present images of the entire Taurus Spitzer survey region at 3.6, 4.5, 5.8, 8.0, 24, 70, and 160 microns.
These images highlight the infrared excess of young stars within the clouds as well as star-forming galaxies in the background, as well as tracing the dusty molecular material in the region. Approximately two-thirds of the reprocessed images displayed here are available for download through our website at the Spitzer Science Center http://ssc.spitzer.caltech.edu/legacy/taurushistory.html .
Audard Marc
Brooke Timothy
Carey Sean
Evans J. III N.
Fukagawa Misato
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