Young stellar objects detected by IRAS

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Early Stars, Infrared Astronomy Satellite, Infrared Sources (Astronomy), Infrared Spectrophotometers, Pre-Main Sequence Stars, Sky Surveys (Astronomy), Spectral Bands, Stellar Color, Stellar Luminosity

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Fluxes of 453 IRAS point sources selected for proximity to dense gas have been accurately determined by co-adding IRAS data. From this set, 258 sources are detected in all four bands: 12, 25, 60, and 100 microns. As distance from dense molecular material increases, these sources exhibit systematic trends in color and a markedly decreasing luminosity. These trends are broadly consistent with expected evolutionary changes in these stars, with younger objects found closer to dense gas. These data suggest a subtle variation on the criterion for identifying the youngest objects detectable by IRAS, in addition to that of steeply rising spectra: a color temperature which is uniform across all four IRAS bands in the range 40-50 K. These characteristics are used as a criterion to select point sources as candidate very young pre-main-sequence stars.

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