Spectral analysis of YSOs and other emission-line stars in the North America and Pelican nebulae region

Details Spectral analysis of YSOs and other emission-line stars in the North America and Pelican nebulae region Spectral analysis of YSOs and other emission-line stars in the North America and Pelican nebulae region

2009-11-23

arxiv.org/abs/0911.4287v1

Baltic Astronomy, Vol.18, No.2, pages 111-139, 2009

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Galaxy Astrophysics

29 pages, 6 figures

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Far red spectra for 34 stars with V magnitudes between 15 and 18 in the direction of the North America and Pelican nebulae (NAP) star-forming region are obtained. Some of these stars were known earlier as emission-line objects, others were suspected as pre-main-sequence stars from photometry in the J, H, Ks and Vilnius systems. We confirm the presence of the H alpha line emission in the spectra of 19 stars, some of them exhibit also emission in the O I and Ca II lines. In some of the stars the H alpha absorption line is filled with emission. To estimate their evolutionary status, the spectral energy distributions, based on Vilnius, 2MASS, MSX and Spitzer photometry, are applied. Only eight emission-line stars are found to be located at a distance of the NAP complex. Others are either chromospherically active stars in front of the complex or distant luminous stars with H alpha absorption and emission components. For five stars with faint emission the data are not sufficient to estimate their distance. One star is found to be a heavily reddened K-supergiant located in the Outer arm. The stars, for which we failed to confirm the emission in H alpha, are mostly red dwarfs located in front of the NAP complex, two of them could be binaries with L-type components. Taking into account the stars suspected to be YSOs by their 2MASS colors we conclude that the NAP complex can possess a considerable population of young stars hidden behind the dust cloud.

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