The IC2118 association: new T Tauri stars in high-latitude molecular clouds

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2004-02-14

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0402353v1

Astron.Astrophys. 418 (2004) 89-98

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

11 pages, 6 figures, accepted for publication by Astronomy and Astrophysics

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10.1051/0004-6361:20034510

We identified new pre-main sequence stars in the region of high-latitude molecular clouds associated with the reflection nebula IC2118, around l = 208 degr and b = -27 degr. The stars were selected as T Tauri candidates in objective prism plates obtained with the Schmidt telescope of Konkoly Observatory. Results of spectroscopic follow-up observations, carried out with the FLAIR spectrograph installed on the UK Schmidt and with ALFOSC on Nordic Optical Telescope, are presented in this paper. Based on spectral types, presence of emission lines and lithium absorption line, we identified five classical T Tauri stars and a candidate weak-line T Tauri star projected on the molecular clouds, as well as two candidate pre-main sequence stars outside the nebulous region. Using the near infrared magnitudes obtained from the 2MASS All Sky Catalog. we determined the masses and ages of these stars. We found that the five classical T Tauri stars projected on the clouds are physically related to them, whereas the other stars are probably background objects. Adopting a distance of 210 pc for IC2118 (Kun et al. 2001) and using Palla & Stahler's (1999) evolutionary tracks we derived an average age of 2.5 million yrs and a mass interval of 0.4--1.0 M_sun for the members of the IC2118 association.

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