A proper motion study of the Lupus clouds using VO tools

Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics – Solar and Stellar Astrophysics

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Aims: By using kinematical information, we test the membership of the new Lupus candidate members proposed by the Cores to Disks (c2d) Spitzer Legacy Program program and by a complementary optical survey. We also investigate the relationship between the proper motions (pm) and other properties, in order to get some clues about their formation and early evolution. Methods: We compiled a list of members and possible members of Lupus 1, 3, and 4, together with all information on their spectral types, disks, and physical parameters. Using VO-tools, we cross-matched this list with the astrometric catalogues to get pm. Our final sample contains sources with magnitudes I<16mag and estimated masses >~0.1Msun. Results: According to the kinematic information, our sources can be divided into two main groups. The first one contains sources with higher pm in agreement with other Gould Belt populations and with spatial distribution, optical and near-infrared colours, and disk composition consistent with these objects belonging to the Lupus clouds. In the second group, sources have lower pm with random orientations, and they are mostly located outside the cloud cores, making their association with the Lupus complex more doubtful. We investigate the properties of the higher pm group, but cannot find any correlations with spatial location, binarity, the presence of a circumstellar disk, or with physical properties such as effective temperature, luminosity, mass, or age. Conclusions: We conclude that the lower pm group probably represents a background population or mixture of populations unrelated to the Lupus clouds. The higher pm group, on the other hand, has properties consistent with it being a genuine population of the Lupus star-forming region. More accurate pm and/or radial velocity information are required for a more detailed study of the kinematic properties of the Lupus stellar members.

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