New Young Stellar Object candidates in the Chamaeleon I molecular cloud discovered by DENIS

Details New Young Stellar Object candidates in the Chamaeleon I molecular cloud discovered by DENIS New Young Stellar Object candidates in the Chamaeleon I molecular cloud discovered by DENIS

1998-07-08

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9807079v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

12 pages, 8 figures, accepted in A&A

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This paper presents an analysis of the nature of point sources discovered by DENIS in an area of 1.5 x 3 degrees around the Chamaeleon I molecular cloud. Most of the 30000 objects detected in the J band are background stars that were previously used to derive an accurate extinction map of the full area (Cambresy et al., 1997) using star count method. In the present work, we investigate the young stellar population of the cloud using the IJK photometric DENIS data. The whole sample of 126 already known YSOs, which are mainly T Tauri stars, are identified in the DENIS catalogue. Besides, we propose 54 sources as new candidates of YSOs. These new faint objects are selected according to their extremely red near infrared colour, that cannot be explained only by the reddening of the cloud. Moreover they are concentrated near to the most obscured areas of the cloud. Although spectroscopic confirmation is badly requested, they are interpreted as probable classical T Tauri stars that have escaped previous spectroscopic, IRAS or X-ray observations and pertaining to the low-end of the luminosity function. Assuming that they are reliable YSOs with massive accretion disks, and using theoretical pre-main-sequence tracks we estimate the age of this sample to be ranging from 5 10^5 to 4 10^6 years, an elapse of time that spans the range between the end of the star formation in the cloud and the maximum life time of the circumstellar disk.

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