Star Formation In Nearby Clouds (SFiNCs): X-Ray and Infrared Source Catalogs and Membership
Year: 2017
Type: article
Abstract: The Star Formation in Nearby Clouds (SFiNCs) project is aimed at providing a detailed study of the young stellar populations and of star cluster formation in the nearby 22 star-forming regions (SFRs) for comparison with our earlier MYStIX survey of richer, more distant clusters. As a foundation for the SFiNCs science studies, here, homogeneous data analyses of the Chandra X-ray and Spitzer mid-infrared archival SFiNCs data are described, and the resulting catalogs of over 15,300 X-ray and over 1,630,000 mid-infrared point sources are presented. On the basis of their X-ray/infrared properties and spatial distributions, nearly 8500 point sources have been identified as probable young stellar members of the SFiNCs regions. Compared to the existing X-ray/mid-infrared publications, the SFiNCs member list increases the census of YSO members by 6%–200% for individual SFRs and by 40% for the merged sample of all 22 SFiNCs SFRs.
Authors: Konstantin V. Getman, Patrick S. Broos, Michael A. Kuhn, Eric D. Feigelson, Alexander J. W. Richert, Yosuke Ota, Matthew R. Bate, Gordon P. Garmire
Language: English
Subfield: Astronomy and Astrophysics
Field: Physics and Astronomy
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
Awards: G1390571956, G2182214808, G2620723556, G3494628892, G3561758408, G3582196273, G3815726687, G5780980149, G6841676904, G7152467290, G8493109902, MOST STARS FORM IN CLUSTERS THAT RAPIDLY DISPERSE, YET WE HAVE A POOR UNDERSTANDING OF THE PROCESSES OF CLUSTER FORMATION AND EARLY EVOLUTION. DO CLU
OpenAlex ID: W2595037155