New young star candidates in Taurus-Auriga

DOI

The Taurus Molecular Cloud subtends a large solid angle on the sky, in excess of 250deg^2^. The search for legitimate Taurus members to date has been limited by sky coverage as well as the challenge of distinguishing members from field interlopers. The Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer has recently observed the entire sky, and we take advantage of the opportunity to search for young stellar object (YSO) candidate Taurus members from a ~260deg^2^ region designed to encompass previously identified Taurus members. We use near- and mid-infrared colors to select objects with apparent infrared excesses and incorporate other catalogs of ancillary data to present a list of rediscovered Taurus YSOs with infrared excesses (taken to be due to circumstellar disks), a list of rejected YSO candidates (largely galaxies), and a list of 94 surviving candidate new YSO-like Taurus members. There is likely to be contamination lingering in this candidate list, and follow-up spectra are warranted.

Cone search capability for table J/ApJS/196/4/catalog (Catalog of known, rejected and new YSO candidates in the Taurus-Auriga region)

Identifier
DOI http://doi.org/10.26093/cds/vizier.21960004
Source https://dc.g-vo.org/rr/q/lp/custom/CDS.VizieR/J/ApJS/196/4
Related Identifier https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/cat/J/ApJS/196/4
Related Identifier https://vizier.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/VizieR-2?-source=J/ApJS/196/4
Metadata Access http://dc.g-vo.org/rr/q/pmh/pubreg.xml?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_b2find&identifier=ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJS/196/4
Provenance
Creator Rebull L.M.; Koenig X.P.; Padgett D.L.; Terebey S.; McGehee P.M.,Hillenbrand L.A.; Knapp G.R.; Leisawitz D.; Liu W.; Noriega-Crespo A.,Ressler M.E.; Stapelfeldt K.R.; Fajardo-Acosta S.; Mainzer A.
Publisher CDS
Publication Year 2011
Rights https://cds.unistra.fr/vizier-org/licences_vizier.html
OpenAccess true
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Representation
Resource Type Dataset; AstroObjects
Discipline Astrophysics and Astronomy; Interstellar medium; Natural Sciences; Observational Astronomy; Physics; Stellar Astronomy