Extended Near-Infrared Emission from Candidate Protostars in the Taurus-Auriga Molecular Cloud
- 1 June 2002
- journal article
- Published by American Astronomical Society in The Astronomical Journal
- Vol. 123 (6) , 3370-3379
- https://doi.org/10.1086/340467
Abstract
We describe near-IR imaging data for a sample of 23 class I sources in the Taurus-Auriga dark clouds. Combining our data with previous photometry, we detect brightness variations of 0.1-0.5 mag in many sources. The near-IR morphologies are consistent with mm continuum measurements. Most (60%) of the sample are true protostars; the rest may be objects in transition between class I and class II, T Tauri stars with edge-on disks, or heavily reddened T Tauri stars.Comment: 15 pages, 3 tables, 4 figures; to appear in the June 2002 Astronomical JournaKeywords
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