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.
| Original language | English |
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| Article number | 28 |
| Journal | Astrophysical Journal, Supplement Series |
| Volume | 229 |
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| Publication status | Published - 1 Apr 2017 |
Keywords
- infrared: stars
- open clusters and associations: general
- stars: early-type
- stars: formation
- stars: pre-main sequence
- X-rays: stars
- Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies
- Astrophysics - Solar and Stellar Astrophysics