The Ages of Optically Bright Subclusters in the Serpens Star-forming Region

Xingyu Zhou, Gregory J. Herczeg, Yao Liu, Min Fang, Michael Kuhn

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Abstract

The Serpens Molecular Cloud is one of the most active star-forming regions within 500 pc, with over 1000 young stellar objects (YSOs) at different evolutionary stages. The ages of the member stars inform us about the star formation history of the cloud. In this paper, we develop a spectral energy distribution (SED) fitting method for nearby evolved (diskless) young stars from members of the Pleiades to estimate their ages, with a temperature scale adopted from APOGEE spectra. When compared with literature temperatures of selected YSOs in Orion, the SED fits to cool (
Original languageEnglish
Article number77
JournalThe Astrophysical Journal
Volume933
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Jul 2022

Keywords

  • Young star clusters
  • T Tauri stars
  • Spectral energy distribution
  • Star forming regions
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  • Astrophysics - Solar and Stellar Astrophysics
  • Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies

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