TY - JOUR
T1 - A pan-carina young stellar object catalog
T2 - Intermediate-mass young stellar objects in the Carina Nebula identified via mid-infrared excess emission
AU - Povich, Matthew S.
AU - Smith, Nathan
AU - Majewski, Steven R.
AU - Getman, Konstantin V.
AU - Townsley, Leisa K.
AU - Babler, Brian L.
AU - Broos, Patrick S.
AU - Indebetouw, Rémy
AU - Meade, Marilyn R.
AU - Robitaille, Thomas P.
AU - Stassun, Keivan G.
AU - Whitney, Barbara A.
AU - Yonekura, Yoshinori
AU - Fukui, Yasuo
PY - 2011/5
Y1 - 2011/5
N2 - We present a catalog of 1439 young stellar objects (YSOs) spanning the 1.42deg2 field surveyed by the Chandra Carina Complex Project (CCCP), which includes the major ionizing clusters and the most active sites of ongoing star formation within the Great Nebula in Carina. Candidate YSOs were identified via infrared (IR) excess emission from dusty circumstellar disks and envelopes, using data from the Spitzer Space Telescope (the Vela-Carina survey) and the Two-Micron All Sky Survey. We model the 1-24 μm IR spectral energy distributions of the YSOs to constrain physical properties. Our Pan-Carina YSO Catalog (PCYC) is dominated by intermediate-mass (2 M Ȯ < m ≲ 10 M Ȯ) objects with disks, including Herbig Ae/Be stars and their less evolved progenitors. The PCYC provides a valuable complementary data set to the CCCP X-ray source catalogs, identifying 1029 YSOs in Carina with no X-ray detection. We also catalog 410 YSOs with X-ray counterparts, including 62 candidate protostars. Candidate protostars with X-ray detections tend to be more evolved than those without. In most cases, X-ray emission apparently originating from intermediate-mass, disk-dominated YSOs is consistent with the presence of low-mass companions, but we also find that X-ray emission correlates with cooler stellar photospheres and higher disk masses. We suggest that intermediate-mass YSOs produce X-rays during their early pre-main-sequence evolution, perhaps driven by magnetic dynamo activity during the convective atmosphere phase, but this emission dies off as the stars approach the main sequence. Extrapolating over the stellar initial mass function scaled to the PCYC population, we predict a total population of >2 × 104 YSOs and a present-day star formation rate (SFR) of >0.008 M Ȯyr-1. The global SFR in the Carina Nebula, averaged over the past 5Myr, has been approximately constant.
AB - We present a catalog of 1439 young stellar objects (YSOs) spanning the 1.42deg2 field surveyed by the Chandra Carina Complex Project (CCCP), which includes the major ionizing clusters and the most active sites of ongoing star formation within the Great Nebula in Carina. Candidate YSOs were identified via infrared (IR) excess emission from dusty circumstellar disks and envelopes, using data from the Spitzer Space Telescope (the Vela-Carina survey) and the Two-Micron All Sky Survey. We model the 1-24 μm IR spectral energy distributions of the YSOs to constrain physical properties. Our Pan-Carina YSO Catalog (PCYC) is dominated by intermediate-mass (2 M Ȯ < m ≲ 10 M Ȯ) objects with disks, including Herbig Ae/Be stars and their less evolved progenitors. The PCYC provides a valuable complementary data set to the CCCP X-ray source catalogs, identifying 1029 YSOs in Carina with no X-ray detection. We also catalog 410 YSOs with X-ray counterparts, including 62 candidate protostars. Candidate protostars with X-ray detections tend to be more evolved than those without. In most cases, X-ray emission apparently originating from intermediate-mass, disk-dominated YSOs is consistent with the presence of low-mass companions, but we also find that X-ray emission correlates with cooler stellar photospheres and higher disk masses. We suggest that intermediate-mass YSOs produce X-rays during their early pre-main-sequence evolution, perhaps driven by magnetic dynamo activity during the convective atmosphere phase, but this emission dies off as the stars approach the main sequence. Extrapolating over the stellar initial mass function scaled to the PCYC population, we predict a total population of >2 × 104 YSOs and a present-day star formation rate (SFR) of >0.008 M Ȯyr-1. The global SFR in the Carina Nebula, averaged over the past 5Myr, has been approximately constant.
KW - open clusters and associations: individual (Trumpler 16)
KW - stars: massive
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U2 - 10.1088/0067-0049/194/1/14
DO - 10.1088/0067-0049/194/1/14
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:79957625424
VL - 194
JO - Astrophysical Journal, Supplement Series
JF - Astrophysical Journal, Supplement Series
SN - 0067-0049
IS - 1
M1 - 14
ER -