Disk Detective Talk

Good candidate or not?

  • biggsjrex by biggsjrex moderator

    This YSO seems clearly extended in WISE 4, but has been classified as YSO + disk in several references in VizieR based mostly on Spitzer survey data. Is this a good candidate?

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  • marckuchner by marckuchner scientist, admin

    I agree, Joe! The Spitzer images are higher resolution---maybe they showed something that we can't see.

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  • abans by abans scientist, moderator

    A lot of YSOs are in star formation regions, which often means they are embedded in clouds of gas and dust. Hence sometime they'll clearly be extended like this guy. We usually want to ignore these for two reasons (though this guy isn't that extended 😃 ). Reason 1: unless we devote a lot of effort we can't really tell if the excess is coming from the cloud or object (like Marc mentioned, Spitzer can see a lot better than we can). Reason 2: If they are already in a well known star formation region, they are probably already well studied like this one and we want to find the ones that haven't been found!

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  • anoxie by anoxie

    unless we devote a lot of effort we can't really tell if the excess is
    coming from the cloud or object

    Do you have any example? Because this one looks clearly like a YSO to me.

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