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IRAS and Star Formation in Dark Clouds

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 August 2017

J. P. Emerson
J. P. Emerson*
Affiliation:
Department of Physics, Queen Mary College, Mile End Road, London E1 4NS, ENGLAND

Abstract

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As a first step in systematically studying star formation in dark clouds we report a search for IRAS Point Source Catalog detections lieing within the boundaries of Southern Dark Clouds in the catalog of Hartley et al. (1986). To aid in further classifying the 1099 objects by their infrared colours the colours of the whole IRAS Point Source Catalog are discussed and plotted, and the regions occupied by various types of objects tabulated. The presence of Cirrus makes it difficult to confidently identify protostellar like objects from IRAS data alone. Nevertheless 247 sources have colours characteristic of objects deeply embedded in the dark clouds and are probably at least young stars of low mass. These sources appear to be located at random positions within the dark cloud volumes and there is no evidence to suggest that formation of low mass stars in this dark cloud sample is externally triggered.

Type
I. Star Forming Processes in the Solar Neighborhood
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 115: Star Forming Regions , 1987 , pp. 19 - 31
Copyright
Copyright © Reidel 1987 

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