The Spitzer c2d Survey of Large, Nearby, Interstellar Clouds. VIII. Serpens Observed with MIPS
- Creators
- Harvey, Paul M.
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Rebull, Luisa M.
- Brooke, Tim
- Spiesman, William J.
- Chapman, Nicholas
- Huard, Tracy L.
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Evans, Neal J., II
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Cieza, Lucas
- Lai, Shih-Ping
- Allen, Lori E.
- Mundy, Lee G.
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Padgett, Deborah L.
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Sargent, Anneila I.
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Stapelfeldt, Karl R.
- Myers, Philip C.
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van Dishoeck, Ewine F.
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Blake, Geoffrey A.
- Koerner, David W.
Abstract
We present maps of 1.5 deg^2 of the Serpens dark cloud at 24, 70, and 160 μm observed with the Spitzer Space Telescope MIPS camera. We describe the observations and briefly discuss the data processing carried out by the c2d team on these data. More than 2400 compact sources have been extracted at 24 μm, nearly 100 at 70 μm, and four at 160 μm. We estimate completeness limits for our 24 μm survey from Monte Carlo tests with artificial sources inserted into the Spitzer maps. We compare source counts, colors, and magnitudes in the Serpens cloud to two reference data sets: a 0.50 deg^2 set on a low-extinction region near the dark cloud, and a 5.3 deg^2 subset of the SWIRE ELAIS N1 data that was processed through our pipeline. These results show that there is an easily identifiable population of young stellar object candidates in the Serpens cloud that is not present in either of the reference data sets. We also show a comparison of visual extinction and cool dust emission illustrating a close correlation between the two and find that the most embedded YSO candidates are located in the areas of highest visual extinction.
Additional Information
© 2007 American Astronomical Society. Received 2007 February 3; accepted 2007 March 16. Support for this work, part of the Spitzer Legacy Science Program, was provided by NASA through contracts 1224608, 1230782, and 1230779 issued by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, under NASA contract 1407. Astrochemistry in Leiden is supported by an NWO Spinoza grant and a NOVA grant. This publication makes use of data products from the Two Micron All Sky Survey, which is a joint project of the University of Massachusetts and the Infrared Processing and Analysis Center/California Institute of Technology, funded by NASA and the National Science Foundation. We also acknowledge extensive use of the SIMBAD database.Attached Files
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- 20009
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- CaltechAUTHORS:20100917-094755422
- NASA
- 1224608
- NASA
- 1230782
- NASA
- 1230779
- NASA/JPL/Caltech
- Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek (NWO)
- Nederlandse Onderzoekschool voor de Astronomie (NOVA)
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2010-09-17Created from EPrint's datestamp field
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- Infrared Processing and Analysis Center (IPAC), Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences