HST view of YSOs in the LMC Virtual Observatory Resource

Authors
  1. Vaidya K.
  2. Chu Y.-H.
  3. Gruendl R.A.
  4. Chen C.-H.R.
  5. Looney L.W.
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    CDS
Abstract

We have used archival Hubble Space Telecope (HST) H{alpha} images to study the immediate environments of massive and intermediate-mass young stellar object (YSO) candidates in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC). The sample of YSO candidates, taken from Gruendl & Chu (2009, Cat. J/ApJS/184/172), was selected based on Spitzer IRAC and MIPS observations of the entire LMC and complementary ground-based optical and near-infrared observations. We found HST H{alpha} images for 99 YSO candidates in the LMC, of which 82 appear to be genuine YSOs. More than 95% of the YSOs are found to be associated with molecular clouds. YSOs are seen in three different kinds of environments in the H{alpha} images: in dark clouds, inside or on the tip of bright-rimmed dust pillars, and in small HII regions. Comparisons of spectral energy distributions for YSOs in these three different kinds of environments suggest that YSOs in dark clouds are the youngest, YSOs with small HII regions are the most evolved, and YSOs in bright-rimmed dust pillars span a range of intermediate evolutionary stages. This rough evolutionary sequence is substantiated by the presence of silicate absorption features in the Spitzer Infrared Spectrograph spectra of some YSOs in dark clouds and in bright-rimmed dust pillars, but not those of YSOs in small HII regions. We present a discussion on triggered star formation for YSOs in bright-rimmed dust pillars or in dark clouds adjacent to HII regions. As many as 50% of the YSOs are resolved into multiple sources in high-resolution HST images.

Keywords
  1. h-ii-regions
  2. magellanic-clouds
  3. molecular-clouds
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2009ApJ...707.1417V
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2012-02-01T11:09:38Z
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