Scott J. Kenyon et al. 1998 The Astronomical Journal 115 2491 doi:10.1086/300368
Scott J. Kenyon1, David I. Brown2, Christopher A. Tout3 and Perry Berlind4
Show affiliationsThis paper describes the first optical spectroscopic survey of Class I sources (also known as embedded sources and protostars) in the Taurus-Auriga dark cloud. We detect 10 of the 24 known Class I sources in the cloud at 5500–9000 Å. All detected Class I sources have strong Hα emission; most also have strong [O I] and [S II] emission. These data—together with high-quality optical spectra of T Tauri stars in the Taurus-Auriga cloud—demonstrate that forbidden emission lines are stronger and more common in Class I sources than in T Tauri stars. Our results also provide a clear discriminant in the frequency of forbidden line emission between weak-emission and classical T Tauri stars. In addition to strong emission lines, three Class I sources have prominent TiO absorption bands. The M-type central stars of these sources mingle with optically visible T Tauri stars in the H-R diagram and lie somewhat below both the birth line for spherical accretion and the deuterium burning sequence for disk accretion.
ISM: jets and outflows; stars: formation; stars: pre-main sequence
Issue 6 (1998 June)
Received 1997 December 4, accepted for publication 1998 February 24
Scott J. Kenyon et al. 1998 The Astronomical Journal 115 2491
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