THE STELLAR POPULATIONS WITHIN THE RHO-OPH CLOUD CORES

Authors
STROM KM KEPNER J STROM SE
Citation
Km. Strom et al., THE STELLAR POPULATIONS WITHIN THE RHO-OPH CLOUD CORES, Astrophysics and space science, 217(1-2), 1994, pp. 223-224
Citations number
5
Categorie Soggetti
Astronomy & Astrophysics
Journal title
Astrophysics and space science → ACNP
ISSN journal
0004640X
Volume
217
Issue
1-2
Year of publication
1994
Pages
223 - 224
Database
ISI
SICI code
0004-640X(1994)217:1-2<223:TSPWTR>2.0.ZU;2-H
Abstract
We have obtained infrared colors and limiting magnitudes from 1.25 - 4 .8 mum for a sample of 26 of the cm continuum radio sources located in the core of the rho Oph molecular cloud. Their colors demonstrate tha t the majority of the sources appear to be heavily reddened objects su rrounded by circumstellar accretion disks. In these cases the radio em ission most likely diagnoses accretion driven energetic outflow phenom ena: either ionized winds or possibly synchrotron emission from shocke d gas associated with stellar jets.