Published March 10, 2015 | Version Published + Submitted
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The Gould's Belt Very Large Array Survey. IV. The Taurus-Auriga Complex

  • 1. ROR icon Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy
  • 2. ROR icon National Autonomous University of Mexico
  • 3. ROR icon King Abdulaziz University
  • 4. ROR icon National Radio Astronomy Observatory
  • 5. ROR icon University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
  • 6. ROR icon University of Guadalajara
  • 7. ROR icon California Institute of Technology
  • 8. ROR icon The University of Texas at Austin
  • 9. ROR icon Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory
  • 10. ROR icon Leiden University

Abstract

We present a multi-epoch radio study of the Taurus-Auriga star-forming complex made with the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array at frequencies of 4.5 GHz and 7.5 GHz. We detect a total of 610 sources, 59 of which are related to young stellar objects (YSOs) and 18 to field stars. The properties of 56% of the young stars are compatible with non-thermal radio emission. We also show that the radio emission of more evolved YSOs tends to be more non-thermal in origin and, in general, that their radio properties are compatible with those found in other star-forming regions. By comparing our results with previously reported X-ray observations, we notice that YSOs in Taurus-Auriga follow a Güdel-Benz relation with κ = 0.03, as we previously suggested for other regions of star formation. In general, YSOs in Taurus-Auriga and in all the previous studied regions seem to follow this relation with a dispersion of ~1 dex. Finally, we propose that most of the remaining sources are related with extragalactic objects but provide a list of 46 unidentified radio sources whose radio properties are compatible with a YSO nature.

Additional Information

© 2015 American Astronomical Society. Received 2014 November 17; accepted 2014 December 19; published 2015 March 10. L.L., L.F.R., G.N.O., G.P., and J.L.R. acknowledge the financial support of DGAPA, UNAM, and CONACyT, México. N.J.E. was supported in part by NSF Grant AST-1109116 to the University of Texas at Austin. The National Radio Astronomy Observatory is operated by Associated Universities Inc. under cooperative agreement with the National Science Foundation. CASA is developed by an international consortium of scientists based at the National Radio Astronomical Observatory (NRAO), the European Southern Observatory (ESO), the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ), the CSIRO Australia Telescope National Facility (CSIRO/ATNF), and the Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy (ASTRON) under the guidance of NRAO. This research has made use of the SIMBAD database, operated at CDS, Strasbourg, France.

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DGAPA UNAM and CONACyT (México)
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AST-1109116

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