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Orion revisited : III. The Orion Belt population

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Date
13/02/2017
Author
Kubiak, K.
Alves, J.
Bouy, H.
Sarro, L. M.
Ascenso, J.
Burkert, A.
Forbrich, J.
Großschedl, J.
Hacar, A.
Hasenberger, B.
Lombardi, M.
Meingast, S.
Köhler, R.
Teixeira, P. S.
Keywords
Stars: formation
Stars: late-type
Stars: pre-main sequence
ISM: clouds
Globular clusters: general
QB Astronomy
3rd-DAS
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Abstract
Aims: This paper continues our study of the foreground population to the Orion molecular clouds. The goal is to characterize the foreground population north of NGC 1981 and to investigate the star formation history in the large Orion star-forming region. We focus on a region covering about 25 square degrees, centered on the ɛ Orion is supergiant (HD 37128, B0 Ia) and covering the Orion Belt asterism. Methods: We used a combination of optical (SDSS) and near-infrared (2MASS) data, informed by X-ray (XMM-Newton) and mid-infrared (WISE) data, to construct a suite of color-color and color-magnitude diagrams for all available sources. We then applied anew statistical multiband technique to isolate a previously unknown stellar population in this region. Results: We identify a rich and well-defined stellar population in the surveyed region that has about 2000 objects that are mostly M stars. We infer the age for this new population to be at least 5 Myr and likely 10 Myr and estimate a total of about 2500 members, assuming a normal IMF. This new population,which we call the Orion Belt population, is essentially extinction-free,disk-free, and its spatial distribution is roughly centered near ɛ Ori, although substructure is clearly present. Conclusions: The Orion Belt population is likely the low-mass counterpart to the Ori OB Ib subgroup. Although our results do not rule out Blaauw's sequential star formation scenario for Orion, we argue that the recently proposed blue streams scenario provides a better framework on which one can explain the Orion star formation region as a whole. We speculate that the Orion Belt population could represent the evolved counterpart of an Orion nebula-like cluster.
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Kubiak , K , Alves , J , Bouy , H , Sarro , L M , Ascenso , J , Burkert , A , Forbrich , J , Großschedl , J , Hacar , A , Hasenberger , B , Lombardi , M , Meingast , S , Köhler , R & Teixeira , P S 2017 , ' Orion revisited : III. The Orion Belt population ' , Astronomy & Astrophysics , vol. 598 , A124 . https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201628920
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Astronomy & Astrophysics
Status
Peer reviewed
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201628920
ISSN
0004-6361
Type
Journal article
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© ESO, 2017. This work has been made available online in accordance with the publisher’s policies. This is the author created, accepted version manuscript following peer review and may differ slightly from the final published version. The final published version of this work is available at https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201628920
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J. Alves acknowledges travel support from the ESAC Faculty council. H. Bouy is funded by the Ramón y Cajal fellowship program number RYC-2009-04497.
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http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2017A%26A...598A.124K
https://arxiv.org/abs/1609.04948
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/10023/12319

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