YSO search toward the boundary of the Central Molecular Zone with near-infrared polarimetry
arXiv:1406.2860 · doi:10.1088/0067-0049/213/2/22
Abstract
We have carried out near-infrared polarimetry toward the boundary of the Central Molecular Zone, in the field of (-1.4 deg -0.3 deg and 1.0 deg 2.9 deg, 0.1 deg), using the near-infrared polarimetric camera SIRPOL on the 1.4 m Infrared Survey Facility telescope. We have selected 112 intrinsically polarized sources on the basis of the estimate of interstellar polarization on Stokes planes. The selected sources are brighter than mag and have polarimetric uncertainty . Ten of these distinctive polarized sources are fit well with spectral energy distributions of young stellar objects when using the photometry in the archive of the Spitzer Space Telescope mid-infrared data. However, many sources have spectral energy distributions of normal stars suffering heavy interstellar extinction; these might be stars behind dark clouds. Due to the small number of distinctive polarized sources and candidates of young stellar object, we cannot judge if there is a decline of them outside the Central Molecular Zone. Many of massive candidates of young stellar object in the literature have only small intrinsic polarization. This might suggest that their masses are 4-15 M, whose intrinsic polarization has been expected to be small.
arXiv comment48 pages, 27 figures, ApJS accepted
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