Protostars and Planets VI, Heidelberg, July 15-20, 2013

Poster 1S063

A GALEX BASED SURVEY OF THE TAURUS STAR FORMING REGION

Gomez de Castro, Ana Ines (Universidad Complutense de Madrid)
Lopez-Santiago, Javier (Universidad Complutense de Madrid)
Lopez-Martinez, Fatima (Universidad Complutense de Madrid)
Sanchez, Nestor (Universidad Complutense de Madrid)
Sestito, Paola (Universidad Complutense de Madrid)
Armengot, Marcelo (Universidad Complutense de Madrid)
de Castro, Elisa (Universidad Complutense de Madrid)
Cornide, Manuel (Universidad Complutense de Madrid)
Yanez Gestoso, Javier (Universidad Complutense de Madrid)

Abstract:
In this contribution we report the results of our study of 192 fields observed with the GALactic Evolution eXplorer (GALEX) and covering a 10‐degrees‐radius region toward the Taurus Molecular Complex (TMC). The overall distribution of stars is described and compared with the information inferred from infrared maps of the region. For a given field, star counts are affected by both the extinction caused by the molecular cloud and the variation of stellar density with the galactic latitude. We take these effects into account to produce an extinction map of TMC outskirts. We also study the population of UV sources and provide a list of T‐Tauri stars and brown dwarf candidates.

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