Published October 1985 | Version v1
Journal article

JHKL photometry of three Herbig-Haro jet sources and a nebulous T Tauri star

  • 1. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
  • 2. Computer Sciences Corp., Baltimore, MD
  • 3. Naval Observatory, Flagstaff, AZ

Description

Infrared sources have been detected at the positions of the Herbig-Haro jet sources HH 30, DG Tau B, and Haro 6-5 B in the Taurus dark cloud complex. The colors of these Herbig-Haro jet sources in the 1-4 micron wavelength range are comparable to those of the dustiest T Tauri stars, while the K magnitudes corrected for likely interstellar extinction are actually somewhat fainter than those oftypical T Tauri stars in this region. These observations are consistent with the view that these Herbig-Haro jet sources are low-mass premain-sequence stars. The nebulous T Tauri star Haro 6-5 was also observed and found to show both a large infrared excess and an intrinsic-polarization of about 3 percent in visible light. Thus this star seems to resemble HL Tau and DG Tau, which have been suggested as examples of young stars with circumstellar disks. 17 references

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
Astron. J.
Journal Volume
90
Series
Astron. J.
Journal Page Range
2074-2076
ISSN
0004-6256
CODEN
ANJOA