Projeto Observacional para 2007B - SO2007B-024

Autor: Gabriel A.P. Franco
Instituição: UFMG
e-mail: franco@fisica.ufmg.br

Co-autores:
Felipe de Oliveira Alves
Josep Miguel Girat Medina
Rosario Lopez Hermoso
Maria Teresa Beltran Sorolla

Título: Dissecting Molecular Cores in the Pipe Nebula

Resumo: The Pipe Nebula is one of the most massive clouds situated in the solar neighborhood. This cloud seems to provide a particularly suitable laboratory in which to study the physical processes experienced by the interstellar clouds during the phase of contraction to form low mass stars. Images with the OSIRIS f/7 camera are requested of ten fields in the region of the Pipe nebula's C18O Core 12 with the three J, H, and Ks filters to characterize the stars in this line-of-sight: distinguish the background, foreground stars and young stellar objects associated with Core 12, as well as measure the visual extinction for the background stars.