NOAO > Observing Info > Approved Programs > 2009B-0035
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PI: John Stauffer, Caltech 314-6, stauffer@ipac.caltech.edu
Address: Infrared Processing and Analysis Center, 1200 E. California Blvd., Pasadena, CA stauffer@ipac.caltec, USA
CoI: Maria Morales, LAEFF
CoI: Luisa Rebull, IPAC
CoI: Kevin Covey, CfA
CoI: Lori Allen, NOAO
CoI: John Carpenter, Caltech
CoI: David Ciardi, NExScI
CoI: Barb Whitney, Space Sciences Institute
CoI: Kenneth Wood, University of St. Andrews
CoI: Peter Plavchan, NExScI
Title: Synoptic Monitoring of Star Forming Cores
Abstract: We propose to use ANDICAM on the CTIO-1.3m telescope to obtain synoptic monitoring at J-band of >150 very young, embedded Class I and II young-stellar objects in two star-forming cores over 20 night periods. These data will be used to complement time-series photometry we will be obtaining with IRAC on the Spitzer Space telescope as part of a recently approved "Exploration Science" program to be carried out during the Spitzer warm mission. The goal of this program is to use the multi-wavelength photometric monitoring data to determine the physical mechanisms responsible for the near-IR and mid-IR variability of these YSOs, and therefore, shed new light on the processes involved in accreting matter onto the youngest stars (beyond the realm of steady- state accretion from axially symmetric disks).
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