NOAO > Observing Info > Approved Programs > 2010B-0343
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PI: john Stauffer, Caltech, stauffer@ipac.caltech.edu
Address: IPAC, 1201 E. California Blvd, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA
CoI: Maria Morales, Caltech
CoI: Luisa Rebull, Caltech
CoI: Lynne Hillenbrand, Caltech
CoI: Lee Hartmann, U. Michigan
Title: Synoptic Monitoring of YSOs in Orion, NGC2264 and Mon R2 with Flamingos and Spitzer
Abstract:
We propose to use Flamingos on the KPNO 2.1m to obtain synoptic
monitoring at J- and Ks-bands of Class I and II young stellar objects in
the Orion Nebula Cluster and in two smaller star-forming cores, over a
10 night period. These data will be used to complement time-series
photometry we will be obtaining simultaneously with IRAC on the Spitzer
Space Telescope. 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. These observations should shed new light on the processes
involved in the formation and evolution of circumstellar (planet-
forming) disks and on the accretion of matter from these disks onto
their "host" stars.
National Optical Astronomy Observatory, 950 North Cherry Avenue, P.O. Box 26732, Tucson, Arizona 85726, Phone: (520) 318-8000, Fax: (520) 318-8360
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