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The Spitzer project is just part of a larger effort to understand the
Taurus Molecular Clouds. Related projects include:
- The XMM Project:
Star Formation in the Taurus Molecular Cloud (P.I.: Manuel Guedel)
- The XMM-Newton X-ray survey of the Taurus Molecular Cloud is an
exceptionally large project to systematically investigate the high-energy
properties of young stellar objects in this nearest star-forming region.
It is accompanied by optical and near-infrared surveys of the same area.
The total X-ray exposure time is more than 200 hours if archival exposures
are added. The surveyed areas were specifically selected so as to
contribute to a sample of single and binary T Tauri stars, protostars (~19
included), brown dwarfs (BD; ~13 included), and protostellar jets +
Herbig-Haro objects (~36 included). For weakly absorbed stars, this survey
goes deeper by 1-2 orders of magnitude than previous
ROSAT soft X-ray surveys of TMC (Neuhauser et al. 1995, Stelzer &
Neuhauser 2001); for embedded protostars, it enters uncharted
territory for TMC given XMM-Newton's unprecedented high sensitivity to
hard photons.
- Canada-French-Hawaii Telescope (CFHT) team (P.I.: Catherine Dougados)
- This team has obtained very deep Halpha, R, and I band surveys from
CFH12K. A MEGACAM optical survey of 20 deg^2 has also been approved (PI
Bouvier), and a more sensitive follow-up near-infrared (WIRCAM) survey is
being planned. These surveys will for the first time characterize all
stellar objects in TMC down to I = 24 mag, providing the indispensable
means to identify nearly every X-ray detected object.
- Sloan Digital Sky Survey Team (P.I.: Gillian Knapp)
- The SDSS Taurus team has obtained SDSS
photometry and
spectroscopy of
regions of the TMC.
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