Hubble Space Telescope mapping of the Orion Nebula .1. A survey of stars and compact objects

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ODell, CR
Wong, SK
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[1] Dept. of Space Phys. and Astronomy, MS 108, Rice University, Houston, TX 77251
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10.1086/117832
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P1 [天文学];
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We report on a survey of the brightest portions of the Orion Nebula made with the Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 of the Hubble Space Telescope. Fifteen pointings were made, each employing interference filters isolating the principal emission lines of H I, [N II], and [O III] and another isolating an interval similar to the V bandpass. A careful survey of compact objects of stellar and nearly stellar appearance was made and astrometric solutions for individual fields were used to determine positions accurate to about 0.1 ''. 344 stars were measured, down to about V = 22. In addition to structures in several of the previously known Herbig-Haro objects, 145 compact sources that can be classified as proplyds were found. Proplyds are young stars surrounded by circumstellar material which is rendered visible by being in or near an Hn region. In the central region, where detection of proplyds is easiest, almost all of the low-mass pre-main-sequence stars have obvious circumstellar material. The fraction falls as one views areas away from the dominant photoionizing star (T)heta(1)C Ori. Six new dark disk proplyds are found, bringing the total to seven. These are objects showing only in silhouette against the bright background of the H II region. Most of these are elliptical in form, indicating that they are circumstellar disks. In addition to these compact sources, the new images allow detection of numerous large structures previously unreported from ground-based observations. These include shells and shocks apparently related to Kerbig-Haro objects and high velocity outflows from young stellar objects. (C) 1996 American Astronomical Society.
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