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| Paper: |
Young Stellar Objects in the Large Magellanic Cloud |
| Volume: |
491, Fifty Years of Wide Field Studies in the Southern Hemisphere: Resolved Stellar Populations in the Galactic Bulge and the Magellanic Clouds |
| Page: |
297 |
| Authors: |
Chu, Y.-H. |
| Abstract: |
Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory (CTIO) has played vital roles
in complementing space-based observatories to maximize their scientific
yields. In the past three decades, I have used CTIO observations to aid
in the interpretation of X-ray, ultraviolet, gamma-ray, and infrared
observations of the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC). In this presentation,
I will show how CTIO observations made a difference in the analysis of
Spitzer Space Telescope observations of young stellar objects
(YSOs) in the LMC. With a higher angular resolution, CCD images taken
with the CTIO Blanco 4m telescope can resolve nearby galaxies, small
clusters, and compact HII regions that appear to be point sources in
Spitzer images; furthermore, ISPI J and Ks images taken with
the Blanco telescope reveal near-IR excesses that can be used to confirm
YSO candidates identified from their mid-IR excesses. In the near future,
CTIO's Dark Energy Camera will survey the LMC, and the data can be used
to search for pre-main sequence stars, extending the study of on-going
star formation to lower stellar masses. |
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