VizieR Online Data Catalog: Taurus Spitzer survey: new candidate members (Rebull+, 2010)

Padgett et al., 2008, http://irsa.ipac.caltech.edu/data/SPITZER/Taurus/ and 2010 (in preparation) present a comprehensive discussion of the Spitzer data acquisition, reduction, and bandmerging to the 2MASS data. In summary, we conducted the observations using Infrared Array Camera (IRAC; 3.6, 4.5, 5.8, and 8um) and Multi-band Imaging Photometer (MIPS for Spitzer; 24, 70, and 160um) in two epochs to enable removal of asteroids from the final point-source catalog. The observations were spread over three observing programs and three years, 2005-2007.

We discussed merging the 2MASS and Spitzer data. We also need to match our catalog to the other Taurus surveys (CFHT, SDSS, XEST survey - Gudel et al. 2007, Cat. J/A+A/468/353).

We obtained follow-up spectroscopy for ~75% of the candidate YSOs discussed in this paper. Data were obtained over six runs between 2007 and 2009 at Keck and the Palomar 200". Most of the >~200 spectra are low-resolution optical, obtained with the Double Spectrograph at Palomar (2008 November 30-December 3) or LRIS at Keck (2007 February). Many spectra were taken in the IR with Triplespec at Palomar (2008 November 21-24 and 2008 December 21) or NIRSPEC at Keck (2007 December and 2008 February). The IR spectra will be discussed in a forthcoming paper; the optical spectra are discussed here.

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