The Stellar Population And Origin Of The Mysterious High-Latitude Star Forming Cloud CG12
Konstantin Getman (Penn State University) , E. Feigelson (PSU), W. Lawson (UNSW-ADFA), P. Broos (PSU), G. Garmire (PSU)
The mysterious high galactic latitude cometary globule (CG) CG12 has been observed with the ACIS detector on board the Chandra X-ray Observatory. We detect 128 X-ray sources, of which a half are likely young stars formed within the globule's head. This new population of >=50 T-Tauri stars and one new embedded protostar is far larger than the previously reported few intermediate-mass and two protostellar members of the cloud. Most of the newly discovered stars have masses 0.2-0.7Msun, and 9-15