Konkoly optical catalog of young stars for the Gaia Photometric Science Alerts. Issue Volume 14:Issue S345(2019) (August 2018)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Varga-Verebélyi, E.; Kun, M.; Szegedi-Elek, E.; Ábrahám, P.; Varga, J.; Kiss, Cs.; Kóspál, Á.; Marton, G.; Szabados, L.
• Editors: Elmegreen, Bruce G.; Tóth, L. Viktor; Güdel, Manuel
• Is Part Of: Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union. Volume 14:Issue S345(2019)
• Page Start: 378
• Page End: 379
• Publication Date: 2018-08
• Subjects: catalogs, -- stars: pre–main-sequence, -- techniques: miscellaneous; Astronomy -- Congresses; Astronomy -- Periodicals; 520
• DOI: 10.1017/S1743921319002825
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1743-9213

Abstract

Abstract: Our aim is to present a new and so far most complete catalog of optically selected young stars. The basis of this work is an extensive literature search for young stars in all the known nearby (< 2 kpc) star forming regions, included in the Handbook of Star Forming Regions [4, 5], and in 67 additional catalogs. We collected data on known young, pre-main-sequence stars detected in optical bands. The catalog contains the celestial coordinates, object names, names of the enclosing star forming region, identification methods, distances, and other information (e.g., references, binarity) for 15208 young stellar objects. It is already in use by the Gaia Photometric Science Alerts Team to identify variable young stars in the Gaia data. Our catalog was cross-correlated with the Gaia DR2 and we obtained flux and distance estimations for 86% of the stars.