A Catalog of Background Stars Reddened by Dust in the Taurus Dark Clouds
S. S. Shenoy, D. C. B. Whittet, J. A. Ives, and D. M. Watson

TL;DR
This study identifies and catalogs background stars reddened by dust in the Taurus Dark Clouds using multi-wavelength infrared data, providing valuable resources for interstellar medium research.
Contribution
It presents a new catalog of 248 background stars with measured extinctions and identifies a previously unrecognized young stellar object in the region.
Findings
Catalog of 248 reddened background stars with extinction estimates
Identification of a new candidate young stellar object IRAS 04262+2735
Effective discrimination between field stars and YSOs using infrared data
Abstract
Normal field stars located behind dense clouds are a valuable resource in interstellar astrophysics, as they provide continua in which to study phenomena such as gas-phase and solid-state absorption features, interstellar extinction and polarization. This paper reports the results of a search for highly reddened stars behind the Taurus Dark Cloud complex. We use the Two Micron All Sky Survey (2MASS) Point Source Catalog to survey a 50 sq deg area of the cloud to a limiting magnitude of K = 10.0. Photometry in the 1.2-2.2 micron passbands from 2MASS is combined with photometry at longer infrared wavelengths (3.6-12 micron) from the Spitzer Space Telescope and the Infrared Astronomical Satellite to provide effective discrimination between reddened field stars and young stellar objects (YSOs) embedded in the cloud. Our final catalog contains 248 confirmed or probable background field…
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