The WISE Census of Young Stellar Objects in Canis Major

TL;DR

This paper demonstrates how WISE infrared data can be used to identify young stellar objects across large sky areas, focusing on a 100 square degree region in Canis Major as a case study.

Contribution

It introduces a method for using WISE data to find YSOs over the entire sky, expanding beyond previous Spitzer-based cloud-focused searches.

Findings

Identified YSO candidates in the Canis Major region.

Showed WISE's effectiveness for large-scale YSO searches.

Provided a catalog of YSO candidates for follow-up studies.

Abstract

While searches for young stellar objects (YSOs) with the Spitzer Space Telescope focused on known molecular clouds, photometry from the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) can be used to extend the search to the entire sky. As a precursor to more expansive searches, we present results for a 100 square degree region centered on the Canis Major clouds.