Bibcode
Tapia, M.; Persi, P.
Referencia bibliográfica
Handbook of Star Forming Regions, Volume II: The Southern Sky ASP Monograph Publications, Vol. 5. Edited by Bo Reipurth, p.449
Fecha de publicación:
12
2008
Número de citas
3
Número de citas referidas
3
Descripción
GM 24 is a compact nebulous object immersed in the low-brightness HII
region RCW 126. It is associated with a warm and dense CO cloud at whose
centre a deeply embedded (A_V = 55) massive cluster of more than one
hundred members is located. The most luminous young stellar object of
the cluster, Irs 3 (= IRAS 17136-3617), radiates most of its energy in
the mid- and far-infrared and ionizes a compact HII region. The
kinematic distance, derived from the radial velocities of CO and
hydrogen recombination lines, is d=2.0 kpc. The physical properties of
the complex, derived from the available observations, are presented.