Description
To study how the structure of the envelopes of young stellar objects (YSOs) evolve, we carried out a deep JHK'-band imaging survey of the M17 star-forming region using a near-infrared camera and the Infrared Camera and Spectrograph with adaptive optics mounted on the Subaru Telescope. In this survey, we found 51 dark silhouettes against bright near-infrared nebula emissions as background lights. They are regarded as envelopes associated with YSOs due to their size and association with the YSOs. We derived size, morphology, extinction, and mass for each silhouette envelope.
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