Spitzer/Chandra YSOs in Serpens cloud core

We observed, using Spitzer's IRAC and MIPS instruments, in six wavelength bands from 3 to 70um, to detect thermal emission from circumstellar disks and protostellar envelopes and to classify stars using color-color diagrams and SEDs. These data are combined with Chandra observations to examine the effects of circumstellar disks on stellar X-ray properties.

Young diskless stars were also identified from their increased X-ray emission. We have identified 138 YSOs in Serpens: 22 Class 0/I, 16 flat-spectrum, 62 Class II, 17 transition disk, and 21 Class III stars; 60 of these exhibit X-ray emission.