THE GOULD’S BELT DISTANCES SURVEY (GOBELINS). II. DISTANCES AND STRUCTURE TOWARD THE ORION MOLECULAR CLOUDS

By M. Kounkel, L. Hartmann, L. Loinard, G. Ortiz-Léon, A. Mioduszewski, Luis F. Rodríguez, S. Dzib, R. Torres, G. Pech, P. Galli and 5 more. Astrophysical Journal, 2016

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We present the results of the Gould’s Belt Distances Survey of young star-forming regions toward the Orion Molecular Cloud Complex. We detected 36 young stellar objects (YSOs) with the Very Large Baseline Array, 27 of which have been observed in at least three epochs over the course of two years. At least half of these YSOs belong to multiple systems. We obtained parallax and proper motions toward these stars to study the structure and kinematics of the Complex. We measured a distance of 388 ± 5 pc toward the Orion Nebula Cluster, 428 ± 10 pc toward the southern portion L1641, 388 ± 10 pc toward NGC 2068, and roughly ∼420 pc toward NGC 2024. Finally, we observed a strong degree of plasma radio scattering toward λ Ori.

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• The APOGEE-2 Survey of the Orion Star-forming Complex. II. Six-dimensional Structure (2018, methodology): “However those conclusions have been questioned by Da Rio et al. (2016), Fang et al. (2017), and Kounkel et al. (2017a).”
• Kinematics in Young Star Clusters and Associations with Gaia DR2 (2018, methodology): “• Our analysis of the Gaia data places the ONC at a distance of 403+7−6 pc, which is slightly closer than the estimate of 414±7 pc from Menten et al. (2007), but farther than 388±5 pc found by Kounkel et al. (2017), both based on Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) data.”