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A. Babcock, Wm. B. Weaver (Monterey Institute for Research in Astronomy)
Three degrees north of the Orion Nebula is a group of 15 B stars including Sigma Orionis. Kiso objective prism surveys have detected H-alpha emission-line objects in the area. There are about 100 X-ray sources within one degree of Sigma Ori.
A very deep 1976 CTIO Curtis Schmidt objective prism plate taken under excellent conditions of the area has permitted us to search for fainter classical T Tauri stars associated with this cluster. We have discovered 60 H-alpha emission stars in the area to a limiting magnitude of about 17. Most of these stars are new additions to the growing list of PMS objects identified in this very dense, very young cluster.
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