Multiwavelength study of the NGC 281 region

Abstract

We present a multiwavelength study of the NGC 281 complex, which contains the young cluster IC 1590 at the center, using deep wide-field optical UB VIc photometry, slitless spectroscopy along with archival data sets in the near-infrared (NIR) and X-ray regions. The extent of IC 1590 is estimated to be ∼ 6.5 pc. The cluster region shows a relatively small amount of differential reddening. The majority of the identified young stellar objects (YSOs) are low-mass PMS stars having age < 1-2Myr and mass 0.5-3.5M ocir. The slope (Γ) of the mass function for IC 1590, in the mass range 2