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	1 Introduction
	2 Distribution of IR sources
	3 A search for IR-excess stars
	4 Statistics of candidate NGC 6530 members
	5 The nature of IR-excess sources
	6 Discussion
	7 Summary and conclusions
	References
	Online Material
	Appendix A: Robustness of results
	Appendix B: Evaluation of the expected number of spurious cross-identifications
	Appendix C: Extinction map of NGC 6530

	List of tables
	List of figures