ionized emission, and radiation pressure).

Selection and distribution of embedded population in AFGL 5157 {#subsec:phot1}
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Infrared photometric data have been used to study the embedded YSOs in AFGL 5157. Using the 2MASS, UKIDSS-GPS, and GLIMPSE360 photometric catalogs, we have utilized the dereddened color-color space (\[K$-$\[3.6\]\]$_{0}$ and \[\[3.6\]$-$\[4.5\]\]$_{0}$) and the color-magnitude space (H$-$K/K) to identify the YSOs. The photometric magnitudes (at 3.6 and 4.5 $\mu$m) were obtained from the Glimpse360 highly reliable catalog. We selected only those sources that have photometric magnitude error of 0.2 and less in the 3.6 and 4.5 $\mu$m bands. We also utilized the photometric HK data from the UKIDSS GPS tenth archival data release (UKIDSSDR10plus) catalog and the 2MASS. Using the conditions given in @lucas08 and @dewangan15, only reliable UKIDSS GPS photometric data were downloaded in this work. 2MASS H and K photometric data were also obtained for bright sources that were saturated in the GPS catalog. We considered only those 2MASS sources that have photometric magnitude error of 0.1 and less in each band.

Figure \[fig9\]a displays the dereddened color-color plot (\[K$-$\[3.6\]\]$_{0}$ and \[\[3.6\]$-$\[4.5\]\]$_{0}$) of point-like sources. The dereddened colors were computed using the photometric magnitudes of sources at 1–5 $\mu$m and the color 