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29 March 2024
 
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The BLAST Survey of the Vela Molecular Cloud: Physical Properties of the Dense Cores in Vela-D
Luca Olmi ; Peter A. R. Ade ; Daniel Angles-Alcazar ; James J. Bock ; Edward L. Chapin ; Massimo De Luca ; Mark J. Devlin ; Simon Dicker ; Davide Elia ; Giovanni G. Fazio ; Teresa Giannini ; Matthew Griffin ; Joshua O. Gundersen ; Mark Halpern ; Peter C. Hargrave ; David H. Hughes ; Jeff Klein ; Dario Lorenzetti ; Massimo Marengo ; Gaelen Marsden ; Peter G. Martin ; Fabrizio Massi ; Philip Mauskopf ; Calvin B. Netterfield ; Guillaume Patanchon ; Marie Rex ; Alberto Salama ; Douglas Scott ; Christopher Semisch ; Howard A. Smith ; Francesco Strafella ; Nicholas Thomas ; Matthew D. P. Truch ; Carole Tucker ; Gregory S. Tucker ; Marco P. Viero ; Donald V. Wiebe ;
Date 7 Oct 2009
AbstractThe Balloon-borne Large-Aperture Submillimeter Telescope (BLAST) carried out a 250, 350 and 500 micron survey of the galactic plane encompassing the Vela Molecular Ridge, with the primary goal of identifying the coldest, dense cores possibly associated with the earliest stages of star formation. Here we present the results from observations of the Vela-D region, covering about 4 square degrees, in which we find 141 BLAST cores. We exploit existing data taken with the Spitzer MIPS, IRAC and SEST-SIMBA instruments to constrain their (single-temperature) spectral energy distributions, assuming a dust emissivity index beta = 2.0. This combination of data allows us to determine the temperature, luminosity and mass of each BLAST core, and also enables us to separate starless from proto-stellar sources. We also analyze the effects that the uncertainties on the derived physical parameters of the individual sources have on the overall physical properties of starless and proto-stellar cores, and we find that there appear to be a smooth transition from the pre- to the proto-stellar phase. In particular, for proto-stellar cores we find a correlation between the MIPS24 flux, associated with the central protostar, and the temperature of the dust envelope. We also find that the core mass function of the Vela-D cores has a slope consistent with other similar (sub)millimeter surveys.
Source arXiv, 0910.1097
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