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28 March 2024
 
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The Aquila prestellar core population revealed by Herschel
V. Könyves ; Ph. André ; A. Men'shchikov ; N. Schneider ; D. Arzoumanian ; S. Bontemps ; M. Attard ; F. Motte ; P. Didelon ; A. Maury ; A. Abergel ; B. Ali ; J.-P. Baluteau ; J.-Ph. Bernard ; L. Cambrésy ; P. Cox ; J. Di Francesco ; A.M. di Giorgio ; M.J. Griffin ; P. Hargrave ; M. Huang ; J. Kirk ; J. Z. Li ; P. Martin ; V. Minier ; S. Molinari ; G. Olofsson ; S. Pezzuto ; D. Russeil ; H. Roussel ; P. Saraceno ; M. Sauvage ; B. Sibthorpe ; L. Spinoglio ; L. Testi ; D. Ward-Thompson ; G. White ; C.D. Wilson ; A. Woodcraft ; A. Zavagno ;
Date 17 May 2010
AbstractThe origin and possible universality of the stellar initial mass function (IMF) is a major issue in astrophysics. One of the main objectives of the Herschel Gould Belt Survey is to clarify the link between the prestellar core mass function (CMF) and the IMF. We present and discuss the core mass function derived from Herschel data for the large population of prestellar cores discovered with SPIRE and PACS in the Aquila Rift cloud complex at d ~ 260 pc. We detect a total of 541 starless cores in the entire ~11 deg^2 area of the field imaged at 70-500 micron with SPIRE/PACS. Most of these cores appear to be gravitationally bound, and thus prestellar in nature. Our Herschel results confirm that the shape of the prestellar CMF resembles the stellar IMF, with much higher quality statistics than earlier submillimeter continuum ground-based surveys.
Source arXiv, 1005.2981
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