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Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12386/29303
Title: Dense cores and star formation in the giant molecular cloud Vela C★★★
Authors: MASSI, Fabrizio 
Weiss, A.
ELIA, Davide Quintino 
Csengeri, T.
SCHISANO, EUGENIO 
GIANNINI, Teresa 
Hill, T.
LORENZETTI, Dario
Menten, K.
OLMI, LUCA 
Schuller, F.
STRAFELLA, FRANCESCO
De Luca, M.
Motte, F.
Wyrowski, F.
Issue Date: 2019
Journal: ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS 
Number: 628
First Page: A110
Abstract: Context. The Vela Molecular Ridge is one of the nearest (700 pc) giant molecular cloud (GMC) complexes hosting intermediate-mass (up to early B, late O stars) star formation, and is located in the outer Galaxy, inside the Galactic plane. Vela C is one of the GMCs making up the Vela Molecular Ridge, and exhibits both sub-regions of robust and sub-regions of more quiescent star formation activity, with both low- and intermediate(high)-mass star formation in progress. <BR /> Aims: We aim to study the individual and global properties of dense dust cores in Vela C, and aim to search for spatial variations in these properties which could be related to different environmental properties and/or evolutionary stages in the various sub-regions of Vela C. <BR /> Methods: We mapped the submillimetre (345 GHz) emission from vela C with LABOCA (beam size 19''2, spatial resolution 0.07 pc at 700 pc) at the APEX telescope. We used the clump-finding algorithm CuTEx to identify the compact submillimetre sources. We also used SIMBA (250 GHz) observations, and Herschel and WISE ancillary data. The association with WISE red sources allowed the protostellar and starless cores to be separated, whereas the Herschel dataset allowed the dust temperature to be derived for a fraction of cores. The protostellar and starless core mass functions (CMFs) were constructed following two different approaches, achieving a mass completeness limit of 3.7 M<SUB>☉</SUB>. <BR /> Results: We retrieved 549 submillimetre cores, 316 of which are starless and mostly gravitationally bound (therefore prestellar in nature). Both the protostellar and the starless CMFs are consistent with the shape of a Salpeter initial mass function in the high-mass part of the distribution. Clustering of cores at scales of 1-6 pc is also found, hinting at fractionation of magnetised, turbulent gas. <P />Tables 1 and 2 and the reduced LABOCA image are only available at the CDS via anonymous ftp to <A href="http://cdsarc.u-strasbg.fr">http://cdsarc.u-strasbg.fr</A> (ftp://130.79.128.5) or via <A href="http://cdsarc.u-strasbg.fr/viz-bin/qcat?J/A+A/628/A110">http://cdsarc.u-strasbg.fr/viz-bin/qcat?J/A+A/628/A110</A>Based on observations made with APEX telescope in Llano de Chajnantor (Chile) under ESO programme ID 089.C-0744 and MPIfR programme ID M-087.F-0043-2011.Herschel is an ESA space observatory with science instruments provided by European-led Principal Investigator consortia and with important participation from NASA.
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12386/29303
URL: https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2019/08/aa35047-19/aa35047-19.html
ISSN: 0004-6361
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201935047
Bibcode ADS: 2019A&A...628A.110M
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