2004A&A...420..533T -
Astronomy and Astrophysics, volume 420, 533-546 (2004/6-3)
Very cold cores in the Taurus Molecular Ring as seen by ISO.
TOTH L.V., HAAS M., LEMKE D., MATTILA K. and ONISHI T.
Abstract (from CDS):
Three prominent cold objects of the
Taurus Molecular Ring (
TMR) were revealed by our ISOPHOT 200 µm map of the south-eastern part of the
Heiles Cloud 2 (
HCL2) cloud complex. One corresponds to the cyanopolyyne peak region of the
TMC-1 ridge, (
TMC-1CP), one is the
HCL2-E cloud, and one which we call
HCL2-ES lies south of TMC-1. The 200/100µm colour temperatures and column densities of the three ISOPHOT cold clouds are ≃12K, and 1.2±0.7x10
22cm
–2 respectively, as calculated from ISO/IRAS surface brightnesses. As Nagoya-4m C
18O (1-0) spectra show, these are dense molecular clouds with N(H)>10
21cm
–2 column density peaks. The ISOPHOT 200µm surface brightness is well correlated with the C
18O line intensity (corr. coef.≃70%). The large dust particle emissivity is found to be increased in the prototypical very dense core TMC-1CP. As the low linewidths (Δv=0.8±0.2 km/s) indicate, the level of turbulent energy density is 50% lower in these three clouds than in other clouds of HCL2. Dense cores were identified inside the C
18O clouds by NH
3 measurements with the Effelsberg-100 m telescope and Nobeyama-45m H
13CO
+ data. The density of the dense cores is n≥1.1x10
5cm
–3, and their kinetic temperatures are ≲10K, in good agreement with the FIR results. The total molecular gas mass in the gravitationally bound cloud cores of TMC-1CP and HCL2-E is about 21 M
☉ and 8 M
☉ respectively. The cores, TMC-1CPb and HCL2-Eab are associated with 3 low mass YSO candidate 2MASS point sources, while 35 other low mass YSO candidates are seen elsewhere in TMR south, which we consider as evidence for ongoing low mass star formation.
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Journal keyword(s):
ISM: clouds - dust, extinction - ISM: individual objects: Taurus clouds - ISM: molecules - ISM: structure - stars: formation
Nomenclature:
Table 3: [THL2004] IRAS HHMMm+DDMM N=2. Table 4: [THL2004] 2MASS TMRSNN (Nos TMRS1 to TMRS25). Table 5: [THL2004] HCL-2Eab N=1, [THL2004] HCL-2Ec N=1, [THL2004] TMC-1 CPa (Nos CPa, CPb, CPc).
CDS comments:
In table 4, the 2MASS cross-identifications are incorrect.
Simbad objects:
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