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A&A
Volume 619, November 2018
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Article Number | A52 | |
Number of page(s) | 24 | |
Section | Interstellar and circumstellar matter | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201833364 | |
Published online | 31 October 2018 |
A catalogue of dense cores and young stellar objects in the Lupus complex based on Herschel★, Gould Belt Survey observations★★
1
INAF – Istituto di Astrofisica e Planetologia Spaziali,
via Fosso del Cavaliere 100,
00133
Roma,
Italy
e-mail: milena.benedettini@inaf.it
2
Laboratoire AIM, CEA/DSM-CNRS-Université Paris Diderot, IRFU/Service d’Astrophysique, Saclay,
91191 Gif-sur-Yvette,
France
3
Jeremiah Horrocks Institute, University of Central Lancashire,
Preston PR1 2HE,
UK
4
Instituto Radioastronomía Milimétrica,
Av. Divina Pastora 7, Nucleo Central,
18012
Granada,
Spain
5
National Research Council Canada,
5071 West Saanich Road,
Victoria,
BC V9E 2E7,
Canada
6
Department of Physics, Graduate School of Science, Nagoya University, Furo-cho, Chikusa-ku,
Nagoya
464-8602,
Japan
7
Instituto de Astrofísica e Ciências do Espaço, Universidade do Porto, CAUP, Rua das Estrelas,
PT4150-762
Porto,
Portugal
8
Italian ALMA Regional Centre, INAF – Istituto di Radioastronomia,
via P. Gobetti 101,
40129,
Bologna,
Italy
9
I. Physikalisches Institut, Universität zu Köln,
Zulpicher Str. 77,
50939 Köln,
Germany
Received:
4
May
2018
Accepted:
13
August
2018
Context. How the diffuse medium of molecular clouds condenses in dense cores and how many of these cores will evolve in protostars is still a poorly understood step of the star formation process. Much progress is being made in this field, thanks to the extensive imaging of star-forming regions carried out with the Herschel Space Observatory.
Aims. The Herschel Gould Belt Survey key project mapped the bulk of nearby star-forming molecular clouds in five far-infrared bands with the aim of compiling complete census of prestellar cores and young, embedded protostars. From the complete sample of prestellar cores, we aim at defining the core mass function and studying its relationship with the stellar initial mass function. Young stellar objects (YSOs) with a residual circumstellar envelope are also detected.
Methods. In this paper, we present the catalogue of the dense cores and YSOs/protostars extracted from the Herschel maps of the Lupus I, III, and IV molecular clouds. The physical properties of the detected objects were derived by fitting their spectral energy distributions.
Results. A total of 532 dense cores, out of which 103 are presumably prestellar in nature, and 38 YSOs/protostars have been detected in the three clouds. Almost all the prestellar cores are associated with filaments against only about one third of the unbound cores and YSOs/protostars. Prestellar core candidates are found even in filaments that are on average thermally subcritical and over a background column density lower than that measured in other star-forming regions so far. The core mass function of the prestellar cores peaks between 0.2 and 0.3 M⊙, and it is compatible with the log-normal shape found in other regions. Herschel data reveal several, previously undetected, protostars and new candidates of Class 0 and Class II with transitional disks. We estimate the evolutionary status of the YSOs/protostars using two independent indicators: the α index and the fitting of the spectral energy distribution from near- to far-infrared wavelengths. For 70% of the objects, the evolutionary stages derived with the two methods are in agreement.
Conclusions. Lupus is confirmed to be a very low-mass star-forming region, in terms of both the prestellar condensations and the diffuse medium. Noticeably, in the Lupus clouds we have found star formation activity associated with interstellar medium at low column density, usually quiescent in other (more massive) star-forming regions.
Key words: ISM: clouds / ISM: individual objects: Lupus complex (except planetary nebulae) / stars: formation / submillimeter: ISM
Herschel is an ESA space observatory with science instruments provided by European-led Principal Investigator consortia and with important participation from NASA.
Full Tables A.1 and A.2 are only available at the CDS via anonymous ftp to cdsarc.u-strasbg.fr (130.79.128.5) or via http://cdsarc.u-strasbg.fr/viz-bin/qcat?J/A+A/619/A52
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