Physical properties of Southern infrared dark clouds

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Table 1:

Comparison of the 1.2 mm emission and 8 $\mu$ m absorption techniques for deriving masses and column densities.
Properties	1.2 mm	8 $\mu$ m
Distance dependence^a	+	+
Resolution	24''	3''
Sensitive to lower column	-	+
density filigree structure
Temperature dependence	+	-
Background and foreground	not	necessary
estimation	necessary
Sensitive to column	+	-
densities $\gg 10^{23}$ cm^-2

^a Only for masses.

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