a) Dust temperature map derived from our SPIRE/PACS observations of IC 5146. The resolution corresponds to the 36.9″ HPBW resolution of SPIRE at 500 μm.b) Curvelet component of the column density map of IC 5146 (cf. Fig. 3), in which the areas where the filaments have a mass per unit length higher than half the critical value and are thus likely gravitationally unstable have been highlighted in white. The positions of the 71 YSOs and 45 candidate bound prestellar cores identified with getsources (Men’shchikov et al. 2010) in the Herschel images are overplotted as red stars and blue triangles, respectively. Candidate bound prestellar cores were selected among a larger population of starless cores (see blue triangles in Fig. 3a) on the basis of a comparison of the core masses with local values of the Jeans or Bonnor-Ebert mass (see Sect. 4.1 of Könyves et al. 2010,for details). Note the excellent correspondence between the spatial distribution of the prestellar cores and the supercritical filaments, which agrees with our earlier results in Aquila and Polaris (see Fig. 1 of André et al. 2010).