H₂ column density (left) and dust temperature (right) distributions within the G323.46-0.08. The black contours indicate the ¹³CO (J = 2−1) integrated intensity in areas, where T_mb is higher than 3σ (3 K), The contour levels start from 3 K km s⁻¹ and with a step of 9 K km s⁻¹. The velocity interval of the integration is from −70 to −63 km s⁻¹. The white, rose, and black diamonds are Herschel clumps, and represent different evolution stages of starless cores, prestellar, and protostellar, respectively (Elia et al. 2017). The white crosses are ATLASGAL 870 µm clumps (Urquhart et al. 2018). The red circles show the HII regions identified by Anderson et al. (2014).