The JCMT Gould Belt Survey: First results from the Corona Australis molecular cloud and evidence of variable dust emissivity indices in the Coronet region
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| author | Pattle, Kate Bresnahan, David Ward-Thompson, Derek Kirk, Helen Kirk, Jason M. Berry, David S. Broekhoven-Fiene, Hannah Hatchell, Jenny Jenness, Tim Johnstone, Doug Mottram, J. C. Duarte-Cabral, Ana Di Francesco, James Hogerheijde, M. R. Bastien, Pierre Butner, Harold Chen, Michael Chrysostomou, Antonio Coudé, Simon Currie, Malcolm J. Davis, C. J. Drabek-Maunder, Emily Fich, M. Fiege, J. Friberg, Per Friesen, Rachel Fuller, Gary A. Graves, Sarah Greaves, Jane Holland, Wayne Joncas, G. Knee, L. B. G. Mairs, Steve Marsh, Ken Matthews, Brenda C. Moriarty-Schieven, Gerald Mowat, C. Rawlings, Jonathan Retter, B. Richer, John Robertson, D. Rosolowsky, E. Sadavoy, Sarah Thomas, H. Tothill, N. Viti, Serena White, G. J. Wouterloot, J. Yates, J. Zhu, M. |
| author_facet | Pattle, Kate Bresnahan, David Ward-Thompson, Derek Kirk, Helen Kirk, Jason M. Berry, David S. Broekhoven-Fiene, Hannah Hatchell, Jenny Jenness, Tim Johnstone, Doug Mottram, J. C. Duarte-Cabral, Ana Di Francesco, James Hogerheijde, M. R. Bastien, Pierre Butner, Harold Chen, Michael Chrysostomou, Antonio Coudé, Simon Currie, Malcolm J. Davis, C. J. Drabek-Maunder, Emily Fich, M. Fiege, J. Friberg, Per Friesen, Rachel Fuller, Gary A. Graves, Sarah Greaves, Jane Holland, Wayne Joncas, G. Knee, L. B. G. Mairs, Steve Marsh, Ken Matthews, Brenda C. Moriarty-Schieven, Gerald Mowat, C. Rawlings, Jonathan Retter, B. Richer, John Robertson, D. Rosolowsky, E. Sadavoy, Sarah Thomas, H. Tothill, N. Viti, Serena White, G. J. Wouterloot, J. Yates, J. Zhu, M. |
| contents | We present 450$μ$m and 850$μ$m James Clerk Maxwell Telescope (JCMT) observations of the Corona Australis (CrA) molecular cloud taken as part of the JCMT Gould Belt Legacy Survey (GBLS). We present a catalogue of 39 starless and protostellar sources, for which we determine source temperatures and masses using SCUBA-2 450$μ$m/850$μ$m flux density ratios for sources with reliable 450$μ$m detections, and compare these to values determined using temperatures measured by the Herschel Gould Belt Survey (HGBS). In keeping with previous studies, we find that SCUBA-2 preferentially detects high-volume-density starless cores, which are most likely to be prestellar (gravitationally bound). We do not observe any anti-correlation between temperature and volume density in the starless cores in our sample. Finally, we combine our SCUBA-2 and Herschel data to perform SED fitting from 160-850$μ$m across the central Coronet region, thereby measuring dust temperature $T$, dust emissivity index $β$ and column density $N({\rm H}_2)$ across the Coronet. We find that $β$ varies across the Coronet, particularly measuring $β= 1.55 \pm 0.35$ in the colder starless SMM-6 clump to the north of the B star R CrA. This relatively low value of $β$ is suggestive of the presence of large dust grains in SMM-6, even when considering the effects of $T-β$ fitting degeneracy and $^{12}$CO contamination of SCUBA-2 850$μ$m data on the measured $β$ values. |
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| spellingShingle | The JCMT Gould Belt Survey: First results from the Corona Australis molecular cloud and evidence of variable dust emissivity indices in the Coronet region Pattle, Kate Bresnahan, David Ward-Thompson, Derek Kirk, Helen Kirk, Jason M. Berry, David S. Broekhoven-Fiene, Hannah Hatchell, Jenny Jenness, Tim Johnstone, Doug Mottram, J. C. Duarte-Cabral, Ana Di Francesco, James Hogerheijde, M. R. Bastien, Pierre Butner, Harold Chen, Michael Chrysostomou, Antonio Coudé, Simon Currie, Malcolm J. Davis, C. J. Drabek-Maunder, Emily Fich, M. Fiege, J. Friberg, Per Friesen, Rachel Fuller, Gary A. Graves, Sarah Greaves, Jane Holland, Wayne Joncas, G. Knee, L. B. G. Mairs, Steve Marsh, Ken Matthews, Brenda C. Moriarty-Schieven, Gerald Mowat, C. Rawlings, Jonathan Retter, B. Richer, John Robertson, D. Rosolowsky, E. Sadavoy, Sarah Thomas, H. Tothill, N. Viti, Serena White, G. J. Wouterloot, J. Yates, J. Zhu, M. Astrophysics of Galaxies We present 450$μ$m and 850$μ$m James Clerk Maxwell Telescope (JCMT) observations of the Corona Australis (CrA) molecular cloud taken as part of the JCMT Gould Belt Legacy Survey (GBLS). We present a catalogue of 39 starless and protostellar sources, for which we determine source temperatures and masses using SCUBA-2 450$μ$m/850$μ$m flux density ratios for sources with reliable 450$μ$m detections, and compare these to values determined using temperatures measured by the Herschel Gould Belt Survey (HGBS). In keeping with previous studies, we find that SCUBA-2 preferentially detects high-volume-density starless cores, which are most likely to be prestellar (gravitationally bound). We do not observe any anti-correlation between temperature and volume density in the starless cores in our sample. Finally, we combine our SCUBA-2 and Herschel data to perform SED fitting from 160-850$μ$m across the central Coronet region, thereby measuring dust temperature $T$, dust emissivity index $β$ and column density $N({\rm H}_2)$ across the Coronet. We find that $β$ varies across the Coronet, particularly measuring $β= 1.55 \pm 0.35$ in the colder starless SMM-6 clump to the north of the B star R CrA. This relatively low value of $β$ is suggestive of the presence of large dust grains in SMM-6, even when considering the effects of $T-β$ fitting degeneracy and $^{12}$CO contamination of SCUBA-2 850$μ$m data on the measured $β$ values. |
| title | The JCMT Gould Belt Survey: First results from the Corona Australis molecular cloud and evidence of variable dust emissivity indices in the Coronet region |
| topic | Astrophysics of Galaxies |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.11564 |