2006/11/16 by S. Schnee, J. Kauffmann, A. Goodman +1 · 1 citation
Physics and Astronomy · #Astronomy and Astrophysical Research #Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies #Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena #astro-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.1086/511054
published as Astrophys.J.657:838-848,2007 · 23 pages including 9 figures, accepted by ApJ
arxiv created 2006/11/16 · openalex publication_date 2007/03/06 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/01
We have mapped the central 10' × 10' of the dense core TMC-1C at 450, 850, and 1200 μm using SCUBA on the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope and MAMBO on the IRAM 30 m telescope. We show that although one can, in principle, use images at these wavelengths to map the emissivity spectral index, temperature, and column density independently, noise and calibration errors would have to be less than ~2% to accurately derive these three quantities from a set of three emission maps. Because our data are not this free of errors, we use our emission maps to fit the dust temperature and column density assuming a constant value of the emissivity spectral index and explore the effects of noise on the derived physical parameters. We find that the derived extinction values for TMC-1C are large for a starless core (~80 mag A V ) and the derived temperatures are low (~6 K) in the densest regions of the core, using our derived value of β = 1.8.