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詹姆斯·克拉克·麦克斯韦望远镜对古尔德带附近恒星形成区的遗留巡天

The James Clerk Maxwell Telescope Legacy Survey of Nearby Star-forming Regions in the Gould Belt

D. Ward-Thompson, J. Di Francesco, J. Hatchell, M. R. Hogerheijde, P. Bastien, S. Basu, I. Bonnell, J. Bowey, C. Brunt, J. Buckle, H. Butner, B. Cavanagh, A. Ch… 展开作者

D. Ward-Thompson, J. Di Francesco, J. Hatchell, M. R. Hogerheijde, P. Bastien, S. Basu, I. Bonnell, J. Bowey, C. Brunt, J. Buckle, H. Butner, B. Cavanagh, A. Chrysostomou, E. Curtis, C. J. Davis, W. R. F. Dent, E. van Dishoeck, M. G. Edmunds, M. Fich, J. Fiege, L. Fissel, P. Friberg, R. Friesen, W. Frieswijk, G. A. Fuller, A. Gosling, S. Graves, J. S. Greaves, F. Helmich, R. E. Hills, W. S. Holland, M. Houde, R. Jayawardhana, D. Johnstone, G. Joncas, H. Kirk, J. M. Kirk, L. B. G. Knee, B. Matthews, H. Matthews, C. Matzner, G. H. Moriarty-Schieven, D. Naylor, D. Nutter, R. Padman, R. Plume, J. M. C. Rawlings, R. O. Redman, M. Reid, J. S. Richer, R. Shipman, R. J. Simpson, M. Spaans, D. Stamatellos, Y. Tsanis, S. Viti, B. Weferling, G. J. White, A. P. Whitworth, J. Wouterloot, J. Yates, M. Zhu

摘要:

本文介绍了詹姆斯克拉克麦克斯韦望远镜(JCMT)的遗产调查,已被授予约500小时的观测时间将于2007年至2009年进行。在这次调查中,我们将使用SCUBA-2(亚毫米波普通用户测辐射热仪阵列2)绘制几乎所有已知的低质量和中等质量恒星形成区域,这些区域在0.5 kpc以内,可以从JCMT访问。这些地点大多与古尔德带有关。从这些观测中,我们将产生太阳附近恒星形成的通量限制快照,提供近700平方度天空的图像遗产,以及点源和扩展源目录。由此产生的图像将产生通过亚毫米连续发射选择的星前和原恒星源的第一个目录,并将使已知源的数量增加一个数量级以上。我们还将获得CO地图与阵列接收器HARP(外差阵列接收器计划),在三个CO同位素,一个大的典型样本的星前和原恒星源。然后,我们将用SCUBA-2偏振计(POL-2)绘制最亮的100个光源,产生第一组统计上有意义的亚毫米级偏振图。这些图像和源目录将成为天文学家强大的参考集,为未来的望远镜提供详细的遗产档案,包括ALMA,Herschel和JWST。

英文摘要:

This paper describes a James Clerk Maxwell Telescope (JCMT) legacy survey that has been awarded roughly 500 hrs of observing time to be carried out from 2007 to 2009. In this survey we will map with SCUBA-2 (Submillimetre Common User Bolometer Array 2) almost all of the well-known low-mass and intermediate-mass star-forming regions within 0.5 kpc that are accessible from the JCMT. Most of these locations are associated with the Gould Belt. From these observations we will produce a flux-limited snapshot of star formation near the Sun, providing a legacy of images, as well as point-source and extended-source catalogues, over almost 700 square degrees of sky. The resulting images will yield the first catalogue of prestellar and protostellar sources selected by submillimetre continuum emission, and should increase the number of known sources by more than an order of magnitude. We will also obtain CO maps with the array receiver HARP (Heterodyne Array Receiver Programme), in three CO isotopologues, of a large typical sample of prestellar and protostellar sources. We will then map the brightest hundred sources with the SCUBA-2 polarimeter (POL-2), producing the first statistically significant set of polarization maps in the submillimetre. The images and source catalogues will be a powerful reference set for astronomers, providing a detailed legacy archive for future telescopes, including ALMA, Herschel and JWST.

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