The James Clerk Maxwell Telescope legacy survey of nearby atar-forming regions in the Gould Belt

Ward-Thompson, Derek ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1140-2761, Di Francesco, J., Hatchell, J., Hogerheijde, M. R., Nutter, David John, Bastien, P., Basu, S., Bonnell, I., Bowey, J., Brunt, C., Buckle, J., Butner, H., Cavanagh, B., Chrysostomou, A., Curtis, E., Davis, C. J., Dent, W. R. F., van Dishoeck, E., Edmunds, Michael Geoffrey, Fich, M., Fiege, J., Fissel, L., Friberg, P., Friesen, R., Frieswijk, W., Fuller, G. A., Gosling, A., Graves, S., Greaves, J. S., Helmich, F., Hills, R. E., Holland, W. S., Houde, M., Jayawardhana, R., Johnstone, D., Joncas, G., Kirk, H., Kirk, Jason M., Knee, L. B. G., Matthews, B., Matthews, H., Matzner, C., Moriarty-Schieven, G. H., Naylor, D., Padman, R., Plume, R., Rawlings, J. M. C., Redman, R. O., Reid, M., Richer, J. S., Shipman, R., Simpson, R. J., Spaans, M., Stamatelos, Dimitrios, Tsamis, Y. G., Viti, S., Weferling, B., White, G. J., Whitworth, Anthony Peter ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1178-5486, Wouterloot, J., Yates, J. and Zhu, M. 2007. The James Clerk Maxwell Telescope legacy survey of nearby atar-forming regions in the Gould Belt. Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific 119 (858) , pp. 855-870. 10.1086/521277

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Abstract

This paper describes a James Clerk Maxwell Telescope (JCMT) legacy survey that has been awarded roughly 500 hr 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 catalogs, over almost 700 deg2 of sky. The resulting images will yield the first catalog of prestellar and protostellar sources selected by submillimeter continuum emission, and should increase the number of known sources by more than an order of magnitude. We will also obtain with the array receiver HARP (Heterodyne Array Receiver Program) CO maps, 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 submillimeter. The images and source catalogs will be a powerful reference set for astronomers, providing a detailed legacy archive for future telescopes, including ALMA, Herschel, and JWST.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Physics and Astronomy
Subjects:	Q Science > QB Astronomy
Publisher:	Astronomical Society of the Pacific
ISSN:	0004-6280
Last Modified:	21 Oct 2022 09:15
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/35735

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