We present a preliminary analysis of the small-scale structure found in new 70-520 micron continuum maps of the Rosette molecular cloud (RMC), obtained with the SPIRE and PACS instruments of the Herschel Space Observatory. We find 473 clumps within the RMC using a new structure identification algorithm, with sizes up to ~1.0 pc in diameter. A comparison with recent Spitzer maps reveals that 371 clumps are "starless" (without an associated young stellar object), while 102 are "protostellar." Using the respective values of dust temperature, we determine the clumps have masses (M_C) over the range -0.75 <= log (M_C/M_sun) <= 2.50. Linear fits to the high-mass tails of the resulting clump mass spectra (CMS) have slopes that are consistent with those found for high-mass clumps identified in CO emission by other groups.
@article{arxiv.1005.3784,
title = {Small-scale structure in the Rosette molecular cloud revealed by Herschel},
author = {J. Di Francesco and S. Sadavoy and F. Motte and N. Schneider and M. Hennemann and S. Bontemps and T. Csengeri and Z. Balog and A. Zavagno and Ph. Andre and P. Saraceno and M. Griffin and A. Men'shchikov and A. Abergel and J. -P. Baluteau and J. -Ph. Bernard and P. Cox and L. Deharveng and P. Didelon and A. -M. di Giorgio and P. Hargrave and M. Huang and J. Kirk and S. Leeks and J. Z. Li and A. Marston and P. Martin and V. Minier and S. Molinari and G. Olofsson and P. Persi and S. Pezzuto and D. Russeil and M. Sauvage and B. Sibthorpe and L. Spinoglio and L. Testi and D. Teyssier and R. Vavrek and D. Ward-Thompson and G. White and C. Wilson and A. Woodcraft},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1005.3784},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
6 pages, to be published in Astronomy & Astrophysics