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dc.contributor.authorYoung, AK
dc.contributor.authorBate, MR
dc.contributor.authorMowat, CF
dc.contributor.authorHatchell, J
dc.contributor.authorHarries, TJ
dc.date.accessioned2017-12-08T10:28:27Z
dc.date.issued2017-10-13
dc.description.abstractThe first hydrostatic core (FHSC) is the first stable object to form in simulations of star formation. This stage has yet to be observed definitively, although several candidate FHSCs have been reported. We have produced synthetic spectral energy distributions (SEDs) from 3D hydrodynamical simulations of pre-stellar cores undergoing gravitational collapse for a variety of initial conditions. Variations in the initial rotation rate, radius and mass lead to differences in the location of the SED peak and far-infrared flux. Secondly, we attempt to fit the SEDs of five FHSC candidates from the literature and five newly identified FHSC candidates located in the Serpens South molecular cloud with simulated SEDs. The most promising FHSC candidates are fitted by a limited number of model SEDs with consistent properties, which suggests the SED can be useful for placing constraints on the age and rotation rate of the source. The sources we consider most likely to be in FHSC phase are B1-bN, CB17-MMS, Aqu-MM1 and Serpens South candidate K242. We were unable to fit SerpS-MM22, Per-Bolo 58 and Chamaeleon-MMS1 with reasonable parameters, which indicates that they are likely to be more evolved.en_GB
dc.description.sponsorshipThis work was supported by the European Research Council under the European Commission’s Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013 Grant Agreement No. 339248). The calculations discussed in this paper were performed on the University of Exeter Supercomputer, a DiRAC Facility jointly funded by Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC), the Large Facilities Capital Fund of Department for Business Innovation & Skills (BIS), and the University of Exeter. This work used the DiRAC Complexity system, operated by the University of Leicester IT Services, which forms part of the STFC DiRAC HPC Facility (www.dirac.ac.uk). This equipment is funded by BIS National E-Infrastructure capital grant ST/K000373/1 and STFC DiRAC Operations grant ST/K0003259/1. DiRAC is part of the National E-Infrastructure. The JCMT has historically been operated by the Joint Astronomy Centre on behalf of the Science and Technology Facilities Council of the United Kingdom, the National Research Council of Canada and the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research. Additional funds for the construction of SCUBA-2 were provided by the Canada Foundation for Innovation. Chris Mowat is supported by an STFC studentship. This research has made use of NASA’s Astrophysics Data System. This research used the services of the Canadian Advanced Network for Astronomy Research (CANFAR), which is supported by CANARIE, Compute Canada, University of Victoria, the National Research Council of Canada, and the Canadian Space Agency. This research used the facilities of the Canadian Astronomy Data Centre operated by the National Research Council of Canada with the support of the Canadian Space Agency. Starlink software (Currie et al. 2014) is supported by the East Asian Observatory. MATPLOTLIB is a 2D graphics package used for Python for application development, interactive scripting, and publication-quality image generation across user interfaces and operating systems. This research made use of APLPY (Robitaille & Bressert 2012), an open-source plotting package for Python hosted at http://aplpy.github.com. Herschel is an ESA space observatory with science instruments provided by European-led principal investigator consortia and with important participation from NASA. This research has made use of data from the Herschel Gould Belt survey (HGBS) project (http://gouldbelt-herschel.cea.fr). The HGBS is a Herschel Key Programme jointly carried out by SPIRE Specialist Astronomy Group 3 (SAG 3), scientists of several institutes in the PACS Consortium (CEA Saclay, INAF-IFSI Rome and INAF-Arcetri, KU Leuven, MPIA Heidelberg), and scientists of the Herschel Science Center (HSC).en_GB
dc.identifier.citationVol. 474 (1), pp. 800-823en_GB
dc.identifier.doi10.1093/mnras/stx2669
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10871/30603
dc.language.isoenen_GB
dc.publisherOxford University Press (OUP) / Royal Astronomical Societyen_GB
dc.relation.urlhttp://hdl.handle.net/10871/31126
dc.rights© 2017 The Author(s) Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Royal Astronomical Societyen_GB
dc.titleWhat can the SEDs of first hydrostatic core candidates reveal about their nature? (article)en_GB
dc.typeArticleen_GB
dc.date.available2017-12-08T10:28:27Z
dc.descriptionThis is the final version of the article. Available from OUP via the DOI in this record.en_GB
dc.descriptionThe dataset associated with this article is located in ORE at: http://hdl.handle.net/10871/31126
dc.identifier.journalMonthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Societyen_GB


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