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ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS
Volume 518, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
EDP SCIENCES S A
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201014689
Keywords
ISM: individual objects: Aquila rift complex; stars: formation
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- CSA (Canada)
- NAOC (China)
- CEA (France)
- ASI (Italy)
- MCINN (Spain)
- SNSB (Sweden)
- STFC (UK)
- NASA (USA)
- EC [MRTN-CT-2006-035890]
- BMVIT (Austria)
- ESA-PRODEX (Belgium)
- CNES (France)
- DLR (Germany)
- CICT (Spain)
- MCT (Spain)
- CNRS (France)
- STFC [ST/G002533/1, PP/D000963/1] Funding Source: UKRI
- Science and Technology Facilities Council [PP/D000963/1, PP/E001181/1, ST/G002533/1] Funding Source: researchfish
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The origin and possible universality of the stellar initial mass function (IMF) is a major issue in astrophysics. One of the main objectives of the Herschel Gould Belt Survey is to clarify the link between the prestellar core mass function (CMF) and the IMF. We present and discuss the core mass function derived from Herschel data for the large population of prestellar cores discovered with SPIRE and PACS in the Aquila rift cloud complex at d similar to 260 pc. We detect a total of 541 starless cores in the entire similar to 11 deg(2) area of the field imaged at 70-500 mu m with SPIRE/PACS. Most of these cores appear to be gravitationally bound, and thus prestellar in nature. Our Herschel results confirm that the shape of the prestellar CMF resembles the stellar IMF, with much higher quality statistics than earlier submillimeter continuum ground-based surveys.
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