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MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY
Volume 329, Issue 2, Pages 257-276Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-8711.2002.04969.x
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stars : formation; ISM : dust; infrared : ISM
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ISO data taken with the long-wavelength imaging photo-polarimeter ISOPHOT are presented of 18 pre-stellar cores at three far-infrared wavelengths, 90, 170 and 200 mum. Most of the cores are detected clearly at 170 and,200 mum, but only one is detected strongly at 90 mum, indicating that mostly they are very cold, with typical temperatures of only similar to10-20 K Colour temperature images are constructed for each of the cores. Most of the cores are seen either to be isothermal, or to have associated temperature gradients from the core centres to their edges, with all except one being cooler at the centre. We compare the data with previous ISOCAM absorption data, and calculate the energy balance for those cores in common between the two samples. We find that the energy radiated by each core in the far-infrared is similar to that absorbed at shorter wavelengths. Hence there is no evidence for a central heating source in any, of the cores - even those for which previous evidence for core contraction exists. This is all consistent with external, heating of the cores by the local interstellar radiation field, confirming their pre-stellar nature.
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