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        A Herschel study of YSO evolutionary stages and formation timelines in two fields of the Hi-GAL survey

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        Elia, D.
        Schisano, E.
        Molinari, S.
        Robitaille, T.
        Anglés-Alcázar, D.
        Bally, J.
        Battersby, C.
        Benedettini, M.
        Billot, N.
        Calzoletti, L.
        Di Giorgio, A. M.
        Faustini, F.
        Li, J. Z.
        Martin, P.
        Morgan, L.
        Motte, F.
        Mottram, J.C.
        Natoli, P.
        Olmi, L.
        Paladini, R.
        Piacentini, F.
        Pestalozzi, M.
        Pezzuto, S.
        Polychroni, D.
        Smith, M.
        Strafella, F.
        Stringfellow, G. S.
        Testi, L.
        Thompson, M.A.
        Traficante, A.
        Veneziani, M.
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        2299/6189
        Abstract
        We present a first study of the star-forming compact dust condensations revealed by Herschel in the two 2 \times 2 \degr Galactic Plane fields centered at [l;b] = [30\degr; 0 \degr] and [l;b] = [59\degr; 0 \degr], respectively, and observed during the Science Demonstration Phase for the Herschel infrared Galactic Plane survey (Hi-GAL) Key-Project. Compact source catalogs extracted for the two fields in the five Hi-GAL bands (70, 160, 250, 350 and 500 $\mu$m) were merged based on simple criteria of positional association and spectral energy distribution (SED) consistency into a final catalog which contains only coherent SEDs with counterparts in at least three adjacent Herschel bands. These final source lists contain 528 entries for the l = 30\degr field, and 444 entries for the l = 59\degr field. The SED coverage has been augmented with ancillary data at 24 $\mu$m and 1.1 mm. SED modeling for the subset of 318 and 101 sources (in the two fields, respectively) for which the distance is known was carried out using both a structured star/disk/envelope radiative transfer model and a simple isothermal grey-body. Global parameters like mass, luminosity, temperature and dust properties have been estimated. The Lbol/Menv ratio spans four orders of magnitudes from values compatible with the pre-protostellar phase to embedded massive zero-age main sequence stars. Sources in the l = 59\degr field have on average lower L/M, possibly outlining an overall earlier evolutionary stage with respect to the sources in the l = 30\degr field. Many of these cores are actively forming high-mass stars, although the estimated core surface densities appear to be an order of magnitude below the 1 g cm$^{-2}$ critical threshold for high-mass star formation.
        Publication date
        2010-05-11
        Published in
        Astronomy and Astrophysics
        Published version
        https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201014651
        Other links
        http://hdl.handle.net/2299/6189
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