The Near-IR to Submillimeter Opacity Ratio toward Low-mass Star-forming Cores

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The submillimeter opacity is a prominent source of uncertainty in mass estimates and in determination of the physical structure of low-mass star-forming cores. As part of a larger effort with the Cores to Disk Spitzer Legacy team (c2d) to better constrain the dust opacity in these dense cores, we have directly compared deep near-IR observations from HST NICMOS and the NTT with Spitzer Space Telescope mid-IR and SCUBA submillimeter observations of the Class 0 protostellar core B335 and starless core L694-2. We develop a new method to constrain the dust opacity at 850 and 450 microns vs. 2.2 microns that accounts for the variations of density and temperature along the stellar lines-of-sight. The opacity ratio is used to constrain a new dust model (Pontoppidan et al.) appropriate for dense, low-mass cores and the new dust model is used to update the physical model of B335.

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