Computer Science
Scientific paper
Nov 1999
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PhD Thesis, DESPA, Observatoire de Paris, 1999.
Computer Science
Scientific paper
This thesis consists in a study of molecular clouds, essentially of the point of view of the interstellar environment, but also of the one of the star formation. The original method to estimate extinction presented here is based on adaptive star counts as well as on a wavelet decomposition. For the first time, an extinction map of the whole sky is proposed (USNO-PMM optical data). Access to very large field maps offers the opportunity to analyze the interstellar matter distribution in various environments. A first result is that the contained mass in regions for which AV > 1 would not exceed half of the total cloud mass. Using DENIS data, it becomes possible to probe dense regions of clouds. For instance, star counts in the Chamaeleon complex show cores which were not resolved before. Moreover, the selection of stars with a strong infrared excess yields about fifty T Tauri candidates. From their luminosity function, I derived the average lifetime of circumstellar disc of low--mass stars: ~4cdot 106 years. It is difficult to understand the relation between extinction and molecular emission, but it appears clearly that molecular emission is a bad estimator of the column density for low extinction area. Actually, thresholds exist in the CO detection and I conclude that photodissociation, density and cloud geometry have important consequences on the CO emission when AV < 2. Investigation of the relation between extinction and far--infrared emission in Polaris leads to a four times larger emissivity in cold areas than in hot areas. This result explains the low temperatures in this cloud and implies severe restrictions concerning the use of far--infrared fluxes as an extinction estimator.
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