Gould's Belt: Star Formation in the Solar Neighborhood

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May 2006

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Spitzer Proposal ID #30574

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We propose a Legacy program to obtain observations with IRAC and MIPS of molecular clouds in Gould's Belt. These will provide the crucial data shortward of 200 microns to match the data from large projects with SCUBA-2 on the JCMT (450 and 850 microns) and SPIRE (200 to 500 microns) on Herschel. Together with the clouds surveyed by the Cores to Disks (c2d) Spitzer Legacy program and clouds studied by GTO/GO programs, these observations will complete the census of star formation regions within 500 pc. All Spitzer data, including previous GTO/GO data, will be processed through the c2d pipeline to produce a uniform, complete, and unbiased data base for studies of local star formation. Scientific goals include the following. We will determine which of the many dense cores detected by SCUBA-2 have embedded stars and which are starless. We will compile the statistics of objects in different evolutionary stages to obtain timescales for these stages, a fundamental check on theory. We will use the large sample to control for effects of enviroment on star formation. We will assess the fraction of star formation in distributed and clustered modes, including the number in groups of various sizes. Finally, we will combine the MIPS data with the submillimeter data to study the physical conditions in extended structures with a goal of understanding the formation of dense cores.

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