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The Relation Between Dust and Gas in the Taurus Molecular Cloud
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 25 November 2011
Abstract
We report a study of the relation between dust and gas over a 100 deg2 area in the Taurus molecular cloud. We compare the H2 column density derived from dust extinction with the CO column density derived from the 12CO and 13CO J = 1 → 0 lines. We derive the visual extinction from reddening determined from 2MASS data. The comparison is done at an angular size of 200′′, corresponding to 0.14 pc at a distance of 140 pc. We find that the relation between visual extinction AV and N(CO) is linear between AV ≃ 3 and 10 mag in the region associated with the B213–L1495 filament. In other regions the linear relation flattens for AV ≳ 4 mag. Accounting for the observed relation between the column density of CO and CO2 ices and AV, we find a linear relationship between the column of carbon monoxide and dust for observed visual extinctions up to the maximum value in our data ≃23 mag.
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- European Astronomical Society Publications Series , Volume 52: Conditions and Impact of Star Formation , 2011 , pp. 157 - 160
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- © EAS, EDP Sciences 2011
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