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AFRICAN RESEARCH NEXUS
SHINING A SPOTLIGHT ON AFRICAN RESEARCH
earth and planetary sciences
Evidence for large grains in the star-forming filament OMC 2/3
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 444, No. 3, Year 2014
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We present a new 3.3 mm continuum map of the Orion Molecular Cloud (OMC) 2/3 region. When paired with previously published maps of 1.2 mm continuum and NH3-derived temperature, we derive the emissivity spectral index of dust emission in this region, tracking its changes across the filament and cores. We find that the median value of the emissivity spectral index is 0.9, much shallower than previous estimates in other nearby molecular clouds. We find no significant difference between the emissivity spectral index of dust in the OMC 2/3 filament and the starless or protostellar cores. Furthermore, the temperature and emissivity spectral index, β, are anticorrelated at the 4σ level. The low values of the emissivity spectral index found in OMC 2/3 can be explained by the presence of millimetre-sized dust grains in the dense regions of the filaments to which these maps are most sensitive. Alternatively, a shallow dust emissivity spectral index may indicate non-power-law spectral energy distributions, significant free-free emission, or anomalous microwave emission. We discuss the possible implications of millimetre-sized dust grains compared to the alternatives. © 2014 The Authors.
Authors & Co-Authors
Mason, Brian S.
United States, Charlottesville
National Radio Astronomy Observatory
Di Francesco, James D.
Canada, Ottawa
National Research Council Canada
Canada, Victoria
University of Victoria
Friesen, Rachel K.
United States, Charlottesville
National Radio Astronomy Observatory
Canada, Toronto
University of Toronto
Li, D. H.
China, Beijing
Chinese Academy of Sciences
United States, Boulder
Space Science Institute
Sadavoy, Sarah I.
Germany, Heidelberg
Max Planck Institute for Astronomy
Statistics
Citations: 36
Authors: 5
Affiliations: 8
Identifiers
Doi:
10.1093/mnras/stu1596
ISSN:
00358711
Research Areas
Environmental