The Balloon-borne Large Aperture Submillimeter Telescope (BLAST) 2005: A 4 deg2 Galactic Plane Survey in Vulpecula (ℓ = 59°)

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E. L. Chapin et al. 2008 ApJ 681 428 doi:10.1086/588544

The Balloon-borne Large Aperture Submillimeter Telescope (BLAST) 2005: A 4 deg² Galactic Plane Survey in Vulpecula (ℓ = 59°)

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E. L. Chapin¹, P. A. R. Ade², J. J. Bock^3,4, C. Brunt⁵, M. J. Devlin⁶, S. Dicker⁶, M. Griffin², J. O. Gundersen⁷, M. Halpern¹, P. C. Hargrave², D. H. Hughes⁸, J. Klein⁶, G. Marsden¹, P. G. Martin^9,10, P. Mauskopf², C. B. Netterfield^10,11, L. Olmi^12,13, E. Pascale¹¹, G. Patanchon^1,14, M. Rex⁶, D. Scott¹, C. Semisch⁶, M. D. P. Truch¹⁵, C. Tucker², G. S. Tucker¹⁵, M. P. Viero¹⁰ and D. V. Wiebe¹¹

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¹ Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z1, Canada
² Department of Physics and Astronomy, Cardiff University, Cardiff CF24 3AA, UK
³ Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA 91109-8099
⁴ Observational Cosmology, MS 59-33, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125
⁵ School of Physics, University of Exeter, Exeter EX4 4QL, UK
⁶ Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104
⁷ Department of Physics, University of Miami, Carol Gables, FL 33146
⁸ Instituto Nacional de Astrofísica Óptica y Electrónica (INAOE), 72000 Puebla, Mexico
⁹ Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M5S 3H8, Canada
¹⁰ Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M5S 3H4, Canada
¹¹ Department of Physics, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M5S 1A7, Canada
¹² Istituto di Radioastronomia, I-50125 Florence, Italy
¹³ Physics Department, University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras Campus, San Juan, PR 00931
¹⁴ Laboratoire APC, 75205 Paris, France
¹⁵ Department of Physics, Brown University, Providence, RI 02912

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We present the first results from a new 250, 350, and 500 μm Galactic plane survey taken with the Balloon-borne Large-Aperture Submillimeter Telescope (BLAST) in 2005. This survey's primary goal is to identify and characterize high-mass protostellar objects (HMPOs). The region studied here covers 4 deg² near the open cluster NGC 6823 in the constellation Vulpecula (ℓ = 59°). We find 60 compact sources (<60^'' diameter) detected simultaneously in all three bands. Their SEDs are constrained through BLAST, IRAS, Spitzer MIPS, and MSX photometry, with inferred dust temperatures spanning ~12-40 K assuming a dust emissivity index β = 1.5. The luminosity-to-mass ratio, a distance-independent quantity, spans ~0.2-130 L M⁻¹. Distances are estimated from coincident ¹³CO(1→ 0) velocities combined with a variety of other velocity and morphological data in the literature. In total, 49 sources are associated with a molecular cloud complex encompassing NGC 6823 (distance ~2.3 kpc), 10 objects with the Perseus arm (~8.5 kpc), and one object is probably in the outer Galaxy (~14 kpc). Near NGC 6823, the inferred luminosities and masses of BLAST sources span ~40-10⁴ L and ~15-700 M, respectively. The mass spectrum is compatible with molecular gas masses in other high-mass star-forming regions. Several luminous sources appear to be ultracompact H II regions powered by early B stars. However, many of the objects are cool, massive gravitationally bound clumps with no obvious internal radiation from a protostar, and hence excellent HMPO candidates.

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