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A13CO (J = 1-0) Search for Small Molecular Clouds toward the Chamaeleon-Musca Dark Cloud Complex

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Akira Mizuno, Takahiro Hayakawa, Nobuyuki Yamaguchi, Shigeo Kato, Atsushi Hara, Norikazu Mizuno, Yoshinori Yonekura2, Toshikazu Onishi, Akiko Kawamura, Kengo Tachihara, Ayano Obayashi, Ke-Cheng Xiao1, Hideo Ogawa1 and Yasuo Fukui1

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We have completed a 13CO (J=1-0) survey for molecular clouds toward the Chamaeleon-Musca Dark Cloud Complex, covering an ~16° × 17° area with the NANTEN millimeter-wave telescope. The major result is a discovery of 25 small dense clouds widely distributed over ~11° × 13° ( ~28 × 33 pc at ~140 pc), in addition to the four previously known large dark clouds. The small clouds show a good spatial correlation with the 33 isolated X-ray-emitting T Tauri stars (TTSs), and most ( ~70%) of the 33 TTSs located within 4 pc of the small clouds' boundaries are likely formed in the small clouds. It is argued that the average density, gtrsim103 cm−3, and mass, ~20 M_{{\odot}}, of the small clouds are large enough to form stars in them. The apparent lack of the associated molecular gas for the remaining TTSs is plausibly explained as a result of cloud dissipation due to the outflow activity of the X-ray TTSs. Based on the present findings, we conclude that the X-ray TTSs were formed in the small dense clouds and that it is not necessary to invoke a runaway TTS hypothesis.


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ISM: clouds; ISM: molecules; ISM: individual (Chamaeleon-Musca Dark Cloud Complex); stars: formation


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Issue 1 (1998 November 1)

Received 1998 March 20, accepted for publication 1998 July 31

Published 1998 September 17



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