Dr Jill Rathborne (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics)Infrared Dark Clouds: precursors to star clusters - Dr Jill Rathborne Colloquium |
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The Australia Telescope National Facility Colloquium | |||
15:30-16:30 Wed 30 Jul 2008 | |||
ATNF Marsfield Lecture Theatre |
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AbstractInfrared Dark Clouds (IRDCs) are cold, dense molecular clouds identified as extinction features against the bright mid-IR Galactic background. Our recent 1.2 mm continuum emission survey of IRDCs reveal many compact (< 0.5 pc) and massive (10-2100 Msun) cores within them. These pre-stellar cores hold the key to understanding IRDCs and
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