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MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY
Volume 457, Issue 2, Pages 2139-2150Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stv3009
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instrumentation: detectors; stars: formation; stars: protostars; ISM: molecules; submillimetre: ISM
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- National Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
- Science and Technology Facilities Council [ST/K005588/1, ST/L00383X/1, ST/N002687/1, ST/J001627/1, ST/I005072/1] Funding Source: researchfish
- STFC [ST/L00383X/1, ST/J001627/1, ST/K005588/1, ST/N002687/1, ST/I005072/1] Funding Source: UKRI
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Thermal emission from cold dust grains in giant molecular clouds can be used to probe the physical properties, such as density, temperature and emissivity in star-forming regions. We present the Submillimetre Common-User Bolometer Array (SCUBA-2) shared-risk observations at 450 and 850 mu m of the Orion A molecular cloud complex taken at the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope (JCMT). Previous studies showed that molecular emission lines can contribute significantly to the measured fluxes in those continuum bands. We use the Heterodyne Array Receiver Programme (CO)-C-12 J = 3-2 integrated intensity map for Orion A in order to evaluate the molecular line contamination and its effects on the SCUBA-2 maps. With the corrected fluxes, we have obtained a new spectral index alpha map for the thermal emission of dust in the well-known integral-shaped filament. Furthermore, we compare a sample of 33 sources, selected over the Orion A molecular cloud complex for their high (CO)-C-12 J = 3-2 line contamination, to 27 previously identified clumps in OMC 4. This allows us to quantify the effect of line contamination on the ratio of 850-450 mu m flux densities and how it modifies the deduced spectral index of emissivity beta for the dust grains. We also show that at least one Spitzer-identified protostellar core in OMC 5 has a (CO)-C-12 J = 3-2 contamination level of 16 per cent. Furthermore, we find the strongest contamination level (44 per cent) towards a young star with disc near OMC 2. This work is part of the JCMT Gould Belt Legacy Survey.
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