The James Clerk Maxwell Telescope Legacy Survey of Nearby Star‐forming Regions in the Gould Belt

By D. Ward-Thompson, J. di Francesco, J. Hatchell, M. Hogerheijde, D. Nutter, P. Bastien, S. Basu, Ian A. Bonnell, J. Bowey, C. Brunt and 52 more. 2007

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This paper describes a James Clerk Maxwell Telescope (JCMT) legacy survey that has been awarded roughly 500 hr of observing time to be carried out from 2007 to 2009. In this survey, we will map with SCUBA‐2 (Submillimetre Common‐User Bolometer Array 2) almost all of the well‐known low‐mass and intermediate‐mass star‐forming regions within 0.5 kpc that are accessible from the JCMT. Most of these locations are associated with the Gould Belt. From these observations, we will produce a flux‐limited snapshot of star formation near the Sun, providing a legacy of images, as well as point‐source and extended‐source catalogs, over almost 700 deg2 of sky. The resulting images will yield the first catalog of prestellar and protostellar sources selected by submillimeter continuum emission, and should increase the number of known sources by more than an order of magnitude. We will also obtain with the array receiver HARP (Heterodyne Array Receiver Program) CO maps, in three CO isotopologues, of a large typical sample of prestellar and protostellar sources. We will then map the brightest hundred sources with the SCUBA‐2 polarimeter (POL‐2), producing the first statistically significant set of polarization maps in the submillimeter. The images and source catalogs will be a powerful reference set for astronomers, providing a detailed legacy archive for future telescopes, including ALMA, Herschel, and JWST.

Subfields: Astronomy and Astrophysics, Atmospheric Science

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HARP/ACSIS: a submillimetre spectral imaging system on the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope (2009, methodology): “The factors contributing to this are explained in full on the JCMT web page.2 For the new spectral imaging system, a review of the calibration observations taken for the Gould Belt Survey (Ward-Thompson et al. 2007) show HARP intensity values (mostly) below the reported JCMT standard values by up to”
Identifying the Low-Luminosity Population of Embedded Protostars in the c2d Observations of Clouds and Cores (2007, methodology): “Candidates identified in this study that show no evidence for being embedded in dense cores should be re-examined as additional data on each source becomes available (e.g., through large-scale surveys with Herschel, SCUBA-2, etc.) to ensure as complete a sample as possible.”
YOUNG STELLAR OBJECTS IN THE GOULD BELT (2015, background): “…its full potential in combination with results from the far-infrared and submillimeter surveys of the Gould Belt by the Herschel Space Observatory and SCUBA-2 on the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope, once they become fully available (Ward-Thompson et al. 2007; André et al. 2010; Harvey et al. 2013).”
Star Formation in the Milky Way and Nearby Galaxies (2012, methodology): “Deeper surveys of nearby clouds (Ward-Thompson et al. 2007b), the Galactic Plane, and extragalactic fields are planned with SCUBA-2.”
EVOLUTIONARY SIGNATURES IN THE FORMATION OF LOW-MASS PROTOSTARS. II. TOWARD RECONCILING MODELS AND OBSERVATIONS (2005, methodology): “This comparison must be revisited as better studies of the CMF become available with new instruments such as SCUBAII (Ward-Thompson et al. 2007).”
RESOLVING THE LUMINOSITY PROBLEM IN LOW-MASS STAR FORMATION (2011, background): “This diagram should be revisited in the future once deeper submillimeter and millimeter continuum surveys of nearby star-forming regions (such as the upcoming SCUBA-2 Gould Belt survey; Ward-Thompson et al. 2007b) have been completed to evaluate whether or not the time spent at Lbol .”