Modelling of dust emission of a filament in the Taurus molecular cloud
arXiv:2310.20585 · doi:10.1051/0004-6361/202347710
Abstract
Dust emission is an important tool in studies of star-forming clouds, as a tracer of column density and indirectly via the dust evolution that is connected to the history and physical conditions of the clouds. We examine radiative transfer (RT) modelling of dust emission over an extended cloud region, using a filament in the Taurus molecular cloud as an example. We examine how well far-infrared observations can be used to determine both the cloud and the dust properties. Using different assumptions of the cloud shape, radiation field, and dust properties, we fit RT models to Herschel observations of the Taurus filament. Further comparisons are made with measurements of the near-infrared extinction. The models are used to examine the degeneracies between the different cloud parameters and the dust properties. The results show significant dependence on the assumed cloud structure and the spectral shape of the external radiation field. If these are constrained to the most likely values, the observations can be explained only if the dust far-infrared (FIR) opacity has increased by a factor of 2-3 relative to the values in diffuse medium. However, a narrow range of FIR wavelengths provides only weak evidence of the spatial variations in dust, even in the models covering several square degrees of a molecular cloud. The analysis of FIR dust emission is affected by several sources of uncertainty. Further constraints are therefore needed from observations at shorter wavelengths, especially regarding the trends in dust evolution.
Accepted for publication in A&A
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