Millimetre Continuum Observations of Southern Massive Star Formation Regions II. SCUBA observations of cold cores and the dust grain emissivity index $\beta$

Abstract

We report the results of a submillimetre continuum emission survey targeted toward 78 star formation regions, 72 of which are devoid of methanol maser and UC HII regions, identified in the SEST/SIMBA millimetre continuum survey of Hill et al. (2005). At least 45 per cent of the latter sources, dubbed `mm-only', detected in this survey are also devoid of mid infrared MSX, emission. The 450 and 850micron, continuum emission was mapped using the Submillimetre Common User Bolometer Array (SCUBA) instrument on the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope (JCMT). Emission is detected toward 97 per cent of the 78 sources targeted as well as towards 28 other SIMBA sources lying in the SCUBA fields. We concatenate the results from four (sub)millimetre continuum surveys of massive star formation [Walsh et al. (2003), Hill et al. (2005), Thompson et al. (2006); as well as this work], together with the Galactic Plane map of Pierce-Price et al. (2000) in order to determine the dust grain emissivity index $\beta$ for each of the sources in the SIMBA source list. We examine the value of $\beta$ with respect to temperature, as well as for the source classes identified in the SIMBA survey, for variation of this index. Our results indicate that $\beta$ is typically 2, which is consistent with previous determinations in the literature, but for a considerably larger sample than previous work.

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