A Catalogue of Optically Selected Cores

Abstract

We present a new catalogue of 406 dense cores optically selected by using the STScI Digitized Sky Survey (DSS). In this catalogue 306 cores have neither an Embedded YSO (EYSO) nor a Pre-Main-Sequence (PMS) star, 94 cores have EYSOs (1 core has both an EYSO and a PMS star), and 6 cores have PMS star only. Our sample of dense cores in the catalogue is fairly complete within a category of northern Lynds class 5, 6 clouds, and southern Hartley et al. (1986)'s class A clouds, providing a database useful for the systematic study of dense cores. Most of the cores listed in the catalogue have diameters between $0.05-0.36$ pc with a mean of $\sim 0.24$ pc. The sizes ($\sim 0.33$ pc in the mean) of cores with EYSOs are found to be usually larger than the sizes ($\sim 0.22$ pc in the mean) of starless cores. The typical mean gas density of the cores is $\sim 7\times 10^{3}c{m}^{-3}$. Most of the cores are more likely elongated than spherical (mean aspect ratio: $\sim 2.4$). The ratio of the number of cores with EYSOs to the number of starless cores for our sample is about 0.3, suggesting that the typical lifetime of starless cores is $0.3-1.6$ Myr, about 3 times longer than the duration of the Class 0 and Class I phases. This lifetime is shorter than expected from models of ambipolar diffusion, by factors of 2-44.

22 pages, 8 figures, 3 tables, and to appear in ApJS. Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

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