The DOI matches its Crossref record.
From filamentary clouds to prestellar cores to the stellar IMF: Initial highlights from the Herschel Gould Belt Survey
Open accessAbstract
We summarize the first results from the Gould Belt Survey, obtained toward the Aquila rift and Polaris Flare regions during the science demonstration phase of Herschel. Our 70–500 μm images taken in parallel mode with the SPIRE and PACS cameras reveal a wealth of filamentary structure, as well as numerous dense cores embedded in the filaments. Between ~350 and 500 prestellar cores and ~45–60 Class 0 protostars can be identified in the Aquila field, while ~300 unbound starless cores and no protostars are observed in the Polaris field. The prestellar core mass function (CMF) derived for the Aquila region bears a strong resemblance to the stellar initial mass function (IMF), already confirming the close connection between the CMF and the IMF with much better statistics than earlier studies. Comparing and contrasting our Herschel results in Aquila and Polaris, we propose an observationally-driven scenario for core formation according to which complex networks of long, thin filaments form first within molecular clouds, and then the densest filaments fragment into a number of prestellar cores via gravitational instability.
Overview
The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.
Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.
Integrity signals
Registry
Cites
Statistics
Verification
Claims the paper makes
The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.
Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.
Self-check
Percentages, sums and reported differences re-computed from the paper’s own numbers.
The self-check needs the paper’s full text.
Citations
Cited by
Star Formation in the Milky Way and Nearby Galaxies
Kennicutt, R. C., & Evans, N. J. (2012) · Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics · doi:10.1146/annurev-astro-081811-125610 · Cited by 2,902
“Other studies have found similar thresholds for efficient star formation or the presence of dense cores (Onishi et al. 1998; Enoch et al. 2007; Johnstone et al. 2004; André et al. 2010; Li et al. 1997; Lada 1992).”
InfluentialThe Evolution of Compact Binary Star Systems
Postnov, K. A., & Yungelson, L. R. (2014) · Living Reviews in Relativity · doi:10.12942/lrr-2014-3 · Cited by 486
Dale, J. E., Ercolano, B., & Bonnell, I. A. (2012) · Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society · doi:10.1111/j.1365-2966.2012.21205.x · Cited by 306
WHAT DETERMINES THE DENSITY STRUCTURE OF MOLECULAR CLOUDS? A CASE STUDY OF ORION B WITH HERSCHEL
Schneider, N., André, P., Könyves, V., Bontemps, S., Motte, F., Federrath, C., Ward-Thompson, D., Arzoumanian, D., Benedettini, M., Bressert, E., et al. (2013) · The Astrophysical Journal · doi:10.1088/2041-8205/766/2/l17 · Cited by 266
Self-citation
Metadata
- Authors
- André, P., Men'shchikov, A., Bontemps, S., Könyves, V., Motte, F., Schneider, N., Didelon, P., Minier, V., Saraceno, P., Ward-Thompson, D., Di Francesco, J., White, G., Molinari, S., Testi, L., Abergel, A., Griffin, M., Henning, T., Royer, P., Merín, B., Vavrek, R., Attard, M., Arzoumanian, D., Wilson, C. D., Ade, P., Aussel, H., Baluteau, J.-P., Benedettini, M., Bernard, J.-P., Blommaert, J. A. D. L., Cambrésy, L., Cox, P., Di Giorgio, A., Hargrave, P., Hennemann, M., Huang, M., Kirk, J., Krause, O., Launhardt, R., Leeks, S., Le Pennec, J., Li, J. Z., Martin, P. G., Maury, A., Olofsson, G., Omont, A., Peretto, N., Pezzuto, S., Prusti, T., Roussel, H., Russeil, D., Sauvage, M., Sibthorpe, B., Sicilia-Aguilar, A., Spinoglio, L., Waelkens, C., Woodcraft, A., & Zavagno, A.
- Venue
- Astronomy and Astrophysics
- Publisher
- EDP Sciences
- Published
- 2010-07
- Volume
- 518
- Pages
- L102
- ISSN
- 0004-6361 (ISSN-L)
- 1432-0746
- OpenAlex
- W2026853476
- Cited by
- 1,464
- References
- 0
- FWCI
- 42.49
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
About these checks
Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.
Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.
Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.
What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›
Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review
How to cite
Cite CoChat for the checks on this page, and the paper for its own findings.
- This page
- CoChat. (2026). Citation check: From filamentary clouds to prestellar cores to the stellar IMF: Initial highlights from the Herschel Gould Belt Survey. https://app.cochat.ai/papers/10.1051/0004-6361/201014666
- The paper
- André, P., Men'shchikov, A., Bontemps, S., Könyves, V., Motte, F., Schneider, N., Didelon, P., Minier, V., Saraceno, P., Ward-Thompson, D., Di Francesco, J., White, G., Molinari, S., Testi, L., Abergel, A., Griffin, M., Henning, T., Royer, P., Merín, B., . . . Zavagno, A. (2010). From filamentary clouds to prestellar cores to the stellar IMF: Initial highlights from the Herschel Gould Belt Survey. Astronomy and Astrophysics. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201014666
Data sources
Bibliographic data: Semantic Scholar, OpenAlex, Crossref.
Contains information from the Semantic Scholar Academic Graph Datasets, made available under the ODC Attribution License (ODC-BY 1.0).
Semantic Scholar’s data is described in: Kinney, R., et al. (2023). The Semantic Scholar Open Data Platform. arXiv:2301.10140.
