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Session: Stars, Planets and the Interstellar Medium

Name: Dr. Tatiana Pavlidou (University of Vienna)
Coauthors: No coauthors were included.
Type: Oral
Title: Linking the Class 0 and Hot Corino populations of the Perseus Molecular Cloud Complex
Abstract:

Class 0 sources represent the earliest and the coldest phase of the star formation process. They are thought to be the new-born protostars still deeply embedded in their parent cloud. Hot corinos are compact (~100 AU), hot (~100K) and dense (~10^7 cm^(-3)) envelopes abundant in complex organic molecules (COMs) and are associated with low-mass Class 0 sources. In this talk I will present the first results from a set of photometric criteria using Herschel and Spitzer data. I will focus on the Perseus molecular cloud complex in which the youngest population of stars is recovered by these criteria. I will present evidence that this population might coincide with the population of hot corinos which can support these photometric characteristics as criteria for hot corino candidates in general.