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Published May 2019 | Accepted Version + Supplemental Material + Published
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SCOPE: SCUBA-2 Continuum Observations of Pre-protostellar Evolution – survey description and compact source catalogue

Abstract

We present the first release of the data and compact-source catalogue for the JCMT Large Program SCUBA-2 Continuum Observations of Pre-protostellar Evolution (SCOPE). SCOPE consists of 850 μμm continuum observations of 1235 Planck Galactic Cold Clumps (PGCCs) made with the Submillimetre Common-User Bolometer Array 2 on the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope. These data are at an angular resolution of 14.4 arcsec, significantly improving upon the 353 GHz resolution of Planck at 5 arcmin, and allowing for a catalogue of 3528 compact sources in 558 PGCCs. We find that the detected PGCCs have significant sub-structure, with 61 per cent of detected PGCCs having three or more compact sources, with filamentary structure also prevalent within the sample. A detection rate of 45 per cent is found across the survey, which is 95 per cent complete to Planck column densities of NH_2 > 5 × 10^(21) cm^(−2). By positionally associating the SCOPE compact sources with young stellar objects, the star formation efficiency, as measured by the ratio of luminosity to mass, in nearby clouds is found to be similar to that in the more distant Galactic Plane, with the column density distributions also indistinguishable from each other.

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© 2019 The Author(s) Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Royal Astronomical Society. This article is published and distributed under the terms of the Oxford University Press, Standard Journals Publication Model (https://academic.oup.com/journals/pages/open_access/funder_policies/chorus/standard_publication_model). Accepted 2019 February 22. Received 2019 February 8; in original form 2018 October 18. Published: 26 February 2019. The authors would like to thank the anonymous referee for their comments; they have greatly improved the quality of the paper. DJE is supported by an STFC postdoctoral grant (ST/M000966/1). MJ acknowledges the support of the Academy of Finland Grant No. 285769. DC is currently supported by the Centre National d'Études Spatiales (CNES) through PhD grant 0102541 and the Région Bourgogne Franche-Comté. MK was supported by Basic Science Research Program through the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) funded by the Ministry of Science, ICT & Future Planning (No.NRF-2015R1C1A1A01052160). CWL is supported by Basic Science Research Program through the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) funded by the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology (NRF-2016R1A2B4012593). JHH is supported by the NSF of China under Grant Nos. 11873086 and U1631237, partly by Yunnan province (2017HC018), and also partly by the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) through a grant to the CAS South America Center for Astronomy (CASSACA) in Santiago, Chile. K.W. acknowledges support by the National Key Research and Development Program of China (2017YFA0402702), the National Science Foundation of China (11721303), and the starting grant at the Kavli Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics, Peking University (7101502016). The James Clerk Maxwell Telescope is operated by the East Asian Observatory on behalf of The National Astronomical Observatory of Japan; Academia Sinica Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics; the Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute; the Operation, Maintenance, and Upgrading Fund for Astronomical Telescopes and Facility Instruments, budgeted from the Ministry of Finance (MOF) of China and administrated by the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), as well as the National Key R&D Program of China (No. 2017YFA0402700). Additional funding support is provided by the Science and Technology Facilities Council of the United Kingdom and participating universities in the United Kingdom and Canada. The James Clerk Maxwell Telescope (JCMT) has historically been operated by the Joint Astronomy Centre on behalf of the Science and Technology Facilities Council of the United Kingdom, the National Research Council of Canada, and the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research. Additional funds for the construction of SCUBA-2 were provided by the Canada Foundation for Innovation. This research was carried out in part at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, which is operated for NASA by the California Institute of Technology. This research has made use of NASA's Astrophysics Data System. The STARLINK software (Currie et al. 2014) is currently supported by the East Asian Observatory. DJE would like to dedicate this work to his auntie, Marjorie Eden.

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