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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 25 September 2002
The balloon-borne submillimeter instrument PRONAOS has observed one square degree areas towards the Orion and M 17 molecular clouds. The 2'-3.5' resolutionmaps obtained in four wide wavelength bands between 200 μm and 600 μm, exhibit the dust distribution in these regions. We analyze the temperature andspectral index of the dust, and we show the anticorrelation between these two parameters. We derive estimations of the ISM column densities and masses in these regions.