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An Infrared Imaging Survey of the ρ Oph and R CrA Dark Cloud Cores

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 April 2016

Michael Burton*
Affiliation:
Anglo Australian Observatory, PO Box 296, Epping, NSW 2121

Abstract

We report on an initial survey of the cores of the Rho Ophiuchus and R Coronae Australis clouds, made with the AAT’s new IR array camera, IRIS. No turnover is seen in the initial luminosity function for ρ Oph to the sensitivity limit of the survey. Some implications for the low mass end of the initial mass function are discussed.

Type
Galactic and Stellar
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of Australia 1992

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