| Description |
As demonstrated by the Herschel first highlights, both the Gould Belt and the HOBYS survey have been extremely successful. While the quality of the corresponding Herschel data is generally excellent, we have identified a few coverage or saturation problems which we intend to fix using the additional observations proposed in the present application. These observations will increase the completeness and legacy value of both surveys. We also propose a small extension to the Gould Belt parallel-mode survey of the Taurus complex in order to cover an area which shows faint striations in CO observations. Combined with the existing Taurus data, the proposed extension will allow us to study, within the same cloud, the properties of the whole spectrum of filamentary structures from faint, non-star forming striations to dense star-forming filaments. Likewise, we propose to slightly extend our parallel-mode survey of the Cygnus X region, the most massive and most active star-forming complex targeted by the HOBYS key project, in order to improve the completeness of our census of high-mass protostars/prestellar cores in this important target cloud. |
