1.1mm continuum camera Bolocam completed dust imaging of Perseus
Molecular Cloud 
Bolocam, 1.1mm
continuum camera, made large field imaging of cold dust cloud in
Perseus Molecular Cloud. This represents the largest millimeter
continuum map of Perseus to date. In total 122 molecular cores
have been detected in this survey. The Bolocam survey reveals
considerably denser, more compact material than maps in other column
density tracers such as 13CO and AV, although the general morphologies
are roughly consistent. Combining with the c2d Spitzer Legacy
data on Perseus, the results provide a census of dense cores and
protostars in Perseus and improve our understanding of the earliest
stages of star formation in molecular clouds. The result was
published by
Enoch
et al 2006 in Astrophysical Journal.
Figure 1.
Bolocam 1.1 mm map of the Perseus Molecular
Cloud, which covers 7.5 deg(143 pc2
at a distance of 250 pc (34000 data points in total).
Figure 2.
Bolocam 1.1 mm map of the Perseus Molecular
Cloud, with the 122 1.1mm sources detected by small circles.
Regions of high source density are magnified in the diagram.