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The Per-Tau Shell: A Giant Star-forming Spherical Shell Revealed by 3D Dust Observations

  • Authors: Shmuel Bialy, Catherine Zucker, Alyssa Goodman, Michael M. Foley, João Alves, Vadim A. Semenov, Robert Benjamin, Reimar Leike, and Torsten Enßlin

2021 The Astrophysical Journal Letters 919 L5.

  • Provider: AAS Journals

Caption: Figure 1.

Finding Chart. Left panel: the Perseus-Taurus region as seen with Planck E(B-V) dust (Abergel et al. 2014). The Taurus and Perseus molecular clouds are indicated (as defined in Zucker et al. 2021). Right panel: 2D projection of 3D density structures (densities n > 15 cm−3) based on L20's 3D dust map. While on the plane of the sky (as well as in velocity space; see Figure 4(a)), the Perseus and Taurus clouds seem to connect, in practice they are separated by ≈150 pc along the LOS. As we discuss in this Letter, the two clouds are still related, as they both lie on two opposing ends of a large 3D shell, the so-called “Per-Tau Shell.”

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