ISM -- Oral Presentation
The COMPLETE Survey
Naomi Ridge, Harvard-Smithsonian CfA
The COMPLETE Team
The COMPLETE Survey will produce an unbiased database that
will serve the star-formation research community for many years to come.
COMPLETE is comprised of CoOrdinated Molecular Probe Line, Extinction
and Thermal Emission observations of a small set of large star-forming
regions scheduled to be extensively observed as part of the SIRTF c2d
Legacy Program (Perseus, Ophiuchus and Serpens). COMPLETE is unique in
its coordinated approach - prior observations of the types included in
COMPLETE abound, but they only rarely fully sample any region, and no
survey has ever covered a single (about 10 pc) region fully with molecular-line,
extinction and dust-emission observations. COMPLETE will provide star-formation
theories with statistical constraints on the temporal and spatial
frequency of inward motions, outflow, cloud disruption, core formation
and other key parameters. Here we present some highlights from the
``Phase 1'' COMPLETE observations and analysis, concentrating on the
Perseus molecular cloud complex.