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Aztec 1.1 Mm Observations Of The Mbm12 Molecular Cloud, M. J. Kim, S. Kim, S. Youn, M. S. Yun, Grant Wilson, I. Aretxaga, J. P. Williams, D. H. Hughes, A. Humphrey, J. E. Austermann, T. A. Perera, P. D. Mauskopf, L. Magnani, Y.-W. Kang

Grant Wilson

We present 1.1 mm observations of the dust continuum emission from the MBM12 high-latitude molecular cloud observed with the Astronomical Thermal Emission Camera (AzTEC) mounted on the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope on Mauna Kea, Hawaii. We surveyed a 6.34 deg$^2$ centered on MBM12, making this the largest area that has ever been surveyed in this region with submillimeter and millimeter telescopes. Eight secure individual sources were detected with a signal-to-noise ratio of over 4.4. These eight AzTEC sources can be considered to be real astronomical objects compared to the other candidates based on calculations of the false detection rate. The …