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Submillimetre Studies of Prestellar and Starless Cores in the Ophiuchus, Taurus and Cepheus Molecular Clouds

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This chapter discusses the Ophiuchus molecular cloud.

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Pattle, K.M. (2017). The Ophiuchus Molecular Cloud. In: Submillimetre Studies of Prestellar and Starless Cores in the Ophiuchus, Taurus and Cepheus Molecular Clouds. Springer Theses. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-56520-0_3

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