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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 introduces starless and prestellar cores and discusses the current paradigm of low-to-intermediate mass star formation in molecular clouds.

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    This was correct at the time of writing. POL-2 has subsequently been commissioned.

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