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		| Paper: | 
		Massive Infrared-Quiet Dense Cores: Unveiling the Initial Conditions of High-Mass Star Formation | 
	 
	
		| Volume: | 
		387, Massive Star Formation: Observations Confront Theory | 
	 
	
		| Page: | 
		22 | 
	 
	
		| Authors: | 
		Motte, F.; Bontemps, S.; Schneider, N.; Schilke, P.; Menten, K.M. | 
	 
	
	
		| Abstract: | 
		As Th. Henning said at the conference, cold precursors of high-mass stars are now “hot topics”. We here propose some observational criteria to identify massive infrared-quiet dense cores which can host the high-mass analogs of Class 0 protostars and pre-stellar condensations. We also show how far-infrared to millimeter imaging surveys of entire complexes forming OB stars are starting to unveil the initial conditions of high-mass star formation. | 
	 
	
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