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Planck intermediate results XXVIII. Interstellar gas and dust in the Chamaeleon clouds as seen by Fermi LAT and Planck
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Ade , P A R , Aghanim , N , Aniano , G , Arnaud , M , Ashdown , M , Aumont , J , Baccigalupi , C , Banday , A J , Barreiro , R B , Bartolo , N , Battaner , E , Benabed , K , Benoit-Levy , A , Bernard , J -P , Bersanelli , M , Bielewicz , P , Bonaldi , A , Bonavera , L , Bond , J R , Borrill , J , Bouchet , F R , Boulanger , F , Burigana , C , Butler , R C , Calabrese , E , Cardoso , J -F , Casandjian , J M , Catalano , A , Chamballu , A , Chiang , H C , Christensen , P R , Colombo , L P L , Combet , C , Couchot , F , Crill , B P , Curto , A , Cuttaia , F , Danese , L , Davies , R D , Davis , R J , de Bernardis , P , de Rosa , A , de Zotti , G , Delabrouille , J , Desert , F -X , Dickinson , C , Diego , J M , Digel , S W , Dole , H , Donzelli , S , Dore , O , Douspis , M , Ducout , A , Dupac , X , Efstathiou , G , Elsner , F , Ensslin , T A , Eriksen , H K , Falgarone , E , Finelli , F , Forni , O , Frailis , M , Fraisse , A A , Franceschi , E , Frejsel , A , Fukui , Y , Galeotta , S , Galli , S , Ganga , K , Ghosh , T , Giard , M , Gjerlow , E , Gonzalez-Nuevo , J , Gorski , K M , Gregorio , A , Grenier , I A , Gruppuso , A , Hansen , F K , Hanson , D , Harrison , D L , Henrot-Versill , S , Hernandez-Monteagudo , C , Herranz , D , Hildebrandt , S R , Hivon , E , Hobson , M , Holmes , W A , Hovest , W , Huffenberger , K M , Hurier , G , Jaffe , A H , Jaffe , T R , Jones , W C , Juvela , M , Keihaenen , E , Keskitalo , R , Kisner , T S , Kneissl , R , Knoche , J , Kunz , M , Kurki-Suonio , H , Lagache , G , Lamarre , J -M , Lasenby , A , Lattanzi , M , Lawrence , C R , Leonardi , R , Levrier , F , Liguori , M , Lilje , P B , Linden-Vørnle , M , Lopez-Caniego , M , Lubin , P M , Macias-Perez , J F , Maffei , B , Maino , D , Mandolesi , N , Maris , M , Marshall , D J , Martin , P G , Martinez-Gonzalez , E , Masi , S , Matarrese , S , Mazzotta , P , Melchiorri , A , Mendes , L , Mennella , A , Migliaccio , M , Miville-Deschenes , M -A , Moneti , A , Montier , L , Morgant
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The nearby Chamaeleon clouds have been observed in Υ rays by the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) and in thermal dust emission by Planck and IRAS. Cosmic rays and large dust grains, if smoothly mixed with gas, can jointly serve with the Hi and 12CO radio data to (i) map the hydrogen column densities, NH, in the different gas phases, in particular at the dark neutral medium (DNM) transition between the H I-bright and CO-bright media; (ii) constrain the CO-to-H2 conversion factor, XCO; and (iii) probe the dust properties per gas nucleon in each phase and map their spatial variations across the clouds. We have separated clouds at local, intermediate, and Galactic velocities in H i and 12CO line emission to model in parallel the γ-ray intensity recorded between 0.4 and 100 GeV; the dust optical depth at 353 GHz, τ353; the thermal radiance of the large grains; and an estimate of the dust extinction, AVQ, empirically corrected for the starlight intensity. The dust and gamma-models have been coupled to account for the DNM gas. The consistent γ-emissivity spectra recorded in the different phases confirm that the GeV-TeV cosmic rays probed by the LAT uniformly permeate all gas phases up to the 12CO cores. The dust and cosmic rays both reveal large amounts of DNM gas, with comparable spatial distributions and twice as much mass as in the CO-bright clouds. We give constraints on the H I-DNM-CO transitions for five separate clouds. CO-dark H2 dominates the molecular columns up to A(V) similar or equal to 0.9 and its mass often exceeds the one-third of the molecular mass expected by theory. The corrected A(VQ) extinction largely provides the best fit to the total gas traced by the γ rays. Nevertheless, we find evidence for a marked rise in AVQ/NH with increasing NH and molecular fraction, and with decreasing dust temperature. Th