Dense cores in Taurus L1495 cloud

Estimates of mean dust temperature and total mass are derived using modified blackbody fits to the spectral energy distributions. We detect 525 starless cores of which ~10-20 per cent are gravitationally bound and therefore presumably prestellar.

Our census of unbound objects is ~85 per cent complete for M>0.015M_{sun}_ in low-density regions (A_V_<~5mag), while the bound (prestellar) subset is ~85 per cent complete for M>0.1M_{sun}_ overall. The prestellar core mass function (CMF) is consistent with lognormal form, resembling the stellar system initial mass function, as has been reported previously. All of the inferred prestellar cores lie on filamentary structures whose column densities exceed the expected threshold for filamentary collapse, in agreement with previous reports.