A SEARCH FOR RADIO-CONTINUUM EMISSION FROM YOUNG STELLAR OBJECTS IN BOK GLOBULES

We present results of a VLA-D search of 3.6 cm continuum emission towa rd a selected sample of Bok globules carried out to better characteriz e their stellar contents. A total of forty-one radio sources were dete cted. Eleven of these sources are located within the optical extent of the globules and may correspond to embedded sources, We identify seve n candidates to protostars of Class 0, We also identify five globules without any sign of star formation in infrared or centimeter wavelengt hs. These starless globules are candidates to being ideal laboratories for studying the physical conditions of pre-collapsing cloud cores. V irtually all the globules with positive radio continuum detections wer e also previously found to have associated molecular outflows. This re sult supports the scenario in which the radio continuum emission arise s from shock-ionized circumstellar gas. (C) 1996 American Astronomical Society.