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From filamentary clouds to prestellar cores to the stellar IMF: initial highlights from the Herschel Gould Belt Survey [Letter]

As a senior member of the SPIRE Gould Belt survey team, I participated strongly in the definition of the Gould Belt Key Project scientific objectives, proposal, and implementation plan, and in the detailed implementation of the Science Demonstration phase observations on which this first team paper is based. I also proposed to ESA the SPIRE-PACS parallel mode which enabled these observations to be made, and supervised its detailed definition, and in addition contributed to the early data simulations and assessment of source extraction techniques including the one used here. This statement has been endorsed by lead author Andre.