Wide latitude CO survey of molecular clouds in the northern Milky Way
It is now well established that molecular clouds are an important part of the interstellar medium, containing much or most of the dense, cold component of the gas, and producing the massive stars and supernovae responsible for the diffuse, hot component. It would therefore appear essential in formulating a complete picture of the local interstellar medium to have some knowledge of the distribution and properties of nearly molecular clouds. The Goddard-Columbia 1.2 meter telescope was used to carry out a wide latitude, low angular resolution survey of CO along most of the first galactic quadrant and a small part of the second. A plane-of-the-sky map, which resulted from numerically integrating the survey over radial velocity, is presented. The Great Rift and the Aquila Rift molecular clouds of the Milky Way are discussed.
- Research Organization:
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration, New York (USA). Goddard Inst. for Space Studies; Columbia Univ., New York (USA)
- OSTI ID:
- 5941009
- Report Number(s):
- N-85-15574
- Resource Relation:
- Other Information: In NASA, Goddard Space Flight Center, Local Interstellar Medium, No. 81, 235-238p. (N--85-15539 06-90)
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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