A deep CO survey of molecular clouds in the southern Milky Way

Journal Article · Wed Nov 01 04:00:00 EST 1989 · Astrophysical Journal, Supplement Series; (USA)

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1086/191384· OSTI ID:7242312

Bronfman, L; Alvarez, H; Cohen, R S; Thaddeus, P ^[1]

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1. Universidad de Chile, Santiago (Chile) Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, MA (USA) Columbia Univ., New York, NY (USA)

The complete set of observations from the first out-of-plane CO survey of the southern Milky Way is presented. A spatial map, obtained by integrating the CO emission over the entire observed spectral range, 333 km/s, summarizes the survey concisely and can be compared with gamma-ray, IR, and other continuum data. The kinematic information is summarized in two longitude-velocity diagrams, which represent in one case the CO emission integrated over the whole latitude coverage of the survey, and in the other, to improve the contrast for the distant molecular clouds, over a narrower latitude region within 0.75 deg of the Galactic equator. The information is unfolded in a complete set of longitude-velocity contour diagrams, one for each latitude observed. 18 refs.

• OSTI ID: 7242312
• Journal Information: Astrophysical Journal, Supplement Series; (USA), Journal Name: Astrophysical Journal, Supplement Series; (USA) Vol. 71; ISSN APJSA; ISSN 0067-0049
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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640105* -- Astrophysics & Cosmology-- Galaxies
71 CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS
GENERAL PHYSICS
ASTRONOMY
CALIBRATION
CARBON COMPOUNDS
CARBON MONOXIDE
CARBON OXIDES
CHALCOGENIDES
COSMIC GASES
DISTRIBUTION
EMISSION SPECTRA
FLUIDS
GALAXIES
GASES
MAPS
MILKY WAY
OXIDES
OXYGEN COMPOUNDS
PARTICLE KINEMATICS
RADIAL VELOCITY
RADIOASTRONOMY
SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION
SPECTRA
SPECTROSCOPY
TELESCOPES
VELOCITY