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Detection of Submillimeter Lines of CO (0.65 mm) and H2O (0.79 mm)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 August 2015

T. G. Phillips ,
John Kwan  and
P. J. Huggins
T. G. Phillips
Affiliation:
Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ 07974
John Kwan
Affiliation:
Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ 07974
P. J. Huggins
Affiliation:
New York University, New York, NY 10003

Abstract

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The 91.5 cm telescope of NASA's Kuiper Airborne Observatory has been used, in conjunction with an InSb heterodyne receiver, to detect the J = 4-3 submillimeter transition of CO (461 GHz) and the 414−321 transition of H2O (380 GHz). The water emission was detected from the Orion “plateau” region.

Type
Research Article
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 87: Interstellar Molecules , 1980 , pp. 21 - 24
Copyright
Copyright © Reidel 1980 

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