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Molecular Clouds in Starburst Nuclei

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 August 2017

J.S. Young  and
N.A. Devereux
J.S. Young
Affiliation:
Department of Physics and Astronomy and Five College Radio Astronomy Observatory University of Massachusetts, Amherst MA 01003 USA
N.A. Devereux
Affiliation:
Department of Physics and Astronomy and Five College Radio Astronomy Observatory University of Massachusetts, Amherst MA 01003 USA

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We have observed 2.6 mm CO J=1−0 emission in a complete sample of galaxies with starburst nuclei using the 14 m millimeter telescope of the Five College Radio Astronomy Observatory (HPBW=45″). The galaxies in this sample have distances between 15 and 40 Mpc, and central 10 μm luminosities (R < 500 pc) comparable to the starburst galaxy M82 (Devereux 1989). Molecular gas was detected in 16 of the 18 galaxies observed, with global H2 masses in the range 109 to 2.5×1010M⊙.

Type
IX- Galaxy Nuclei
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 146: Dynamics of Galaxies and their Molecular Cloud Distributions , 1991 , pp. 311
Copyright
Copyright © Kluwer 1991 

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