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A Molecular Worm in Scutum

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 May 2016

T. M. Dame
T. M. Dame*
Affiliation:
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, 60 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA 02138

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Over the past four years, Pat Thaddeus and I have been using the CfA 1.2 m telescope to carry out a new CO survey of the first Galactic quadrant with a sensitivity per solid angle 3–10 times higher than previous CO surveys of the plane, and 16 times higher than the only previous extensive wide-latitude survey (Dame et al. 1987). Since a preliminary purpose of this survey is the study of molecular gas out of the plane in the inner Galaxy, the observations have so far been confined mainly to several vertical strips across the plane covering a few degrees in Galactic longitude and 6°–8° in Galactic latitude; details of this on-going survey are given in Dame & Thaddeus (1995).

Type
Molecular Clouds in the Milky Way
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 170: CO: Twenty-Five Years of Millimeter-Wave Spectroscopy , 1997 , pp. 19 - 21
Copyright
Copyright © Kluwer 1997 

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