Hostname: page-component-586b7cd67f-g8jcs Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-12-05T02:39:47.799Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false

A Nearby Example of a Giant Molecular Cloud

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 August 2015

J. W. Barrett
Affiliation:
Astronomy Program, S.U.N.Y. at Stony Brook
R.L. deZafra
Affiliation:
Astronomy Program, S.U.N.Y. at Stony Brook
D. B. Sanders
Affiliation:
Astronomy Program, S.U.N.Y. at Stony Brook
P. M. Solomon
Affiliation:
Astronomy Program, S.U.N.Y. at Stony Brook

Extract

Core share and HTML view are not available for this content. However, as you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button.

We have mapped an extensive molecular cloud in Perseus in the 115 GHz line of 12CO. Observations were made every 10′ in right ascension and declination over most of the cloud, and every 2′ in the regions of most intense emission, near the open cluster IC 348 and near the reflection nebula NGC 1333. We also obtained 110 GHz 13CO data every 2′ in the latter regions, as well as every 10′ in several long strips across the cloud. A total of 812 positions were observed in 12CO, and 200 in 13CO. This work was done using the 5 m antenna of the Millimeter Wave Observatory of the University of Texas. The half-power beam size was 2!6.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Reidel 1980