A UNIFORM CATALOG OF MOLECULAR CLOUDS IN THE MILKY WAY

ABSTRACT The all-Galaxy CO survey of Dame et al. is by far the most uniform, large-scale Galactic CO survey. Using a dendrogram-based decomposition of this survey, we present a catalog of 1064 massive molecular clouds throughout the Galactic plane. This catalog contains 2.5 × 108 solar masses, or 25...

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Published in:	The Astrophysical journal Vol. 822; no. 1; p. 52
Main Authors:	Rice, Thomas S., Goodman, Alyssa A., Bergin, Edwin A., Beaumont, Christopher, Dame, T. M.
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	United States The American Astronomical Society 01.05.2016
Subjects:	ASTROPHYSICS, COSMOLOGY AND ASTRONOMY CARBON MONOXIDE Clouds COMPARATIVE EVALUATIONS COMPUTERIZED SIMULATION Environmental legislation GALAXIES Galaxy: general HYDROGEN ISM: clouds ISM: molecules LINE WIDTHS MASS MASS SPECTRA MILKY WAY Milky Way Galaxy Molecular clouds MOLECULES Power law Tracking
ISSN:	0004-637X, 1538-4357
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