Images of atomic carbon in the interstellar medium

Details Images of atomic carbon in the interstellar medium Images of atomic carbon in the interstellar medium

Dec 1991

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1991natur.354..511w&link_type=abstract

Nature (ISSN 0028-0836), vol. 354, Dec. 19, 1991, p. 511-513.

Physics

58

Carbon, Interstellar Matter, Molecular Clouds, Star Formation, Abundance, Electron Transitions, Galactic Structure, Milky Way Galaxy

Scientific paper

Observations of the submillimeter line due to the 3P1 - 3P0 fine-structure transition of C I are presented and used to construct high-resolution maps of neutral carbon in molecular clouds in the star-forming region Orion A, in the externally illuminated cloud S140, in the edge-on ionization front of M17, and at the Galactic Center. C I emission is indeed concentrated in a transition zone, but earlier suggestions that neutral carbon is also present at lower concentrations within the clouds are confirmed. In the case of M17, the images provide direct evidence for clumpiness in the cloud distribution.

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