The CO-H2 conversion factor of diffuse ISM: Bright 12CO emission also traces diffuse gas

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2011-02-23

arxiv.org/abs/1102.4667v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Galaxy Astrophysics

5 pages, 1 PostScript figure. To be published in the proceedings of the Zermatt 2010 conference: "Conditions and impact of sta

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We show that the XCO factor, which converts the CO luminosity into the column
density of molecular hydrogen has similar values for dense, fully molecular gas
and for diffuse, partially molecular gas. We discuss the reasons of this
coincidence and the consequences for the understanding of the interstellar
medium.

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