Discovery of Molecular Gas in the Outflow and Tidal Arms around M82

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2001-10-11

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0110283v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

4 pages, 6 figures. Uses emulateapj5. Accepted by ApJ Letters

Scientific paper

10.1086/338048

We present the first fully sampled map of 12CO (1-0) emission from M82 covering the entire galaxy. Our map contains a 12 x 15 kpc^2 area. We find that extraplanar CO emission, previously reported at short distances above the galactic plane, extends to heights of up to 6 kpc above the disk. Some of this emission is associated with tidal arms seen in HI, implying either that M82 contained substantial amounts of molecular gas in the outer disk, or that molecular gas formed after the tidal features. CO emission along the direction of the outflow extends to distances of 3 kpc above and below the disk. At this distance, the line is shifted in velocity about 100 km/s, and has the same sense as the galactic outflow from the central starburst. This implies that molecular gas may be entrained into the outflow.

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