A Survey of High-Latitude Molecular Gas in the Southern Galactic Hemisphere

Details A Survey of High-Latitude Molecular Gas in the Southern Galactic Hemisphere A Survey of High-Latitude Molecular Gas in the Southern Galactic Hemisphere

May 2000

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2000apj...535..167m&link_type=abstract

The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 535, Issue 1, pp. 167-175.

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

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Ism: Clouds, Ism: Molecules, Radio Lines: Ism

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To determine the distribution of molecular gas at high Galactic latitudes, nearly one-half of the southern Galactic hemisphere at b<=-30deg was surveyed in the CO (1-0) transition at 115 GHz. The sampling was done on a locally Cartesian grid with 1° (true angle) spacing in Galactic longitude and latitude. Of the 11,478 points in the grid, the 4982 that rise above an elevation of 30° in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the site of the 1.2 m millimeter-wave telescope used for the survey, were observed to an rms of T*A~0.1 K. We found 144 distinct CO (1-0) emission lines along 133 lines of sight. Of these detections, 58 are new and 75 are associated with 26 previously cataloged high-latitude molecular clouds situated within the survey boundaries. The surface filling factor of molecular gas is 0.03, a factor of 10 greater than that found in the northern Galactic hemisphere at b>=+30deg. On the assumption that the CO/H2 ratio [N(H2)/W(CO)] is given by 1.0×1020 cm-2 (K km s-1)-1, the mass surface density of molecular gas in the region of the survey is 0.09 Msolar pc-2. The Gaussian scale height of the 133 detections is ~100 pc, consistent with that determined for lower latitude dark clouds.

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