Physics
Scientific paper
Apr 2010
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ATNF proposal M136, Semester: April, 2010
Physics
Magellanic Clouds, Mopra
Scientific paper
Each year, we make incremental, but important progress in our search for, and characterisation of the weak and tenuous molecular component in the unusual and unique Magellanic Bridge. Despite the crowed Magellanic time in 2009 (due to the Authors' own Magellanic-based projects), we obtained sufficient unallocated telescope time to detect one more target. We re-submit a proposal for an additional 98 hours, that is similar to, but expanded from that submitted in 2009, to persue a more useful program to fully understand the properties of the molecular clouds in the Bridge. These data provide the only means by which we may estimate the physical parameters of the molecular regions in the Magellanic Bridge, and the only means by which we can understand the differences in the properties of the Bridge molecular component and the host SMC molecular component. We propose here to detect and locate the last remaining bright CO emission region in the Bridge, and then complete observations of the 13CO transition for all four of the Bridge targets. These data will provide a robust measure of any gradients of temperature, pressure and metalicity along the ~3 kpc region that is the focus of this study.
Fukui Yasuo
Kawamura Akiko
Minamidani Tetsuhiro
Mizuno Norikazu
Muller Erik
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