Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
1996-12-10
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
7 pages of LaTeX with 5 included figures. Presented at the IRTS symposium at ISAS in Japan on 12 Nov 96
Scientific paper
The FIRAS instrument on the COBE satellite has conducted an unbiased survey of the far-infrared emission from our Galaxy. The first results of this survey were reported by Wright et al. (1991), and later conclusions were reported in Bennett et al. (1994). I report the results of analyses of this spectral survey, which includes emission lines from 158 micron C+, 122 micron and 205 micron N+, 370 micron and 609 micron neutral C, and CO J=2-1 through 5-4. The morphological distribution along the galactic plane (b=0 deg) for all the spectral line emission, and the high galactic latitude intensities of the strong C+ and 205 micron N+ emission are discussed. The high galactic latitude intensity of the 158 micron fine structure transition from C+ is I = (1.43 +/- 0.12)*1E-6 csc|b| erg/cm^2/s/sr for |b| > 15 deg and it decreases more rapidly than the far infrared intensity with increasing galactic latitude.
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