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Jan 2009
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American Astronomical Society, AAS Meeting #213, #416.05; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 41, p.227
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Galactic Observations of the Terahertz C+ Line (GOT C+) is a Herschel Space Observatory (HSO) Key Program to study the diffuse interstellar medium by sampling the C+ fine structure line emission at 1.9 THz (158 microns) in the Galactic disk. Star formation activity is regulated by pressures in the interstellar medium, which in turn depend on heating and cooling rates, modulated by the gravitational potential, and shock and turbulent pressures. To understand these processes we need information about properties of the diffuse atomic and diffuse molecular gas clouds. The 158-micron CII line is an important tracer of diffuse regions, and C+ is a major ISM coolant, the Galaxy's strongest emission line virtually unobscured by dust, with a total luminosity about a 1000 times that of CO J=1-0. The GOT C+ program will obtain high spectral resolution CII spectra using the Heterodyne Instrument for the Far Infrared (HIFI) receiver. It will employ deep integrations, wide velocity coverage (350 km/s) with 0.22 km/s resolution, and systematic sparse sampling of the Galactic disk together with observations of selected targets, of over 900 lines of sight. It will be a resource to determine the properties of the atomic gas, in the (a) overall Galactic disk, (b) central 300pc of the Galactic center, (c) Galactic warp, (d) high latitude HI clouds, and (e) Photon Dominated Regions (PDRs). These spectra will provide the astronomical community with a rich statistical database of diffuse cloud properties, especially those of the atomic gas, sampled throughout the Galaxy for understanding the role of barometric pressure and turbulence in cloud evolution in the Galactic ISM and, by extension, other galaxies. The GOT C+ project will provide a template for future even larger-scale Galactic C+ surveys. This research was conducted at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and is supported by a NASA grant.
Goldsmith Paul F.
Langer William
Li Daming
Velusamy Thangasamy
Yorke Harold W.
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