Carbon monoxide along the line of sight to galactic center infrared sources

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Carbon Monoxide, Galactic Nuclei, Infrared Sources (Astronomy), Line Of Sight, Absorption Spectra, Ionized Gases, Line Spectra, Microwave Spectra, Molecular Spectra, Radio Spectra

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High resolution absorption spectra of a low-lying fundamental vibration-rotation band line of carbon monoxide at 4.64 microns have been obtained toward several galactic center infrared sources. The absorption profiles show contributions over a wide range of velocities from a number of individual clouds which have been observed previously in radio and millimeter-wave molecular line spectra. They also demonstrate that the 20 km/s cloud is situated in front of the galactic center and that the 50 km/s cloud is located behind much or all of SgrA West. Two galactic center sources, IRS3 and IRS7, show strong absorptions near 50 km/s which may originate in the circumnuclear neutral ring; otherwise these objects must lie behind the 50 km/s cloud, and behind the galactic center by at least a few parsecs.

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