PHYSICAL PROPERTIES OF MOLECULAR CLOUDS FOR THE ENTIRE MILKY WAY DISK

ABSTRACT This study presents a catalog of 8107 molecular clouds that covers the entire Galactic plane and includes 98% of the 12CO emission observed within . The catalog was produced using a hierarchical cluster identification method applied to the result of a Gaussian decomposition of the Dame et a...

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Published in:	The Astrophysical journal Vol. 834; no. 1; pp. 57 - 87
Main Authors:	Miville-Deschênes, Marc-Antoine, Murray, Norman, Lee, Eve J.
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	Philadelphia The American Astronomical Society 01-01-2017 IOP Publishing
Subjects:	Accretion disks Astrophysics ASTROPHYSICS, COSMOLOGY AND ASTRONOMY AUGMENTATION CARBON MONOXIDE Clouds Correlation CORRELATIONS COSMIC DUST DATA ANALYSIS DENSITY Dispersion DISPERSIONS DISTANCE EMISSION Galactic disk Galaxies Galaxy: general HYDROGEN Injection ISM: clouds ISM: general ISM: kinematics and dynamics LINE WIDTHS MASS methods: data analysis MILKY WAY Molecular clouds Physical properties TURBULENCE Turbulent energy VELOCITY
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