Large-Scale Structure of the Molecular Gas in Taurus Revealed by High Linear Dynamic Range Spectral Line Mapping

• Published in: The Astrophysical journal Vol. 680; no. 1; pp. 428 - 445
• Main Authors: Goldsmith, Paul F, Heyer, Mark, Narayanan, Gopal, Snell, Ronald, Li, Di, Brunt, Chris
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Chicago, IL IOP Publishing 10.06.2008; University of Chicago Press
• Subjects: Astronomy; Earth, ocean, space; Exact sciences and technology; stars: formation; Star formation; radio lines: ISM; Dynamics; ISM: evolution; ISM: molecules; Mapping manifolds; Molecular gas; ISM: individual (Taums); Large-scale structure

We report the results of a 100 deg super(2) survey of the Taurus molecular cloud region in super(12)CO and super(13)CO [image]. The image of the cloud in each velocity channel includes [image] Nyquist-sampled pixels on a 20 super([image] ) grid. The high sensitivity and large spatial dynamic range o...