CO in extragalactic giant molecular clouds Virtual Observatory Resource

Authors
  1. Bolatto A.D.
  2. Leroy A.K.
  3. Rosolowsky E.
  4. Walter F.
  5. Blitz L.
  6. Published by
    CDS
Abstract

We use high spatial resolution observations of CO to systematically measure the resolved size-line width, luminosity-line width, luminosity-size, and mass-luminosity relations of GMCs in a variety of extragalactic systems. Although the data are heterogeneous, we analyze them in a consistent manner to remove the biases introduced by limited sensitivity and resolution, thus obtaining reliable sizes, velocity dispersions, and luminosities. We compare the results obtained in dwarf galaxies with those from the Local Group spiral galaxies. We find that extragalactic GMC properties measured across a wide range of environments are very much compatible with those in the Galaxy. The property that shows the largest variability is their resolved brightness temperature, although even that is similar to the average Galactic value in most sources.

Keywords
  1. molecular-clouds
  2. magellanic-clouds
  3. milky-way-galaxy
  4. radio-astronomy
Bibliographic source Bibcode
2008ApJ...686..948B
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https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/cat/J/ApJ/686/948
IVOA Identifier IVOID
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/686/948
Document Object Identifer DOI
doi:10.26093/cds/vizier.16860948

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History

2011-01-11T08:59:05Z
Resource record created
2011-01-11T08:59:05Z
Created
2017-10-03T05:13:05Z
Updated

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