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CO in Mildly Active Galaxies

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 August 2017

R. Wielebinski*
Affiliation:
Max-Planck-Institut für Radioastronomie Auf dem Hügel 69 D-5300 Bonn 1 Federal Republic of Germany

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The ratio between the intensities of the various CO line transitions, with the additional information about the isotope abundance, should enable us to probe the optical depth in the molecular clouds in galaxies. There are, of course, problems in interpretation as a result of the unknown structure of the clouds, their distribution and temperature. These problems become particularly important since most of the present data are derived in the vicinity of nuclei of galaxies.

Type
V- CO in Galactic Disks
Copyright
Copyright © Kluwer 1991 

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