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CO: Twenty-Five Years of Millimeter-Wave Spectroscopy

Proceedings of the 170th Symposium of the International Astronomical Union, Held in Tucson, Arizona, May 29–June 5, 1995

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  • © 1997

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Editors:
  1. William B. Latter

    1. NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, USA

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  2. Simon J. E. Radford

    1. National Radio Astronomy Observatory, Tucson, USA

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  3. Philip R. Jewell

    1. National Radio Astronomy Observatory, Tucson, USA

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  4. Jeffrey G. Mangum

    1. National Radio Astronomy Observatory, Tucson, USA

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  5. John Bally

    1. CASA, University of Colorado, Boulder, USA

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Table of contents (69 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
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  2. Molecular Clouds in the Milky Way

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Present and Future CO Surveys

      • P. Thaddeus
      Pages 3-10

    3. CO in the Milky Way

      • Leo Blitz
      Pages 11-18

    4. A Molecular Worm in Scutum

      • T. M. Dame
      Pages 19-21

    5. Molecular Clouds Observed with the Egret Gamma-Ray Telescope

      • Seth W. Digel, Stanley D. Hunter, Reshmi Mukherjee, Isabelle A. Grenier, Andreas Heithausen, Gottfried Kanbach et al.
      Pages 22-24

    6. CO and the Multiphase ISM

      • Christopher F. Mckee
      Pages 25-32

    7. The Ursa Major Molecular Clouds

      • Marc W. Pound, Alyssa A. Goodman
      Pages 33-35

    8. FCRAO CO Survey of the Outer Galaxy

      • Mark H. Heyer
      Pages 36-38

    9. The CO 2-1/1-0 Ratio

      • Tetsuo Hasegawa
      Pages 39-46

    10. Mapping Dust Extinction in Molecular Clouds

      • João Alves, Charles J. Lada
      Pages 47-49

    11. On the Fractal Structure of Molecular Clouds

      • J. Stutzki, A. Heithausen, F. Bensch
      Pages 50-53

    12. The Origin and Structure of Molecular Clouds

      • John Bally
      Pages 54-56

    13. Molecular Gas Near the Galactic Center

      • Mark Morris
      Pages 57-64

    14. CO Mapping of the Inner Few Hundred Parsecs of the Galaxy

      • Tomoharu Oka, Tetsuo Hasegawa, Toshihiro Handa, Fumio Sato, Masato Tsuboi
      Pages 65-67

  3. Chemistry

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 69-69
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    2. Theoretical Chemistry

      • Eric Herbst
      Pages 71-78

    3. Observational Chemistry

      • C. M. Walmsley
      Pages 79-86

    4. CO at other Wavelengths

      • John H. Black
      Pages 87-94

    5. Millimeter-Wave Absorption Studies of the Onset of Dark-Cloud Chemistry

      • R. Lucas, H. S. Liszt
      Pages 95-97
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About this book

Interstellar carbon monoxide (CO) was first detected in 1970 with the 36 foot diameter telescope of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory! on Kitt Peak in Southern Arizona. R. W. Wilson, K. B. Jefferts, and A. A. Penzias of Bell Labs reported, "We have found intense 2.6 mm line radiation 2 from nine Galactic sources which we attribute to carbon monoxide." Soon afterward, several other basic molecules were also observed in space. IAU Symposium 170, CO: Twenty Five Years of Millimeter Wave Spectroscopy, was organized to commemorate those discoveries. The Symposium reviewed the accomplishments of a quarter century of research on interstellar molec­ ular gas, surveyed the current state of millimeter-wave spectroscopy, and gave a glimpse of what the next 25 years might hold. Studies of interstellar CO have revolutionized our understanding of the phases and dynamics of the interstellar medium, the initial and final stages of stellar evolution, the chemistry of dense and diffuse interstellar matter and of the solar system, the structure of the Milky Way galaxy, and the content and structure of other galaxies, some very distant. Spectroscopic studies of CO and other molecules are primary tools for investigating all these topics, which are among the most fundamental and active research areas in astrophysics. New developments in instrumentation, including sev­ eral powerful new telescopes, continue to keep millimeter and submillimeter wavelength radio astronomy at the forefront of research.

Editors and Affiliations

  • NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, USA

    William B. Latter

  • National Radio Astronomy Observatory, Tucson, USA

    Simon J. E. Radford, Philip R. Jewell, Jeffrey G. Mangum

  • CASA, University of Colorado, Boulder, USA

    John Bally

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: CO: Twenty-Five Years of Millimeter-Wave Spectroscopy

  • Book Subtitle: Proceedings of the 170th Symposium of the International Astronomical Union, Held in Tucson, Arizona, May 29–June 5, 1995

  • Editors: William B. Latter, Simon J. E. Radford, Philip R. Jewell, Jeffrey G. Mangum, John Bally

  • Series Title: International Astronomical Union Symposia

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-5414-7

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 1997

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-4283-0Published: 31 December 1996

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-4284-7Published: 31 December 1996

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-011-5414-7Published: 01 December 2013

  • Series ISSN: 1743-9213

  • Series E-ISSN: 2352-2186

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVII, 511

  • Number of Illustrations: 75 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Astronomy, Observations and Techniques, Astrophysics and Astroparticles

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