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CO in the Large Magellanic Cloud — a SEST key project

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New Aspects of Magellanic Cloud Research

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Results from the SEST key project to study carbon monoxide in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) are reviewed. A survey of the general properties of the CO emission in LMC molecular clouds has revealed that the lines are weaker and narrower than equivalent lines in the Galaxy. Attempts to determine the conversion factor, X, between CO emission and molecular hydrogen column density in two major CO complexes show that, taken at face value, it varies between 1.5 and 3 times the ‘standard’ Galactic value. However, the significance of these values of X are discussed in terms of the physical conditions in the LMC. Finally, some more detailed results on CO isotopically substituted species in the Doradus region are presented.

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Booth, R.S. (1993). CO in the Large Magellanic Cloud — a SEST key project. In: Baschek, B., Klare, G., Lequeux, J. (eds) New Aspects of Magellanic Cloud Research. Lecture Notes in Physics, vol 416. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-56432-2_162

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