J/ApJS/110/21     Molecular clouds in Cepheus and Cassiopeia   (Yonekura+ 1997)

Molecular clouds in Cepheus and Cassiopeia. Yonekura Y., Dobashi K., Mizuno A., Ogawa H., Fukui Y. <Astrophys. J. Suppl. Ser. 110, 21 (1997)> =1997ApJS..110...21Y 1997ApJS..110...21Y (SIMBAD/NED BibCode)
ADC_Keywords: CO ; Interstellar medium Keywords: ISM: clouds - ISM: molecules - ISM: structure - radio lines: ISM - stars: formation - surveys Abstract: A large-scale ^13CO(J=1-0) survey for nearby molecular clouds was performed toward the Cepheus and Cassiopeia regions (100°<l<130° and -10°<b<20°) with the velocity coverage of -40<VLSR<+20km/s by using the two 4m millimeter-wave telescopes at Nagoya University. An area of 866 square degrees was covered at an 8' grid spacing with a 2.7' beam, and 48750 positions were observed. Significant 13CO emission (≥1.8K.km/s=3σ) is detected at 1015 positions. On the basis of the 13CO data, 188 distinct 13CO clouds are identified whose total mass is 1.0x105M. Physical properties of the 13CO clouds such as molecular column densities, sizes, and masses are derived for each cloud. Astronomical objects associated with the 13CO clouds were searched for in the literature: 10 H II regions, eight reflection nebulae, 23 T Tauri type stars, 28 molecular outflows, and 125 IRAS point sources selected as candidates for protostars are likely to be associated with the 13CO clouds. File Summary: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FileName Lrecl Records Explanations -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ReadMe 80 . This file table1.dat 107 206 A catalog of 13CO clouds table2.dat 61 24 Characteristics of cloud groups refs.dat 125 33 References -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Byte-by-byte Description of file: table1.dat -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bytes Format Units Label Explanations -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1- 3 I3 --- [YDM97]CO Sequential number ([YDM97] CO NNN in Simbad database) 4 A1 --- Note [bc] Note (1) 6- 15 A10 --- Cloud Cloud name 17- 22 F6.2 deg GLON Galactic longitude 24- 28 F5.2 deg GLAT Galactic latitude 30- 31 I2 h RAh Right ascension (1950) (2) 33- 34 I2 min RAm Right ascension (1950) 36- 39 F4.1 s RAs Right ascension (1950) 40 A1 --- DE- Declination sign 41- 42 I2 deg DEd Declination (1950) (2) 44- 45 I2 arcmin DEm Declination (1950) 47- 48 I2 arcsec DEs Declination (1950) 50- 52 F3.1 K TR* Temperature T*R(13CO) 54- 56 F3.1 km/s DV FWHM line width {DELTA}V(13CO) 58- 62 F5.1 km/s Vlsr LSR velocity 64- 67 F4.1 K.km/s IntI Integrated intensity 69- 72 F4.2 cm-2 tau Peak optical depth of the 13CO line measured at the peak positions of the 13CO clouds 74- 77 F4.1 10+21cm-2 N(H2) H2 molecular column density at the peak position 79- 81 I3 arcmin size1 Size (3) 82 A1 --- --- [x] 83- 85 I3 arcmin size2 Size (3) 87- 90 I4 pc Dist Adopted distance 91 A1 --- n_Dist [d] Note on Dist (4) 93- 96 I4 solMass Mcloud Molecular mass of the 13CO cloud 98-107 A10 --- r_Dist References to the adopted distances (5) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Note (1): b and c indicates the second and third values of the observed properties set (T*R, δVc and Vlsrc) Note (2): Peak positions of the 13CO clouds Note (3): Sizes of the 13CO clouds measured at 1.8K.km/s contours in Fig.1 (3σ) Note (4): Distances of these clouds were decided by the first step Note (5): The references are in the ref.dat file -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Byte-by-byte Description of file: table2.dat -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bytes Format Units Label Explanations -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 A1 --- Group [CDA] C: Close group D: Distant Group; A: clouds in Perseus Arm 2- 3 I2 --- [YDM97]GCl Sequential number ([YDM97] GCl NN in Simbad database) 5- 7 I3 deg LONmin Minimum galactic longitude 9- 11 I3 deg LONmax Maximum galactic longitude 13- 14 I2 deg LATmin Minimum galactic latitude 16- 17 I2 deg LATmax Maximum galactic latitude 19- 21 I3 km/s Vmin Minimum VLSR 23- 25 I3 km/s Vmax Maximum VLSR 27- 30 I4 pc Dist Adopted distance of the subgroup 32- 36 I5 solMass Mass Total molecular mass of the subgroup 38- 39 I2 --- Ncloud Number of component clouds identified in S3.2. 41- 55 A15 --- AssObj Associated objects 57- 61 A5 --- r_Dist References for adopted distances in refs.dat -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Byte-by-byte Description of file: refs.dat -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bytes Format Units Label Explanations -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1- 2 I2 --- Ref References number 4- 24 A21 --- Aut Author's name 28- 46 A19 --- BibCode Simbad bibcode 48-125 A78 --- Com Comment -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- History: Prepared via OCR at CDS.
(End) James Marcout, Patricia Bauer [CDS] 04-May-1998
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