J/ApJS/149/343      Giant molecular clouds in M33            (Engargiola+, 2003)

Giant molecular clouds in M33. I. BIMA all-disk survey. Engargiola G., Plambeck R.L., Rosolowsky E., Blitz L. <Astrophys. J. Suppl. Ser., 149, 343 (2003)> =2003ApJS..149..343E 2003ApJS..149..343E
ADC_Keywords: Molecular clouds ; Carbon monoxide ; H I data ; Radio lines Keywords: galaxies: individual (M33, NGC 598) - galaxies: ISM - ISM: clouds - ISM: molecules - radio lines: galaxies Abstract: We present the first interferometric 12CO (J=1->0) map of the entire Hα disk of M33. The 13" diameter synthesized beam corresponds to a linear resolution of 50pc, sufficient to distinguish individual giant molecular clouds (GMCs). From these data we generated a catalog of 148 GMCs with an expectation that no more than 15 of the sources are spurious. The catalog is complete down to GMC masses of 1.5x105M and contains a total mass of 2.3x107M. Description: Observations were made with the BIMA array in its most compact ("D") configuration at various times between 1999 August and 2000 October. File Summary: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FileName Lrecl Records Explanations -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ReadMe 80 . This file table1.dat 75 148 Summary of Cloud Parameters for HCRO Observations -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- See also: J/PASP/111/685 : HII regions of M33. II. (Hodge+, 1999) Byte-by-byte Description of file: table1.dat -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bytes Format Units Label Explanations -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1- 3 A3 --- n_[EPR2003] [VSC ] VSC for Velocity Selected Clouds 5- 7 I3 --- [EPR2003] Sequential number 9- 10 I2 h RAh Right ascension (J2000) 12- 13 I2 min RAm Right ascension (J2000) 15- 18 F4.1 s RAs Right ascension (J2000) 20 A1 --- DE- Declination sign (J2000) 21- 22 I2 deg DEd Declination (J2000) 24- 25 I2 arcmin DEm Declination (J2000) 27- 30 F4.1 arcsec DEs Declination (J2000) 32- 38 F7.2 km/s VCO CO velocity 40- 45 F6.1 km/s VHI HI velocity 47- 53 F7.3 --- (VCO-VHI)/sHI (VCO-VHI)/σHI ratio 55- 58 F4.1 10+4solMass MCO CO mass 60- 63 F4.1 10+4solMass MCOc Corrected CO mass 65- 68 F4.1 km/s VFWHM FWHM velocity 70- 75 F6.1 [---] lnNP Likelihood measure (1) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Note (1): Likelihood measure, where P is the probability that this spectrum is a noise fluctuation and N s the number of statistically independent ways in which n adjacent channels can be selected from the data cube. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- History: From electronic version of the journal
(End) James Marcout, Patricia Bauer [CDS] 19-Dec-2003
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