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A 158μm [CII] Map of NGC 6946: Detection in Extragalactic Atomic and Ionized Gas

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 August 2017

S. C. Madden ,
N. Geis ,
R. Genzel ,
F. Herrmann ,
A. Poglitsch ,
J. Jackson ,
G. J. Stacey  and
C. H. Townes
S. C. Madden
Affiliation:
Max-Planck Inst. für extraterrestrische Physik, Garching, FRG
N. Geis
Affiliation:
Max-Planck Inst. für extraterrestrische Physik, Garching, FRG
R. Genzel
Affiliation:
Max-Planck Inst. für extraterrestrische Physik, Garching, FRG
F. Herrmann
Affiliation:
Max-Planck Inst. für extraterrestrische Physik, Garching, FRG
A. Poglitsch
Affiliation:
Max-Planck Inst. für extraterrestrische Physik, Garching, FRG
J. Jackson
Affiliation:
Dept. of Astronomy, Boston U., Boston, MA
G. J. Stacey
Affiliation:
Dept. of Physics, U. C. Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
C. H. Townes
Affiliation:
Dept. of Physics, U. C. Berkeley, Berkeley, CA

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The first observations of the [CII] line toward the nuclei of gas-rich external galaxies, showed that the far-infrared line emission contributes up to 1% of the total luminosity and most likely originates from dense photon-dominated regions (PDRs) associated with the surfaces of molecular clouds exposed to FUV from external or embedded OB stars (Crawford et al. 1985, Lugten et al. 1986, Stacey et al. 1991). We have mapped the [CII] emission toward NGC 6946 over an 8' × 6' (23 × 17 kpc) (Madden et al. 1991) using the Max-Planck Instutute/U.C.Berkeley Far-Infrared Imaging Fabry-Perot Interferometer (FIFI) on the Kuiper Airborne Observatory (KAO).

Type
External Galaxies
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 150: Astrochemistry of Cosmic Phenomena , 1992 , pp. 117 - 119
Copyright
Copyright © Kluwer 1992 

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