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Results of the ESO-SEST Key Programme on CO in the Magellanic Clouds. IX. The giant LMC HII region complex N11 | | F.P. Israel
; Th. de Graauw
; L.E.B. Johansson
; R.S. Booth
; F. Boulanger
; G. Garay
; M.L. Kutner
; J. Lequeux
; L.-A. Nyman
; M. Rubio
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20 Nov 2002 | | Journal: | Astron.Astrophys. 401 (2003) 99-112 | | Subject: | astro-ph | | Affiliation: | Sterrewacht Leiden, NL), Th. de Graauw (SRON Groningen, NL), L.E.B. Johansson, R.S. Booth (OSO Onsala, Sweden), F. Boulanger (ENS and IAS, Paris, F), G. Garay (Univ. de Chile Santiago, Chile), M.L. Kutner (Univ. of Texas, USA), J. Lequeux (Obs. de Pari | | Abstract: | We present maps and a catalogue containing the J=1-0 12CO parameters of 29 individual molecular clouds in the second-brightest LMC star formation complex, N11. In the southwestern part of N11, molecular clouds occur in a ring or shell surrounding the major OB star association LH9. In the northeastern part, a chain of molecular clouds delineates the rim of one of the so-called supergiant shells in the LMC. The well-defined clouds have dimensions close to those of the survey beam (diameters of 25 pc or less). Some of the clouds were also observed in J=2-1 12CO, and in the lower two transitions of 13CO. Clouds mapped with a twice higher angular resolution in J=2-1 12CO show substructure with dimensions once again comparable to those of the mapping beam. The few clouds for which we could model physical parameters have fairly warm (T(kin) = 60 - 150 K) and moderately dense (n(H2) = 3000 cm-3) gas. The northeastern chain of CO clouds, although lacking in diffuse intercloud emission, is characteristic of the more quiescent regions of the LMC and appears to have been subject to relatively little photo-processing. The clouds forming part of the southwestern shell or ring, however, are almost devoid of diffuse intercloud emission and also exhibit other characteristics of an extreme photon-dominated region (PDR). | | Source: | arXiv, astro-ph/0211450 | | Services: | Forum | Review | PDF | Favorites | |
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