Using a waveguide-type sideband-separating receiver (2SB receiver) on the Tokyo-NRO 60-cm telescope (renamed the AMANOGAWA telescope), we carried out simultaneous observations in the 12CO(J = 2-1) and 13CO(J = 2-1) lines over the Galactic plane l = 10-245 deg along b = 0 deg with a 3.75 arcmin grid. Using the 12CO(J = 1-0) data of Dame et al. (2001), who used a beam size almost the same as ours, we show 12CO(J = 2-1)/12CO(J = 1-0) and 13CO(J = 2-1)/12CO(J = 2-1) intensity ratios on the l-v map and the intensity correlations among the three lines. As a result, a linear correlation between 12CO(J = 1-0) and 12CO(J = 2-1) and a curve correlation between 12CO(J = 2-1) and 13CO(J = 2-1), as produced by most of the data, are found. We investigate these correlations with simple radiative transfer equations to ascertain a number of restrictions on the physical quantities of molecular gas on a galactic scale.
@article{arxiv.1101.3547,
title = {The AMANOGAWA-2SB Galactic Plane Survey I: Data on the Galactic Equator},
author = {Takahiro Yoda and Toshihiro Handa and Kotaro Kohno and Taku Nakajima and Masahiro Kaiden and Yoshinori Yonekura and Hideo Ogawa and Jun-ichi Morino and Kazuhito Dobashi},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1101.3547},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
22 pages, 13 figures, accepted for publication in PASJ