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Probing the AU-Scale Structure of Molecular Clouds

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

Alan P. Marscher
Affiliation:
Department of Astronomy, Boston University, 725 Commonwealth Ave., Boston, MA 02215
Thomas M. Bania
Affiliation:
Department of Astronomy, Boston University, 725 Commonwealth Ave., Boston, MA 02215
Zhong Wang
Affiliation:
IPAC, 100-22, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125

Abstract

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Monitoring absorption lines in the radio spectra of compact extragalactic sources that lie behind local molecular clouds provides a method for exploring the AU-scale structure of the foreground clouds.

Type
3. Astronomical Results and Prospects
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 1994

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