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The 4830 MHz Formaldehyde Absorption in a Region of the Southern Coalsack

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 April 2016

J. W. Brooks
Affiliation:
Division of Radiophysics, CSIRO, Sydney
M. W. Sinclair
Affiliation:
Division of Radiophysics, CSIRO, Sydney
Gwenyth A. Manefield
Affiliation:
Division of Radiophysics, CSIRO, Sydney

Extract

The detection of formaldehyde absorption of the microwave background radiation in a region of the Southern Coalsack (Sinclair and Brooks 1972) was made at about the same time as an optical study of this region (Tapia 1972) in which six globule-like clouds of interstellar dust were found. The size (0.3 pc) and position of the formaldehyde cloud were similar to the corresponding parameters of one of the globules (No. 2 on Tapia’s list).

Type
Interstellar Molecular Spectroscopy
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of Australia 1974

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