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The Equilibrium State Of Molecular Regions In The Outer Galaxy, Mh Heyer, Jm Carpenter, Ronald L. Snell

Astronomy Department Faculty Publication Series

A summary of global properties and an evaluation of the equilibrium state of molecular regions in the outer Galaxy are presented from the decomposition of the FCRAO Outer Galaxy Survey and targeted ¹²CO and ¹³CO observations of four giant molecular cloud complexes. The ensemble of identified objects includes both small, isolated clouds and clumps within larger cloud complexes. The ¹²CO luminosity function and size distribution of a subsample of objects with well-defined distances are determined such that ΔN/ΔL_CO = L and ΔN/Δr_e = r. ¹²CO velocity dispersions …