A SPECTRAL LINE SURVEY OF SELECTED 3 MM BANDS TOWARD SAGITTARIUS B2(N-LMH) USING THE NRAO 12 METER RADIO TELESCOPE AND THE BIMA ARRAY II. DATA ANALYSIS
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2004
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Ohio State University
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We have analyzed the data from our 3 mm spectral line survey of the high mass star forming region Sagittarius $B2(N-LMH)^{b,c}$, covering 3.6 GHz of bandwidth, where we detected 218 lines (97 identified molecular transitions, one recombination line, and 120 unidentified lines). The analysis was done using rotation-temperature diagrams and amplitude distributions in the $u-\nu$ plane. These methods give insight into the rotation temperature and column density of each observed species as well as the distribution on the sky. From the distribution information we can infer potential formation mechanisms for these species as well as constrain possible identifications for the unidentified transitions.
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$^{a}$ Current address:NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Earth and Space Data Computing Division, Code 930, Greenbelt, MD 20771 $^{b}$ D. N. Friedel, L. E. Snyder, B. E. Turner, and A. Remijan, $58^{th}$ International Symposium on Molecular Spectroscopy, Talk FA03 (2003) $^{c}$ D. N. Friedel, L. E. Snyder, B. E. Turner, and A. Remijan, ApJ 600, 243 (2004)
Author Institution: Department of Astronomy, University of Illinois; Department of Astronomy, National Radio Astronomy Observatory; Department of Astronomy, University of Illinois
Author Institution: Department of Astronomy, University of Illinois; Department of Astronomy, National Radio Astronomy Observatory; Department of Astronomy, University of Illinois