Submitted to Ap J L Gas Density, Stability and Starbursts Near the Inner Lindblad Resonance of the Milky Way

• Main Authors: Antony A. Stark, Christopher L. Martin, Wilfred M. Walsh, Kecheng Xiao, Adair P. Lane, Christopher K. Walker
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2004
• Subjects: Subject headings; Galaxy; structure—ISM; clouds—ISM; molecules—galaxies; Antarctic; The Antarctic; Milky Way; Antarc*
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.337.5674; http://arxiv.org/pdf/astro-ph/0405330v1.pdf

A key project of the Antarctic Submillimeter Telescope and Remote Observatory reported by Martin et al. (2004) is the mapping of CO J = 4 → 3 and J = 7 → 6 emission from the inner Milky Way, allowing determination of gas density and temperature. Galactic center gas that Binney et al. (1991) identify...