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J/ApJ/599/1049    Supergiant molecular complexes in the Antennae (Wilson+, 2003)
The mass function of supergiant molecular complexes and implications for
forming young massive star clusters in the Antennae  (NGC 4038/4039).
    Wilson C.D., Scoville N., Madden S.C., Charmandaris V.
   <Astrophys. J., 599, 1049-1066 (2003)>
   =2003ApJ...599.1049W
ADC_Keywords: Molecular clouds ; Carbon monoxide ; Galaxies, radio

Keywords: galaxies: individual (NGC 4038, NGC 4039) - galaxies: ISM -
          ISM: molecules - radio lines: galaxies - stars: formation

Abstract:
    We have used previously published observations of the CO emission from
    the Antennae (NGC 4038/4039) to study the detailed properties of the
    supergiant molecular complexes with the goal of understanding the
    formation of young massive star clusters.

Description:
    The CO observations of the Antennae originally presented in Paper I
    (Wilson et al., 2000ApJ...542..120W) were obtained with the Caltech
    Millimeter Array between 1998 March and 1999 February.

File Summary:

       FileName      Lrecl  Records   Explanations

ReadMe            80        .   This file
table2.dat        47       86   Giant Molecular Complexes in the Antennae


See also:
   J/ApJ/561/727 : BVI photometry in the Antennae galaxies (Zhang+, 2001)
   J/AJ/109/960  : Young star clusters in The Antennae (Whitmore+ 1995)


Byte-by-byte Description of file: table2.dat

   Bytes Format Units      Label     Explanations

   1-  2  I2    ---       [WSM2003]  Cloud ID number assigned by CLFIND algorithm
       3  A1    ---     n_[WSM2003]  [c] Note on the cloud (1)
   5-  6  I2    h          RAh       Right ascension (J2000)
   8-  9  I2    min        RAm       Right ascension (J2000)
  11- 14  F4.1  s          RAs       Right ascension (J2000)
      16  A1    ---        DE-       Declination sign (J2000)
  17- 18  I2    deg        DEd       Declination (J2000)
  20- 21  I2    arcmin     DEm       Declination (J2000)
  23- 24  I2    arcsec     DEs       Declination (J2000)
  26- 30  F5.1  Jy.km/s    SCO       CO integrated intensity
  32- 34  F3.1  K          TB        Observed peak brightness temperature excess
                                     above the 2.74K cosmic background
  36- 39  I4    km/s       Vlsr      LSR velocity
  41- 42  I2    km/s       DVFWHM    Full-width half-maximum velocity
  44- 47  F4.1 10+7solMass Mmol      Molecular mass

Note (1): These clouds belong to the supergiant molecular complexes
     discussed in Paper I (Wilson et al., 2000ApJ...542..120W):
     - complexes 4 and 5 in SGMC 2
     - complexes 7, 8, and 9 in SGMC 4
     - complex 15 in SGMC 5
     - complexes 22 and 58 in a part of NGC 4039


History:
    From electronic version of the journal
(End)                         James Marcout, Patricia Bauer [CDS]    20-Feb-2004