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Molecular Line Observations in the Large Magellanic Cloud

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 August 2017

F. F. Gardner*
Affiliation:
Division of Radiophysics, CSIRO, Sydney, Australia

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This is a preliminary report on on-going observing programs in the LMC using CSIRO facilities. Molecular-line observations made with the 64-m Parkes telescope include OH at 18 cm (Whiteoak & Gardner 1976b; Caswell & Haynes 1981), H2CO at 6 cm (Whiteoak & Gardner 1976a) CH at 9 cm (Whiteoak et al. 1980) and H2O at 1.3 cm with beamwidths between 13′ and 1′.7 arc; observations of HCO+ at 3.4 mm (Batchelor et al. 1981) and CO at 2.6 mm have been made with the 4-m Epping telescope.