EAS Publications Series

Table of Contents - 2008 - Volume 31, Far-Infrared Workshop 2007  

Research Article

Submillimeter line emission from LMC N159W: a dense, clumpy PDR in a low metallicity environment

Far-Infrared Workshop 2007, Bad Honnef, Germany.

J.L. Pinedaa1, N. Mizunoa2, J. Stutzkia3, M. Cubicka3 and the NANTEN2 collaboration

a1 Argelander Institut für Astronomie, Bonn, Germany

a2 Department of Astrophysics, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan

a3 KOSMA, I. Physikalisches Institut, Universität zu Köln, Germany

Abstract

We present high-angular resolution (10 pc) sub-millimeter observations of the N159W region in the LMC obtained with the NANTEN2 telescope. We observed the 12CO J = 4 → 3, J = 7 → 6, 13CO J = 4 → 3 rotational and the [C i] 609 μm and [C i] 370 μm fine-structure transitions toward this region. We detected the [C i] 370 μm and 13CO J = 4 → 3 transitions for the first time in the LMC.

(Online publication October 4 2008)