The Five College Radio Astronomy Observatory CO Survey of the Outer Galaxy

Abstract

Images from the FCRAO CO Survey of the Outer Galaxy and a description of the calibration and processing of the data are presented. The survey is comprised of 1,696,80012CO J = 1-0 spectra sampled every 50'' between Galactic longitudes 10249 and 14154 and latitudes -303 and 541. The VLSR ranges from -153 to +40 km s-1 sampled every 0.81 km s-1 with a velocity resolution of 0.98 km s-1. The survey provides the highest spatial dynamic range imaging of the molecular interstellar medium ever obtained. We describe the observing procedure and characterize the random and systematic noise of the survey.