Detection of Carbon Monoxide in the Large Magellanic Cloud

P. J. Huggins, A. R. Gillespie, T. G. Phillips, F. F. Gardner, S. Knowles

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society · 1975 · 24 citations · 0 references

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CO emission at 2·6 mm has been detected in the region N159 of the Large Magellanic Cloud, using the 3·9-m Anglo-Australian Telescope. The molecular cloud observed is comparable in properties with those of large clouds in our Galaxy.