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Over the past four years, Pat Thaddeus and I have been using the CfA 1.2 m telescope to carry out a new CO survey of the first Galactic quadrant with a sensitivity per solid angle 3-10 times higher than previous CO surveys of the plane, and 16 times higher than the only previous extensive wide-latitude survey (Dame et al. 1987). Since a preliminary purpose of this survey is the study of molecular gas out of the plane in the inner Galaxy, the observations have so far been confined mainly to several vertical strips across the plane covering a few degrees in Galactic longitude and 6°‐8° in Galactic latitude; details of this on-going survey are given in Dame & Thaddeus (1995).
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Dame, T.M. (1997). A Molecular Worm in Scutum. In: Latter, W.B., Radford, S.J.E., Jewell, P.R., Mangum, J.G., Bally, J. (eds) CO: Twenty-Five Years of Millimeter-Wave Spectroscopy. International Astronomical Union / Union Astronomique Internationale, vol 170. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-5414-7_3
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