The Millimeter Astronomy Legacy Team 90??GHz (MALT90) Pilot Survey

Jonathan B Foster; James M Jackson; Peter J Barnes; Elizabeth Barris; Kate Brooks; Maria Cunningham; Susanna C Finn; Gary A Fuller; Steve N Longmore; Joshua L Mascoop; Nicolas Peretto; Jill Rathborne; Patricio Sanhueza; Frédéric Schuller; Friedrich Wyrowski

doi:10.1088/0067-0049/197/2/25

The Millimeter Astronomy Legacy Team 90??GHz (MALT90) Pilot Survey

Jonathan B Foster, James M Jackson, Peter J Barnes, Elizabeth Barris, Kate Brooks, Maria Cunningham, Susanna C Finn, Gary A Fuller, Steve N Longmore, Joshua L Mascoop, Nicolas Peretto, Jill Rathborne, Patricio Sanhueza, Frédéric Schuller, Friedrich Wyrowski

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We describe a pilot survey conducted with the Mopra 22??m radio telescope in preparation for the Millimeter Astronomy Legacy Team Survey at 90??GHz (MALT90). We identified 182 candidate dense molecular clumps using six different selection criteria and mapped each source simultaneously in 16 different lines near 90??GHz. We present a summary of the data and describe how the results of the pilot survey shaped the design of the larger MALT90 survey. We motivate our selection of target sources for the main survey based on the pilot detection rates and demonstrate the value of mapping in multiple lines simultaneously at high spectral resolution.

Original language	English
Article number	25
Journal	The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series
Volume	197
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1088/0067-0049/197/2/25
Publication status	Published - 1 Dec 2011

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Foster, J. B., Jackson, J. M., Barnes, P. J., Barris, E., Brooks, K., Cunningham, M., Finn, S. C., Fuller, G. A., Longmore, S. N., Mascoop, J. L., Peretto, N., Rathborne, J., Sanhueza, P., Schuller, F., & Wyrowski, F. (2011). The Millimeter Astronomy Legacy Team 90??GHz (MALT90) Pilot Survey. The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, 197(2), Article 25. https://doi.org/10.1088/0067-0049/197/2/25

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