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Cocktails from the (DAW)n of Time – molecular line spectroscopy of the Interstellar Medium

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Molecular spectral lines have provided information about interstellar clouds for six and a half decades. Here we consider results of spectral line surveys made with the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope over the frequency range 455.1 to 507.4 Ghz. The targets of the surveys are the Orion core and the Galactic centre.

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  1. Centre for Astrophysics & Planetary Science, University of Kent, Canterbury, Kent, CT2 7NR, England

    G.J. White & G. MacDonald

  2. Astrophysics Group, The Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, Madingley Road, Cambridge, CB3 OHE, England

    G.J. White

  3. Stockholm Observatory, SE-133,36 Saltsjöbaden, Sweden; E-mail

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White, G., MacDonald, G. Cocktails from the (DAW)n of Time – molecular line spectroscopy of the Interstellar Medium. Astrophysics and Space Science 285, 801–824 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1026138032755

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