Averaged spectrum of the SOFIA/GREAT [CII] data (blue), with the ancillary CO (red) and HI (yellow) spectra.
Averaged spectrum of SOFIA/GREAT [CII] data
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Averaged spectrum of the SOFIA/GREAT [CII] data (blue), with the ancillary CO (red) and HI (yellow) spectra. We decomposed the [CII] profile by fitting a combination of the CO and HI spectra shown in black, revealing that the [CII] originates from the molecular and atomic gas about equally.

Credit
Tarantino et al. 2021
Image Number
SCI2022_0005