===== Extragalactic Detection of CO+ =====

A. Fuente, S. García-Burillo, M. Gerin, J. R. Rizzo, A. Usero, D. Teyssier, E. Roueff, and J. Le Bourlot\\
**[[https://doi.org/10.1086/503605|Detection of CO<sup>+</sup> in the Nucleus of M82]]**,\\
//Astrophys. J.// **641**, L105–L108 (2006).

Source(s): M82\\
Facility: IRAM 30 m

Comments:\\
Two fine structure components of the //N// = 2 – 1 transition have been detected at 235789.64 and 236062.55 GHz, respectively.\\
A tentative detection of the //N// = 1 – 0 fs components had been recorded few years earlier by:\\
A. Fuente, J. H. Black, J. Martín-Pintado, A. Rodríguez-Franco, S. García-Burillo, P. Planesas, and J. Lindholm\\
**[[https://doi.org/10.1086/317879|Tentative Detection of CO<sup>+</sup> toward Cygnus A]]**,\\
//Astrophys. J.// **545**, L113–L116 (2000).


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Contributor(s): H. S. P. Müller, 07/2010

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