Results of the ESO-SEST Key Programme: CO in the Magellanic Clouds. V. Further CO observations of the Small Magellanic Cloud ^*

¹ Departamento de Astronomía , Universidad de Chile, Casilla 36-D, Santiago, Chile
² Radioastronomie, Ecole Normale Superieure, 24 Rue Lhomond, 75231 Paris Cedex 05, France
³ DEMIRM, Observatoire de Paris, 61 Av. de l'Observatoire, 75014 Paris, France
⁴ Institut d'Astrophysique Spatiale, Bat. 120, Université de Paris-XI, 91045 Orsay cedex, France
⁵ Onsala Space Observatory, S-43900 Onsala, Sweden
⁶ Laboratorium voor Ruimteonderzoek, SRON, Postbus 800, NL-9700 AV Groningen, The Netherlands
⁷ Sterrewacht, Postbus 9513, NL-2300 Leiden, The Netherlands
⁸ European Southern Observatory, Casilla 19001, Santiago 19, Chile
⁹ Department of Physics, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY 12180, U.S.A.
¹⁰ NRAO, 949 N. Cherry Av., Campus Building 65, Tucson , Arizona 85721-0655, U.S.A.

Send offprint request to: J. Lequeux

Received: 9 September 1995
Accepted: 3 January 1996

Abstract

We present further results of fully-sampled observations in the and rotational transitions of and , obtained with the SEST telescope at 43″ or 22″ resolution, toward the Small Magellanic Cloud. These observations concern six molecular clouds with a variety of physical conditions. Maps in the , and in some cases of lines are presented, as well as profiles of the four lines at the peak positions convolved to the same angular resolution of . The line ratio results are interpreted in Paper IV of this series (Lequeux et al. 1994).