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\centerline{\bf NRAO CD-ROM IMAGE SUBMISSION FORM}

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\noindent Image Donor(s): Thomas Dame and Patrick Thaddeus

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\noindent Contact donor: Thomas Dame

Mailing address: Center for Astrophysics
                 60 Garden Street, Mail Stop 72
                 Cambridge, MA 02138

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Telephone: (617) 495-7334

E-mail address: Dame@CFA (BITNET); Dame@CFA.HARVARD.EDU (INTERNET)

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\noindent Source or Image Name: Composite CO Survey of the Milky Way

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\noindent Description of Observation: (e.g., date of observation,
telescope(s) used, frequencies, polarization type, resolution, 
deconvolution method) 

Sixteen separate surveys of the $J = 1 \rightarrow 0$ transition of CO 
at 115 GHz, obtained with nearly identical 1.2 m telescopes in New York City
and on Cerro Tololo, Chile, are combined into a complete survey of the
Milky Way.  Differences in calibration, sampling, and resolution were
resolved, and all data were placed on a uniform grid with $0^&\circ5$
spacing in Galactic longitude and latitude, and 1.3 km s$^{-1}$ spacing
in velocity.

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\noindent Description of Image: (e.g., type of source, scientific reason
for observing, notable source features)

The composite CO survey is contained in 720 latitude-velocity maps,
for longitude $0^\circ$ to $359.5^\circ$, spaced every $0.5^\circ$.
To simplify the construction of data cubes, the latitude and velocity limits
for all 720 maps are identical:  from $-25^\circ$ to $+25^\circ$ in
latitude and from $-299.7$ to $+299.7$ km s$^{-1}$ in velocity.
The 720 $(b,~v)$ maps are followed by a single longitude-latitude
map of the survey integrated over all velocities (Figure 2 from
Dame {\it et al.} 1987).

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\noindent Publication Reference(s): Dame, T. M., Ungerechts, H., Cohen, R. S., 
de Geus, E. J., Grenier, I. A., May, J., Murphy, D. C., Nyman, L.-A., and
Thaddeus, P., ApJ, 322, 706

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\noindent Permission is granted to NRAO/AUI to use, distribute, sell, reproduce
or authorize others to use, distribute, sell or reproduce the
images listed above without reservation or restriction.  The donor
whose signature appears below agrees to inform all co-authors of this
release.

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\noindent Signed:

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\noindent Date: 5/22/91

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