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Figure 2:
The region of the spiral arm in M 81 studied in the present
paper. Contours in all three panels are of the FUV emission, and
contour levels are
2.3, 3.1, 4.6, 6.2, 7.7, 9.2, 13.9, 18.5 and
erg cm-2 s-1 Å-1 arcsec-2. The contours
are overlaid on grey scale representations of the FUV ( left panel,
grey levels from 0.8 [light] to
erg cm-2 s-1 Å-1 arcsec-2 [dark]);
H
( middle panel; grey levels from 0.5 to
erg cm-2 s-1 arcsec-2); and H I ( right panel,
grey levels from 1.5 to
atoms cm-2). The
positions of our three most credible CO detections from our NRO
observations (B, C, and D in Fig. 3) are indicated in
each panel by open star symbols. Centre positions of the dust
filaments as measured by Kaufman et al. (1989) are indicated by the
line segments drawn in the middle panel. |