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Table 3

Telescope parameters for all lines referred to in this paper.

Transition Frequency Telescope θ
[GHz] []

CO (1 → 0) 115.271 IRAM 21.4
NRAO 55
OSO 33
SEST 45
CO (2 → 1) 230.538 APEX 27
CSO 30
IRAM 10.7
JCMT 21
SEST 23
CO (3 → 2) 345.796 APEX 18
CSO 20
JCMT 14
SEST 15
CO (4 → 3) 461.041 APEX 14
CSO 15.5
JCMT 12
CO (5 → 4) 576.268 HIFI 36.1
CO (6 → 5) 691.473 CSO 10.3
HIFI 30.4
JCMT 8
CO (7 → 6) 806.652 APEX 7.7
CO (9 → 8) 1036.912 HIFI 20.1
CO (10 → 9) 1151.985 HIFI 18.2
CO (14 → 13) 1611.794 HIFI 12.9
CO (16 → 15) 1841.345 HIFI 11.5

Notes. APEX is the Atacama Pathfinder Experiment; CSO is the Caltech Submillimeter Observatory; IRAM refers to the 30 m telescope at the Institut de Radioastronomie Millimétrique; JCMT is the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope; HIFI is the Heterodyne Instrument for the Far-Infrared aboard Herschel; NRAO refers to the 12 m telescope at the (US) National Radio Astronomy Observatory; OSO is the 20 m telescope at the Onsala Space Observatory; SEST is the Swedish-ESO submillimetre telescope.

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