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Table 2

Physical properties of the emitting and absorbing layers along the ring of RCW 120 from CO (3 →2).

Background Foreground
Region (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) (9) (10) (11)
A τCO, bg NCO,bg LCO,bg τCO, fg NCO,fg LCO,fg
(pc2) (1018 cm−2) (1021 cm−2) (M) (L) (1018 cm−2) (1021 cm−2) (M) (L)

Cluster 1 9.9 9.0 0.4 4.3 685.0 2.5 1.7 0.2 1.8 284.0 0.1
Cluster 2 6.2 23.4 0.9 10.5 1035.0 2.0 1.7 0.2 1.8 180.0 0.1
Cluster 3 15.7 4.0 0.2 2.2 561.0 3.5 1.9 0.2 1.9 491.0 0.2
Cluster 4 11.2 1.4 0.1 0.9 169.0 1.7 2.4 0.1 1.7 310.0 0.1
Cluster 5 6.3 9.5 0.4 5.0 510.0 1.9 1.8 0.2 2.0 205.0 0.1

Notes. (1) Cluster size of the regions defined by the GMM. (2), (7) CO (3 →2) peak opticaldepth. (3), (8) CO column density, determined using Eq. (22). (4), (9) Molecular hydrogen column density, using CO/H2 = 8.5 × 10−5 (Tielens 2010). (5), (10) Molecular hydrogen mass of the layers. (6), (11) Luminosity for the background and foreground layers.

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