{"paper":{"title":"Discovery of a distant molecular cloud in the extreme outer Galaxy with the Nobeyama 45-m telescope","license":"http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/","headline":"","cross_cats":[],"primary_cat":"astro-ph.GA","authors_text":"Akihiko Hirota, Chikako Yasui, Hiroyuki Mito, Hiroyuki Nakanishi, Kazufumi Torii, Masao Saito, Mitsuhiro Matsuo, Naoto Kobayashi, Nario Kuno, Takashi Hasegawa, Tetsuhiro Minamidani, Tomoka Tosaki, Tsuyoshi Sawada","submitted_at":"2017-03-29T18:00:01Z","abstract_excerpt":"We report the discovery of the molecular cloud whose kinematic distance is the largest in the Galaxy at the present moment, named G213.042$+$0.003, at $l =$ 213.042$^\\circ$ and $b =$ 0.003$^\\circ$ in the $^{12}$CO($J =$ 1-0) line using the Nobeyama 45-m telescope and a multi-beam receiver BEARS. This molecular cloud is located at the heliocentric distance of 21$_{-7}^{+12}$ kpc and Galactocentric distance of 29$_{-7}^{+12}$ kpc, which are estimated as the kinematic distances with the Galactic parameters obtained by Reid et al. (2014, ApJ, 783, 130). Its major and minor diameters and line width"},"claims":{"count":0,"items":[],"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"source":{"id":"1703.10163","kind":"arxiv","version":1},"verdict":{"id":null,"model_set":{},"created_at":null,"strongest_claim":"","one_line_summary":"","pipeline_version":null,"weakest_assumption":"","pith_extraction_headline":""},"references":{"count":0,"sample":[],"resolved_work":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57","internal_anchors":0},"formal_canon":{"evidence_count":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"author_claims":{"count":0,"strong_count":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"builder_version":"pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1"}