{"paper":{"title":"Analytical Methods for Measuring the Parameters of Interstellar Gas Using the Data of Methanol Observations","license":"http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/","headline":"","cross_cats":["astro-ph.IM"],"primary_cat":"astro-ph.GA","authors_text":"S.Kurtz, S.V.Kalenskii","submitted_at":"2017-10-20T16:56:26Z","abstract_excerpt":"We analyze methanol excitation in the absence of external radiation and consider LTE methods for probing interstellar gas. We show that rotation diagrams correctly estimate the gas kinetic temperature only if they are built from lines with the upper levels located in the same K-ladders, such as the J_0-J_{-1}E lines at 157~GHz, the J_1-J_0E lines at 165~GHz or the J_2-J_1E lines at 25~GHz. The gas density should be no less than 10^7~cm^{-3}. Rotation diagrams built from lines with different K values of the upper levels (2_K-1_K at 96~GHz, 3_K-2_K at 145~GHz, or 5_K-4_K at 241~GHz) significantl"},"claims":{"count":0,"items":[],"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"source":{"id":"1710.07605","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"}