The NRO Star Formation Legacy Project is a large project to make wide-field molecular line maps of nearby star-forming regions at 25 arcsecond resolution using the Nobeyama 45-m radio telescope.

The target regions are (1) Orion A, (2) Aquila Rift, and (3) M17 SWex molecular cloud complexes. More than 1 square degree area of each target cloud were mapped with the newly-developed 100 GHz-band 4-beam dual-polarization receiver (FOREST, from 2014), 25-beam single-polarization receiver (BEARS), and single beam dual-polarization TZ receiver. The powerful new receiver FOREST is particularly well suited for conducting large-scale mapping observations.

The current project is an extension of the previous NRO Star Formation Project (PI; Ryohei Kawabe, 2007-2011) in which we mapped several nearby star-forming regions, such as Orion A, L1551, and Rho Ophiuchus molecular clouds, mainly in 12CO using BEARS.

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