Project Description:

The CO Multi-line Imaging of Nearby Galaxies (COMING) project is one of legacy projects using a new multi-beam FOREST (four-beam receiver system on the 45 m telescope).

Where and how did stars form in galaxies? This question must be answered for a full understanding of the star formation process in galaxies.

Since stars form in molecular clouds, CO observations that trace molecular gas are necessary. However, CO imaging observations covering an entire galaxy have not been performed extensively, and our knowledge of the spatially resolved physical conditions of molecular gas has been limited.

The situation strongly motivated us to conduct multi-CO line mapping observations for more than 200 galaxies. We observed nearby galaxies with the Nobeyama 45-m radio telescope in 12CO J=1-0 in On-The-Fly mode.

The final observed sample consists of about 130 galaxies because of the long delay in setting up the instrument.

Acknowledgement Information:

When you publish an academic paper using the data obtained with the 45-m telescope of the Nobeyama Radio Observatory, we appreciate if you include one of the following sentences in the main text, in the acknowledgement, or in the footnote in your paper:

"based on observations at the Nobeyama Radio Observatory (NRO)" (in the main text),

"Nobeyama Radio Observatory is a branch of the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, National Institutes of Natural Sciences.",

or

"The 45-m radio telescope is operated by the Nobeyama Radio Observatory, a branch of the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan."

Furthermore, please include the project specific acknowledgement statement.

https://astro3.sci.hokudai.ac.jp/~radio/coming/data/

After you retrieved the data with JVO portal and when you find it helpful for your research work, the following acknowledgment would be appreciated:

"[Part of] the data were retrieved from the JVO portal (http://jvo.nao.ac.jp/portal/) operated by ADC/NAOJ."

News

• 2019-11-21: Features update. Functionality for searching image data taken by other facilities was added. Try to click the "VO Crawler DB" button.
• 2019-10-03: Data update. Data of 19 galaxies were updated. New data of 15 galaxies were added. See ChangeLog for more detail.