Speaker
Dr
Paul Jones
(UNSW)
Description
In this presentation I describe how automated data processing techniques can be used to interpret the many wide-field, high-resolution, large multi-molecular-line datasets that now exist.
I will also discuss how these techniques have been used to analyse the CSIRO CASS Mopra telescope millimetre-wave large surveys of the G333 and Vela C molecular clouds.
I will show how the Mopra surveys have allowed us to determine which molecules respectively trace the turbulent and gravitationally bound components of the interstellar medium, and show how comparing subsets of molecules, for example CS, N2H+, HCO+ and C2H, can be used to highlight star forming regions at different stages of development in these large datasets.
