Abstract
Calculations are presented of the emission spectrum of rotationally and vibrationally excited carbon monoxide in shocked interstellar molecular clouds. The calculations are based upon hydrodynamical shock models that include the effects of magnetically driven ion-neutral streaming. They incorporate a variety of collision processes that produce excited CO molecules, including H/sub 2/--CO collisions. The effects of photon trapping on the emission and excitation are included by means of a Sobolev-like approximation. Intensities are given for lines emitted from levels with J or approx. =35 km s/sup -1/ shocks in n/sub d/H = 10/sup 6/ cm/sup -3/ clouds.
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