Proceedings of the Workshop
"The Magellanic Clouds and Other Dwarf Galaxies"
of the Bonn/Bochum-Graduiertenkolleg

The first detection of H2 in absorption in the LMC

Philipp Richter, Klaas S. de Boer, Dominik J. Bomans,

Andreas Heithausen, and Jan Koornneef

 Fig. 1
Fig. 1. a Section of the echelle spectrum of LH 10:3120. H2 absorption lines from different rotation levels are visible. The markings indicate the transitions at 0 km s-1 (Milky Way) and 270 km s-1 (LMC).
b Population densities of the lowest 5 rotational levels. The high equivalent excitation temperature for J>0 is an indication for strong UV pumping
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