Coffee at 7 pm usually isn't a problem...
- Dendrogram analysis of turbulent simulations. What do the structures look like? Mostly for visualization in a talk, but perhaps the start of a paper. Are the high-density substructures too small to collapse? Too hot?
- A deep GBT+AO observation of the center of the G49 40km/s cloud. Can we perform the same measurement as I did originally against a uniform backlight? Will that provide new information
- Corollary to 2: In simulations, what effect does a varying size and brightness backlight have on the inferred density?
- Measure the distance to the G49 cloud with NIR extinction. Keep working with Jonathan Foster on that...
- Test the Cepheid / RR Lyrae distance method on the G49 cloud. It's close enough that the targets should be bright. Start off with 1-hour pilot (DD?) on the most distant star with a "guaranteed" CO detection, then propose a longer project to begin using the bisector approach to determine its true distance.
- Eta Car ALMA. Basically, same thing, but now invoke the SN 1987A CO detection. Eta is the closer laboratory, and it must have similar shock physics...
- H3+ in the CMZ with Juergen. Talk to Tom Geballe about H3+ and CO absorption. Is it possible to measure CO absorption to red giants?