[mmaimcal] distant Milky Way?

[Bryan Butler]

>Are there model
>atmospheres for hot protoplanets?  This thing should, I think, be
>0.1 mJy in the submm.  Beyond existing instruments, but seconds for the
>MMA.  Then might not we have a good chance at pressure broadened warm
>water, perhaps ammonia or other molecules?  Which ones?  Who would know?

there is a group at UofA treating this very carefully - burrows, lunine,
hubbard and cohorts (and marley at nmsu).  i've been thinking about it
in the context of trying to see mased lines with the VLA...  there are
several publications by this group on the subject.  i think a good place
to look for candidate lines is in a paper by the french group who considered
lines you could see from jupiter if you had the right instrument.

rustle, rustle...  ah, here it is:

Lellouch et al.  A&A, v140, p405.

considering looking for NH3, PH3, HCN, CO, CH3D, H2O, 15NH3...

if you took the atmospheric model of burrows and co. and did something
like lellouch et al. did for jupiter, you might have something real...

	-b