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Interferometric observations of molecular clouds in M31 and M33 are presented. We detected clouds with properties : brightness, line width, size, mass and association with massive star forming regions, similar to those of galactic giant molecular clouds. The application of the virial theorem indicates that the NH2/WCO ratio in M31 and M33 is comparable to the Galactic value.
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Boulanger, F., Vogel, S.N., Viallefond, F., Ball, R. (1988). Giant molecular clouds in M31 and M33. In: Dickman, R.L., Snell, R.L., Young, J.S. (eds) Molecular Clouds in the Milky Way and External Galaxies. Lecture Notes in Physics, vol 315. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-50438-9_314
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