Full disc [CII] mapping of nearby star-forming galaxies: SOFIA FIFI/LS observations of NGC 3627, NGC 4321, and NGC 6946

I. Kovačić, A. T. Barnes, F. Bigiel +20

As a major cooling line of interstellar gas, the far-infrared 158 μm line from singly ionised carbon [CII] is an important tracer of various components of the interstellar medium…