We have mapped 17 deg2 region toward Galactic anticenter in 12CO J = 1 - 0 using the 3 mm SIS receiver on the 14 m telescope at Taeduk Radio Astronomy Observatory (TRAO). The region mapped in this paper is the first target of the Galactic AntiCenter CO Survey Project (GACCOS) and was selected comparing with IRAS Sky Survey Atlas (ISSA) images at 100 μm. Molecular emission of the target area is found to be very extended and is well matching with the FIR emission boundary. There are several pieces of clouds, and as some of spectra show several peaks, there seem to be several clouds overlapped in some directions. The Velocity of Local Standard of Rest (VLSR) of the CO emission of the mapped region ranges from -20 to +10 km/s. It is also found that the two cloudlets located around I = 180° have VLSR = -20 km/s, which is very abnormal. The peak antenna temperature of 13 K arises near the H II Region S241.

Based on the database of 128 disk galaxies (66 SO, 62 S and Irr) mailnly compiled from Kent and Gunn (1982) and Doi et a1.(1995) which is complete down to m < 15.6 mag within a radius of 3°, the orientation of spin vectors of disk galaxies of the Coma cluster has been analyzed. The results confirm the morphological dependence of the orientation of disk galaxies found from the analsis of the Virgo cluster. Common features of orientation of disk galaxies of both clusters are outlined.

Much of our knowledge about the formation and evolution of high-redshift galaxies has come from studying the absorption signatures they impress on the spectra of background QSOs. The damped Lyman α (DLA) systems, in particular, have proved to be valuable probes of the metallicity and dust at redshifts z ~2-3 in what are the likely progenitors of galaxies like our own. At z ~ 2 we find that the typical metallicity of the universe was 1/15 solar. In addition, we find clear evidence for the existence of trace amounts of interstellar dust in DLA galaxies and show that this is consistent with recent high resolution spectra of DLAs with the Keck telescope, despite claims to the contrary.