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We have mapped the inner 360 regions of M51 in the 158micron [CII] line at 55 spatial resolution using the Far-infrared Imaging Fabry-Perot Interferometer (FIFI) on the Kuiper Airborne Observatory (KAO). The emission is peaked at the nucleus, but is detectable over the entire region mapped, which covers much of the optical disk of the galaxy. There are also two strong secondary peaks at ~43% to 70% of the nuclear value located roughly 120 to the north-east, and south-west of the nucleus. These secondary peaks are at the same distance from the nucleus as the corotation radius of the density wave pattern. The density wave also terminates at this location, and the outlying spiral structure is attributed to material clumping due to the interaction between M51 and NGC5195. This orbit crowding results in cloud-cloud collisions, stimulating star formation, that we see as enhanced [CII] line emission. The [CII] emission at the peaks originates mainly from photodissociation regions (PDRs) formed on the surfaces of molecular clouds that are exposed to OB starlight, so that these [CII] peaks trace star formation peaks in M51. The total mass of [CII] emitting photodissociated gas is ~2.6x10^{8} M_{sun}, or about 2% of the molecular gas as estimated from its CO(1-0) line emission. At the peak [CII] positions, the PDR gas mass to total gas mass fraction is somewhat higher, 3-17%, and at the secondary peaks the mass fraction of the [CII] emitting photodissociated gas can be as high as 72% of the molecular mass.... (continued)
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