¹²CO ﹩J=2\rightarrow 1﹩, ¹³CO ﹩J=2\rightarrow 1﹩, and ¹³CO ﹩J=1\rightarrow 0﹩ integrated intensity of the M17 giant molecular cloud, measured in the hybrid temperature scale described in § 2 over the velocity range 10–30 km s⁻¹. The (0, 0) position corresponds to ﹩\alpha ( 1950) =1﹩8^h17^m21﹩\fs﹩0, ﹩\delta ( 1950) =-1﹩6°06^{﹩\arcmin﹩} 45^{﹩\arcsec﹩}, and the peak of the photon‐dominated region M17 SW lies at offset (2, −6). The contour levels are 5%, 10%, 15%, 20%, 30%, 40%, 50%, 60%, 70%, 80%, and 90% of the map peak intensity. (a) The ¹²CO ﹩J=2\rightarrow 1﹩ integrated intensity map. Spectra were obtained in a 22^{﹩\arcsec﹩} beam and sampled on a 2^{﹩\arcmin﹩} grid, shown as dots in the figure. The map was produced by interpolating the original data onto a 30^{﹩\arcsec﹩} grid using a bicubic spline algorithm. The map peak intensity is 639 K km s⁻¹, about 7% higher than the peak intensity measured in the 22^{﹩\arcsec﹩} JCMT beam. (b) The ¹³CO ﹩J=2\rightarrow 1﹩ integrated intensity map. The map was produced in the same manner as the ¹²CO map. The map peak intensity is 233 K km s⁻¹, about 10% higher than the peak intensity measured in the 22^{﹩\arcsec﹩} JCMT beam. (c) The ¹³CO ﹩J=1\rightarrow 0﹩ integrated intensity map. Spectra were obtained in a 47^{﹩\arcsec﹩} beam sampled on a 25^{﹩\arcsec﹩} grid. The data were smoothed to 1^{﹩\arcmin﹩} resolution in producing the final map. The map peak intensity is 126 K km s⁻¹. Note the good correspondence in the large‐scale structures between the undersampled ﹩J=2\rightarrow 1﹩ maps and this nearly fully sampled map.