A CO Survey of the Entire Northern Sky

We present a very large extension of the Galactic plane CO survey of Dame et al. to the entire northern sky (delta > -17 degrees). The extension was carried out with the same telescope as was used for the plane survey, the CfA 1.2 m, and perfectly meshes with its irregular boundaries in latitude. A total of 382,202 CO(1-0) spectra uniformly sample the high-latitude sky with a true-angle spacing of 0.degrees 25 or better. The final reduced and folded spectra have a uniform sensitivity of 0.18 K in 0.65 km s(-1) channels and provide a velocity coverage of +/- 47.1 km s(-1). We describe the observational techniques and the data reduction and provide various summary maps of the spatial and velocity distributions of CO emission over the northern sky, and a catalog of the molecular clouds we found there. We also describe the CO spectral line data cubes that we have made available online.