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The virial mass of the cloud is calculated from the radius and line width of the molecular cloud: $M_{\mathrm{vir}} = 5 \sigma^2 R/G$. Comparing the virial and luminous masses gives insight to the dynamical nature of the molecular clouds identified in the data. The average surface density is calculated from the luminous mass $\Sigma = M_{\mathrm{lum}}/(\pi R^2)$. Typical uncertainties are 0.2 dex in the velocity dispersion and line width and 0.3 dex in the mass estimates (both virial and luminous), though these errors grow when the signal to noise approaches the $4\sigma$ threshold.
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adopt a mass completeness limit of $M_{\mathrm{min}}=3\times only include clouds in our final analysis with $M>3\times 10^{5}~M_{\odot}$, corresponding formally to a $50\sigma$ aggregate detection of a molecular cloud. This is a factor of $\sim 8$ larger than the minimum mass that would be admitted by our masking procedure, but represents a conservative treatment of the spatial filtering artifacts in the center of the galaxy, which makes cloud identification less certain.