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Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-06-04 John H. Bieging , Shuo Kong

We aim to better understand the emission of molecular tracers of the diffuse and dense gas in giant molecular clouds and the influence that metallicity, optical extinction, density, far-UV field, and star formation rate have on these…

We present the ALMA survey of CO(2-1) emission from the 1/5 solar metallicity, Local Group dwarf galaxy NGC 6822. We achieve high (0.9 arcsec ~ 2 pc) spatial resolution while covering large area: four 250 pc x 250 pc regions that encompass…

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The nucleus of the Milky Way is known to drive a large-scale, multiphase galactic outflow, with gas phases ranging from the hot highly-ionized to the cold molecular component. In this work, we present the first systematic search for…

We present results from a study of molecular gas and dust in the vicinity of the Herbig Haro object HH2. Emission from the sub-mm continuum, 12CO and HCO+ was mapped with angular resolutions ranging from 14 arcsec to 5 arcsec (or 0.01pc at…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 W. R. F. Dent , R. S. Furuya , C. J. Davis

After the morphological classification of the 18,190 $^{12}$CO molecular clouds, we further investigate the properties of their internal molecular gas structures traced by the $^{13}$CO($J=$ 1$-$0) line emissions. Using three different…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-08-17 Lixia Yuan , Ji Yang , Fujun Du , Yang Su , Xunchuan Liu , Shaobo Zhang , Yan Sun , Xin Zhou , Qing-Zeng Yan , Yuehui Ma

High-velocity clouds (HVCs) are neutral or ionised gas clouds in the vicinity of the Milky Way that are characterised by high radial velocities inconsistent with participation in the regular rotation of the Galactic disc. Previous attempts…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-12-05 Tobias Westmeier

Some well-studied Herbig Haro objects have associated with them one or more cold, dense, and quiescent clumps of gas. We propose that such clumps near an HH object can be used as a general measure of clumpiness in the molecular cloud that…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-14 W. Whyatt , J. M. Girart , S. Viti , R. Estalella , D. A. Williams

This study developed an automated identification procedure for compact clouds with broad velocity widths in the spectral line data cubes of highly crowded regions. The procedure was applied to the CO J=3-2 line data, obtained using the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-09-27 Tomoharu Oka , Asaka Uruno , Rei Enokiya , Taichi Nakamura , Yuto Yamasaki , Yuto Watanabe , Sekito Tokuyama , Yuhei Iwata

Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer (FUSE) data is used to investigate the molecular hydrogen (H_2) content of intermediate-velocity clouds (IVCs) in the lower halo of the Milky Way. We analyze interstellar absorption towards 56 (mostly…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 P. Richter , B. P. Wakker , B. D. Savage , K. R. Sembach

The central kiloparsec region of the Andromeda galaxy is relatively gas poor, while the interstellar medium appears to be concentrated in a ring-like structure at about 10 kpc radius. The central gas depletion has been attributed to a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-12-16 A. -L. Melchior , F. Combes

We have searched for molecular gas in the cD galaxy of a poor cluster of galaxies AWM7 using Nobeyama 45 m telescope. We do not detect CO emission in the galaxy. Our limit of molecular gas in the inner 7.5 kpc is M_H_2< 4 x 10^8 M_sun. We…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Yutaka Fujita , Tomoka Tosaki , Akika Nakamichi , Nario Kuno

The mass of molecular gas in an interstellar cloud is often measured using line emission from low rotational levels of CO, which are sensitive to the CO mass, and then scaling to the assumed molecular hydrogen H_2 mass. However, a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-18 Mark G. Wolfire , David Hollenbach , Christopher F. McKee

We present deep HI observations of three compact high-velocity clouds (CHVCs). The main goal is to study their diffuse warm gas and compact cold cores. We use both low- and high-resolution data obtained with the 100 m Effelsberg telescope…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-18 Shahram Faridani , Lars Flöer , Jürgen Kerp , Tobias Westmeier

We present Westerbork Synthesis Radio Telescope HI images, Lovell Telescope multibeam HI wide-field mapping, Wisconsin H-alpha Mapper facility images, William Herschel Telescope longslit echelle CaII observations, and IRAS ISSA 60 and 100…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 J. V. Smoker , L. M. Haffner , F. P. Keenan , R. D. Davies , D. Pollacco

Aims: We wish to separate and quantify the CO luminosity and CO-H2 conversion factor applicable to diffuse but partially-molecular ISM when H2 and CO are present but C+ is the dominant form of gas-phase carbon. Methods: We discuss galactic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-18 Harvey Liszt , Jerome Pety , Robert Lucas

Determining temperatures in molecular clouds from ratios of CO rotational lines or from ratios of continuum emission in different wavelength bands suffers from reduced temperature sensitivity in the high-temperature limit. In theory, the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 W. F. Wall

We present recent results on highly ionized gas in Galactic High-Velocity Clouds (HVCs), originally surveyed in OVI (Sembach et al. 2003). In a new FUSE/HST survey of SiII/III/IV (Shull et al. 2009) toward 37 AGN, we detected SiIII (lambda…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-13 Erin E. Zekis , J. Michael Shull