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Observations of molecular clouds, prestellar cores, and protoplanetary disks have established that the HNC/HCN ratio may be a potent diagnostic of molecular gas physical conditions. The processes that govern the relative abundances of these…

We detect luminous emission from HCN, HCO+ and HNC 1--0 in the QSO ULIRG Mrk~231 with the IRAM Plateau de Bure Interferometer at 1."55 by 1."28 resolution. All three lines show broad line wings - which are particularly prominent for HCN.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 S. Aalto , S. Garcia-Burillo , S. Muller , J. M. Winters , P. van der Werf , C. Henkel , F. Costagliola , R. Neri

Recent developments in (sub-)millimeter facilities have drastically changed the amount of information obtained from extragalactic spectral scans. In this paper, we present a feature extraction technique using principal component analysis…

We present observations of the dense molecular gas tracers HCN, HNC, and HCO+ in the J=1-0 transition using ALMA. We supplement our datasets with previous observations of CO J=1-0, which traces the total molecular gas content. We separate…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-06-01 Maximilien R. P. Schirm , Christine D. Wilson , Suzanne C. Madden , Dave L. Clements

In a matched sample of Seyfert and quiescent galaxies we simultaneously probe the stellar and molecular gas kinematics from 1 kpc down to 50 pc with the aim of identifying the dynamical processes dictating black hole accretion rates. This…

We present BIMA observations of the HCN emission from five nearby spiral galaxies. The HCN observations comprise the first high-resolution (5--10\arcsec) survey of dense molecular gas from a sample of normal galaxies, rather than galaxies…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 Tamara T. Helfer , Leo Blitz

We present high spatial resolution (5.1" x 2.7") OVRO millimeter array observations of HCN (J=1-0) and HCO+ (J=1-0) emission in the inner 3 pc of the galaxy. The HCN and HCO+ emission of the circumnuclear disk (CND) is distributed in a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 M. H. Christopher , N. Z. Scoville , S. R. Stolovy , Min S. Yun

Compiling data from literature and the ALMA archive, we show enhanced HCN(4-3)/HCO$^+$(4-3) and/or HCN(4-3)/CS(7-6) integrated intensity ratios in circumnuclear molecular gas around active galactic nuclei (AGNs) compared to those in…

Aperture synthesis observations of CO(J=1-0) emission and near-infrared broad-band photometry of the non-barred Seyfert galaxy NGC 5033 (D = 18.7 Mpc) were performed. Our 3".9 x 3".6 resolution CO observations reveal a perturbed…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 K. Kohno , B. Vila-Vilaro , S. Sakamoto , R. Kawabe , S. Ishizuki , S. Matsushita

We used the ARO 12m antenna to observe emission from the J=1-0 lines of carbon monoxide, \hcop\ and HNC and the J=2-1 line of CS toward and around the continuum peak used for absorption studies and we compare them with CH, HNC, C\p\ and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-01-13 Harvey Liszt , Maryvonne Gerin

The nearby Seyfert 2 Galaxy NGC 1068 was observed with speckle imaging techniques in the near-infrared H-band (1.6 microns) at the Hale 200-inch Telescope and K-band (2.2 microns) at the 10 m Keck I Telescope. Images with diffraction…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 A. J. Weinberger , G. Neugebauer , K. Matthews

We report sub arc-second resolution X-ray imaging-spectroscopy of the archetypal type 2 Seyfert galaxy NGC 1068 with the Chandra X-ray Observatory. The observations reveal the detailed structure and spectra of the 13 kpc-extent nebulosity…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 A. J. Young , A. S. Wilson , P. L. Shopbell

We report observations made with the IRAM 30m radiotelescope in the HCN(1-0) and HCO+(1-0) lines towards a sample of molecular complexes (GMCs) in the disk of the Andromeda galaxy (M31). The targets were identified bright CO GMCs selected…

We present high resolution (3" - 5") observations of CO(1-0) and HCN(1-0) emission from the circumnuclear star forming ring in the barred spiral galaxy NGC 6951, a host of a type-2 Seyfert, using the Nobeyama Millimeter Array and 45 m…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Kotaro Kohno , Ryohei Kawabe , Baltasar Vila-Vilaro

The HNC/HCN ratio is observationally known as a thermometer in Galactic interstellar molecular clouds. A recent study has alternatively suggested that the HNC/HCN ratio is affected by the ultraviolet (UV) field, not by the temperature. We…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-05-16 Nanase Harada , Toshiki Saito , Yuri Nishimura , Yoshimasa Watanabe , Kazushi Sakamoto

We present results of a ^{12}CO J = 3-2 survey of 125 nearby galaxies obtained with the 10-m Heinrich-Hertz-Telescope, with the aim to characterize the properties of warm and dense molecular gas in a large variety of environments. With an…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Rui-Qing Mao , Andreas Schulz , Christian Henkel , Rainer Mauersberger , Dirk Muders , Dihn-V-Trung

We report the detection of surprisingly strong HCN, HNC, and HCO+(J=6-5) emission in the host galaxy of the z=3.91 quasar APM08279+5255 through observations with CARMA. HCN, HNC, and HCO+ are typically used as star formation indicators,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-01-27 Dominik A. Riechers , Axel Weiss , Fabian Walter , Jeff Wagg

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 observations made with the 10m Heinrich Hertz Sub-Millimeter Telescope of HCN (3-2) emission from a sample of 30 nearby galaxies ranging in infrared luminosity from 10^10 - 10^12.5 L_sun and HCN (3-2) luminosity from 10^6 - 10^9…

Motivated by the discovery of large-scale ionized clouds around AGN host galaxies, and particularly the large fraction of those which are consistent with photoionized gaseous tidal debris, we have searched for [O III] emission over wide…