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The gas-phase velocity dispersions in disk galaxies, which trace turbulence in the interstellar medium, are observed to increase with lookback time. However, the mechanisms that set this rise in turbulence are observationally poorly…

We report high-resolution CO(1-0) observations in the central 6 kpc of the LINER galaxy NGC 5005 with the Owens Valley Radio Observatory millimeter array. Molecular gas is distributed in three components - a ring at a radius of about 3 kpc,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Kazushi Sakamoto , Andrew J. Baker , Nick Z. Scoville

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

We investigated the interstellar medium properties of the disc and outflowing gas in the central regions of nine nearby Seyfert galaxies, all characterised by prominent outflows. These objects are part of the Measuring Active Galactic…

We present results from a study of the dense circum-nuclear molecular gas of starburst galaxies. The study aims to investigate the interplay between starbursts, active galactic nuclei and molecular gas. We characterise the dense gas traced…

We investigated the gravitational potential and mass distribution in the Galactic Center by examining the morphology and kinematics of the circumnuclear gaseous disk revealed by the molecular line data from the ALMA CMZ Exploration Survey…

The cold molecular gas in the circumnuclear disk (CND) of radio galaxies provides critical information for understanding the mass accretion onto active galactic nuclei. We present the first detection and maps of HCN J=1-0 and HCO+ J=1-0…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-08-17 Satoko Sawada-Satoh , Seiji Kameno , Sascha Trippe

The relationship between the star formation rate and surface density of neutral gas within the disk of M33 is examined with new imaging observations of CO J=1-0 emission gathered with the FCRAO 14m telescope and IRAS HiRes images of the 60…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 M. H. Heyer , E. Corbelli , S. E. Schneider , J. S. Young

On the basis of ``sticky particle'' calculations, it is argued that the gas features observed within 10 pc of the Galactic Centre-- the circumnuclear disk (CND) and the ionized gas filaments-- as well as the newly formed stars in the inner…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 R. H. Sanders

We carry out a systematic study of the density structure of gas in the Central Molecular Zone (CMZ) in the Galactic center by extracting clumps from the APEX Telescope Large Area Survey of the Galaxy survey at 870 $\mu$m. We find that the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-07-15 Guang-Xing Li , Chuan-Peng Zhang

This study investigates the properties of two gas structures of X-ray selected active galactic nuclei (AGNs), that is, dusty and dust-free gas components, by separating them with the line-of-sight dust extinction ($A_V$) and the neutral gas…

We use deep far-infrared data from the PEP/GOODS-Herschel surveys and rest frame ultraviolet photometry to study the evolution of the molecular gas mass function of normal star forming galaxies. Computing the molecular gas mass, M(mol), by…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 S. Berta , D. Lutz , R. Nordon , R. Genzel , B. Magnelli , P. Popesso , D. Rosario , A. Saintonge , S. Wuyts , L. J. Tacconi

We report the detection of 1 10^7 M_sun of molecular gas in the central region of the S0/E7 galaxy NGC4550, inferred from observations of CO(1-0) emission. Dust is detected in HST WFPC2 images and found to be asymmetrically distributed…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 T. Wiklind , C. Henkel

We derive radial and vertical distributions of HI and H2 gas densities in our Galaxy by using the terminal velocity method. We calculate the molecular fraction (f_mol) defined as the ratio of the molecular hydrogen to total hydrogen gas…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 K. Imamura , Y. Sofue

We have performed three-dimensional, non-LTE radiative transfer calculations for 12CO and 13CO lines, applying them to our high-resolution hydrodynamic models of the `torus' around a SMBH in an active galactic nucleus. The hydrodynamic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Keiichi Wada , Kohji Tomisaka

We present ALMA [\ion{C}{1}]~$^3P_1$--$^3P_0$ imaging of the central $6.6\times4.2~\mathrm{pc}^2$ region of the Galaxy encompassing the circumnuclear disk (CND). The data reveal low-density ($n_\mathrm{H_2}\sim10^3~$cm$^{-3}$) molecular gas…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-02-11 Kunihiko Tanaka , Makoto Nagai , Kazuhisa Kamegai

Within a few parsecs around the central Black Hole Sgr A*, chemistry in the dense molecular cloud material of the circumnuclear disk (CND) can be affected by many energetic phenomena such as high UV-flux from the massive central star…

In order to study the distribution of dense molecular gas and its relation to the central activities (starburst and AGN) in galaxies, we have conducted an imaging survey of HCN(1-0) and HCO+(1-0) emissions from nearby spiral galaxies with…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Kotaro Kohno , Ryohei Kawabe , Toshihito Shibatsuka , Satoki Matsushita

We show that the recently observed suppression of the gap between the broad line region (BLR) and the narrow line region (NLR) in some AGN can be fully explained by an increase of the gas density in the emitting region. Our model predicts…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-11-17 T. P. Adhikari , A. Różańska , B. Czerny , K. Hryniewicz , G. J. Ferland

Supermassive black holes in giant elliptical galaxies are remarkably faint given their expected accretion rates. This motivates models of radiatively inefficient accretion, due to either ion-electron thermal decoupling, generation of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Jonathan C. Tan , Henrik Beuther , Fabian Walter , Eric G. Blackman