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We report sub-arcsecond ALMA observations between 272 - 375 GHz towards Sgr A*'s Circumnuclear disk (CND). Our data comprises 8 individual pointings, with significant SiO (8(7) - 7(6)) and SO (7 - 6) emission detected towards 98 positions…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-08-03 Tomas A. James , Serena Viti , Farhad Yusef-Zadeh , Marc Royster , Mark Wardle

The Milky Way Galactic Center hosts a $\sim4\times10^{6}\,M_\odot$ supermassive black hole (SMBH), Sgr A*. The dominant structures in its immediate vicinity are the nuclear star cluster (NSC), whose enclosed mass at 2 pc is approximately…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-12-16 Asad Ukani , Lena Murchikova , Mark D. Gorski

The presence of OH (1720 MHz) masers, and the absence of counterparts at 1665/1667 MHz has proved to be a clear diagnostic of shocked molecular gas associated with Galactic supernova remnants. This suggests that shocked molecular gas should…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 F. Yusef-Zadeh , S. R. Stolovy , M. Burton , M. Wardle , M. C. B. Ashley

The Circumnuclear Disk (CND) is a torus of dust and molecular gas rotating about the galactic centre and extending from approximately 1.6pc to 7pc from the central massive black hole, SgrA*. Large Velocity Gradient modelling of the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-17 Ian L Smith , Mark Wardle

We present a large-scale, interferometric survey of ammonia (1,1) and (2,2) toward the Galactic Center observed with the Australia Telescope Compact Array (ATCA). The survey covers Delta l ~1degree (~150pc) at an assumed distance of 8.5…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-18 Juergen Ott , Axel Weiss , Lister Staveley-Smith , Christian Henkel , David S. Meier

The circumnuclear disk (CND) of the Galactic Center is exposed to many energetic phenomena coming from the supermassive black hole Sgr A* and stellar activities. These energetic activities can affect the chemical composition in the CND by…

We present 19.7, 31.5, and 37.1 {\mu}m images of the inner 6 pc of the Galactic Center of the Milky Way with a spatial resolution of 3.2 - 4.6'' taken by the Faint Object Infrared Camera on the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-16 R. M. Lau , T. L. Herter , M. R. Morris , E. E. Becklin , J. D. Adams

ALMA observations of the Galactic center with spatial resolution $2.61"\times0.97"$ resulted in the detection of 11 SiO (5-4) clumps of molecular gas within 0.6pc (15$"$) of Sgr A*, interior to the 2-pc circumnuclear molecular ring. The…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-15 F. Yusef-Zadeh , M. Royster , M. Wardle , R. Arendt , H. Bushouse , D. C. Lis , M. W. Pound , D. A. Roberts , B. Whitney , A. Wootten

The Galactic Center black hole and the nuclear star cluster are surrounded by a clumpy ring of gas and dust (the circumnuclear disk, CND) that rotates about them at a standoff distance of ~1.5 pc. The mass and density of individual clumps…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-08-17 Thibaut Paumard , Anna Ciurlo , Mark R. Morris , Tuan Do , Andrea M. Ghez

We report serendipitous detections of line emission with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) in band 3, 6, and 7 in the central parsec down to within 1" around Sgr A* at an up to now highest resolution (<0.5") view of…

We have conducted a large-field simultaneous survey of $^{12}$CO, $^{13}$CO, and C$^{18}$O $J=1-0$ emission toward the Cassiopeia A (Cas A) supernova remnant (SNR), which covers a sky area of $3.5^{\circ}\times3.1^{\circ}$. The Cas giant…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-06-19 Yuehui Ma , Hongchi Wang , Miaomiao Zhang , Chong Li , Ji Yang

We have performed unbiased spectral line surveys at 3 mm band toward the Galactic circumnuclear disk (CND) and Sgr A* using the Nobeyama Radio Observatory (NRO) 45 m radio telescope. The target positions are two tangential points of the CND…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-22 Shunya Takekawa , Tomoharu Oka , Kunihiko Tanaka , Shinji Matsumura , Kodai Miura , Daisuke Sakai

We report on Green Bank Telescope 23.87 GHz NH$_3$(3,3), emission observations in five supernova remnants interacting with molecular clouds (G1.4$-$0.1, IC443, W44, W51C, and G5.7$-$0.0). The observations show a clumpy gas density…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-08-17 Bridget McEwen , Ylva Pihlström , Loránt Sjouwerman

New VLA images of NH3 (1,1), (2,2), and (3,3) emission in the central 10 parsecs of the Galaxy trace filamentary streams of gas, several of which appear to feed the circumnuclear disk (CND). The NH3 images have a spatial resolution of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Robeson S. McGary , Alison L. Coil , Paul T. P. Ho

Molecular clouds in the Galactic center (GC) reprocess radiation from past outbursts of nearby high-energy sources, generating a bright Fe K-alpha fluorescence at 6.4 keV. The closest clouds to the GC are only $\simeq 1.5$ pc from Sgr A*,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-11-01 G. Stel , G. Ponti , F. Haardt

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

We present high resolution H41a hydrogen recombination line observations of the 1.2' (3 pc) region surrounding Sgr A* at 92 GHz using the OVRO Millimeter Array with an angular resolution of 7" x 3" and velocity resolution of 13 km/s. New…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Hemant Shukla , Min S. Yun , N. Z. Scoville

The Bolocam Galactic Plane Survey (BGPS) data for a six square degree region of the Galactic plane containing the Galactic center is analyzed and compared to infrared and radio continuum data. The BGPS 1.1 mm emission consists of clumps…

The circumnuclear region of the Galactic Center offers a unique laboratory to study energy balance and structure formation around Sgr A$\star$. This work investigates thermal and nonthermal processes within 7 pc distance from Sgr A$\star$.…

We present high resolution images of the 12CO(2-1) emission in the central 1' (1 kpc) of NGC 5128 (Centaurus A), observed using the SMA. We elucidate for the first time the distribution and kinematics of the molecular gas in this region…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2011-02-11 D. Espada , S. Matsushita , A. Peck , C. Henkel , D. Iono , F. P. Israel , S. Muller , G. Petitpas , Y. Pihlstroem , G. B. Taylor , Dinh-V-Trung