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The presence of a circumnuclear stellar disk around Sgr A* and megamaser systems near other black holes indicates that dense neutral disks can be found in galactic nuclei. We show that depending on their inclination angle, optical depth,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-11-18 Pierre Christian , Abraham Loeb

2MASS K_S band data of the inner 60 pc of the Galaxy are used to reconstruct the line-of-sight distances of the giant molecular clouds located in this region. Using the 2MASS H band image of the same region, two different populations of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 B. Vollmer , R. Zylka , W. J. Duschl

We have mapped over 50 massive, dense clumps with four dense gas tracers: HCN J=1-0 and 3-2; and CS J=2-1 and 7-6 transitions. Spectral lines of optically thin H^{13}CN 3-2 and C^{34}S 5-4 were also obtained towards the map centers. These…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-18 Jingwen Wu , Neal Evans , Yancy Shirley , Claudia Knez

The scattering diameters of Sgr A* and several nearby OH masers (~ 1" at 1 GHz) indicate that a region of enhanced scattering is along the line of sight to the Galactic center. The scattering diameter of an extragalactic source seen through…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 T. Joseph W. Lazio , James M. Cordes

We present Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) observations of the CO(2-1) emission in the z=4.05 submillimeter galaxy (SMG) GN20. These high-resolution data allow us to image the molecular gas at 1.3 kpc resolution just 1.6 Gyr after the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Jacqueline A. Hodge , C. L. Carilli , F. Walter , W. J. G. de Blok , D. A. Riechers , E. Daddi , L. Lentati

We present a large-scale survey of the central molecular zone (CMZ) of our Galaxy, as well as a monitoring program of Sgr A*, with the AzTEC/Large Millimeter Telescope (LMT) in the 1.1 mm continuum. Our 1.1 mm map covers the main body of…

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

X-ray observations collected over the last decades have revealed a strongly variable X-ray signal within the Milky Way's Galactic center, interpreted as X-ray echoes from its supermassive black hole, Sgr A*. These echoes are traced by the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-07-04 Danya Alboslani , Cara Battersby , Samantha Brunker , Maïca Clavel , Daniel Walker , Dani Lipman

The Infrared Space Observatory Long wavelength Spectrometerhas been used to map distribution of the emission from a sample of 22 atomic, molecular and ionised lines toward the Circumnuclear Disk at the Galactic Centre. The CND disc is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Glenn J. White , H. A. Smith , G. Stacey , C. Matt Bradford , S. J. Leeks , O. Sweet , J. Fischer

Aims. The goal of this study is to further the understanding of the wind formation mechanism in asymptotic giant branch (AGB) stars through the analysis of the close environment (within a few stellar radii) of the carbon star X TrA.…

The central structure in three of the brightest unlensed z=3-4 submillimeter galaxies are investigated through 0.015" - 0.05" (120 -- 360~pc) 860 micron continuum images obtained using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array…

The interstellar medium of Centaurus A (NGC 5128) has been studied extensively in recent years, using mostly molecular lines tracing low to medium density gas (500 to several $10^3$ cm$^{-3}$). The amount and distribution of the dense…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 W. Wild , A. Eckart

Mid-Infrared (MIR) images of the Galactic center show extended gas and dust features along with bright IRS sources. Some of these dust features are a part of ionized clumpy streamers orbiting Sgr~A*, known as the mini-spiral. We present…

We present the result of a study of the X-ray emission from the Galactic Centre Molecular Clouds (MC), within 15 arcmin from Sgr A*. We use XMM-Newton data spanning about 8 years. We observe an apparent super-luminal motion of a light front…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-04-12 Gabriele Ponti , Regis Terrier , Andrea Goldwurm , Guillaume Belanger , Guillaume Trap

We present deep high resolution (0.03", 200pc) ALMA Band 7 observations covering the dust continuum and [CII] $\lambda157.7\mu$m emission in four $z\sim4.4-4.8$ sub-millimeter galaxies (SMGs) selected from the ALESS and AS2UDS surveys. The…

We present FCRAO maps as well as combined BIMA and FCRAO maps of the high density molecular emission towards the CS core in the L673 region. With the FCRAO telescope, we mapped the emission in the CS(2-1), C34S(2-1), HCO+(1-0), and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Oscar Morata , Josep Miquel Girart , Robert Estalella

Dense molecular gas tracers in the central 1 kpc region of the superwind galaxy NGC 1808 have been imaged by ALMA at a resolution of 1" (~50 pc). Integrated intensities and line intensity ratios of HCN (1-0), H$^{13}$CN (1-0), HCO$^+$…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-04-11 Dragan Salak , Yuto Tomiyasu , Naomasa Nakai , Nario Kuno , Yusuke Miyamoto , Hiroyuki Kaneko

This paper reports on the early Chandra view of the Galactic center (GC) activities. The massive black hole Sgr A* is extremely faint, while more bright diffuse X-ray emission is prevailing in the circumnuclear disk. Another high…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Katsuji Koyama

We present the detection of a previously unknown giant molecular cloud (GMC) located at the midpoint of the Galactic Bar Dust Lanes (M4.7--0.8), using spectral line observations taken with the Green Bank Telescope (GBT). This $\sim$60 pc…

This paper reports the diffuse X-ray features around the Galactic center observed with Chandra. We confirm the ASCA and Ginga discoveries of the large-scale thin-thermal plasma with strong lines in the Galactic center region. In addition,…