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We report the results of a survey in the CH3CN J= 12-11 transition toward a sample of massive proto-stellar candidates. The observations were carried out with the 10 m Submillimeter telescope on Mount Graham, AZ. We detected this molecular…

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The interstellar medium (ISM) in starburst galaxies contains plenty of chemical elements synthesised by core-collapse supernova explosions. By measuring the abundances of these metals, we can study the chemical enrichment within galaxies…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-06-12 K. Fukushima , S. B. Kobayashi , K. Matsushita

We report the detection of the CO J=1-0 emission line in three near-infrared selected star-forming galaxies at z~1.5 with the Very Large Array (VLA) and the Green Bank telescope (GBT). These observations directly trace the bulk of molecular…

We used newly obtained observations from the Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI) equipped with the Medium Resolution Spectrometer (MRS) aboard the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to extract spectra covering the entire spectral range from 5 to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-11-13 P. Vermot , A. Ciurlo , D. Rouan , M. R. Morris , E. Bron , J. Le Bourlot , F. Le Petit , J. Qiu , A. Togi , A. Ghez T. Do , J. R. Lu

The study of the physical and chemical properties of gas infall motion in the molecular clumps helps us understand the initial stages of star formation. We used the FTS wide-sideband mode of the IRAM 30-m telescope to observe nine infall…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-11-29 Yang Yang , Yao Wang , Zhibo Jiang , Zhiwei Chen

We present a pilot study of ~ 3" resolution observations of low CO transitions with the Submillimeter Array in three nearby Seyfert galaxies, which are part of the low-luminosity quasi-stellar object (LLQSOs) sample consisting of 99 nearby…

We have mapped the warm molecular gas traced by the H_2 S(0) - H_2 S(5) pure rotational mid-infrared emission lines over a radial strip across the nucleus and disk of M51 (NGC 5194) using the Infrared Spectrograph (IRS) on the Spitzer Space…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 G. Brunner , K. Sheth , L. Armus , M. Wolfire , S. Vogel , E. Schinnerer , G. Helou , R. Dufour , J. Smith , D. Dale

The Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), the closest star forming galaxy with low metallicity, provides an ideal laboratory to study star formation in such an environment. The classical dense molecular gas thermometer NH3 is rarely available in a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-03-22 X. D. Tang , C. Henkel , C. -H. R. Chen , K. M. Menten , R. Indebetouw , X. W. Zheng , J. Esimbek , J. J. Zhou , Y. Yuan , D. L. Li , Y. X. He

We report on the analysis of a deep (100 ks) observation of the starburst galaxy M82 with the EPIC and RGS instruments on board the X-ray telescope XMM-Newton. The broad-band (0.5-10 keV) emission is due to at least three spectral…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-05-06 Piero Ranalli , Andrea Comastri , Livia Origlia , Roberto Maiolino

The nucleus of M82 has been mapped in several 3mm and 1mm lines of CN, HCN, C2H, c-C3H2, CH3C2H, HC3N and HOC+ using the IRAM 30m telescope. These species have been purposely selected as good tracers of photon-dominated chemistry. We have…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 A. Fuente , S. Garcia-Burillo , M. Gerin , D. Teyssier , A. Usero , J. R. Rizzo , P. de Vicente

We present a study of new 7.7-11.3 $\mu$m data obtained with the James Webb Space Telescope Mid-InfraRed Instrument in the starburst galaxy M 82. In particular, we focus on the dependency of the integrated CO(1-0) line intensity on the…

(abridged) In this work we have a closer look at the gas content or fraction and the associated star formation rate in main sequence and starburst galaxies at z=0 and z~1-2 by applying an analytical model of galactic clumpy gas disks to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-06-28 B. Vollmer , P. Gratier , J. Braine , C. Bot

We present the first interferometric detection of extragalactic NH_3(6,6) emission in the nearby galaxy IC 342 made using the VLA. The data have a resolution of 7.8''x 5.0'' and trace hot (T ~ 412 K) and dense (> 10^{4} cm^{-3}) molecular…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Maria Montero-Castano , Robeson M. Herrnstein , Paul T. P. Ho

The aim of this study is to investigate systematic chemical differentiation of molecules in regions of high mass star formation. We observed five prominent sites of high mass star formation in HCN, HNC, HCO+, their isotopes, C18O, C34S and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2010-11-02 I. Zinchenko , P. Caselli , L. Pirogov

We present high resolution maps ($\sim 2^{''}$) maps of the J=1-0 and J=2-1 transitions of C$^{18}$O in the central $\sim 150$ pc of the gas-rich nucleus of IC 342, made with the Owens Valley Millimeter Array. From the C$^{18}$O maps we are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 David S. Meier , Jean L. Turner

A key project of the Antarctic Submillimeter Telescope and Remote Observatory (AST/RO) reported by Martin et al. (2004) is the mapping of CO J=4-3 and J=7-6 emission from the inner Milky Way, allowing determination of gas density and…

We present results from a survey of 12CO(J=1-0) spectra obtained for the central regions of 68 nearby galaxies at an angular resolution of 16 arcseconds using the Nobeyama Radio Observatory 45m telescope, aimed at characterizing the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 S. Komugi , Y. Sofue , K. Kohno , H. Nakanishi , S. Onodera , F. Egusa , K. Muraoka

We present a 154 pointing IRAM NOEMA mosaic of the CO(1-0) line emission in and around the nearby starburst galaxy M82. The observations, complemented by zero--spacing observations, reach a spatial resolution of $\sim$30 pc ($\sim…

We have carried out sub-mm 12CO(J=3-2) observations of 6 giant molecular clouds (GMCs) in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) with the ASTE 10m sub-mm telescope at a spatial resolution of 5 pc and very high sensitivity. We have identified 32…

We investigate the role of dense Mpc-scale environment in processing molecular gas in distant Low luminosity radio galaxies (LLRGs) in galaxy (proto-)clusters. We have selected within the COSMOS and DES surveys a sample of five LLRGs at…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-03-13 G. Castignani , F. Combes , P. Salomé , C. Benoist , M. Chiaberge , J. Freundlich , G. De Zotti