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We report the results from observations of H30$\alpha$ line emission in Sgr A West with the Submillimeter Array at a resolution of 2\arcsec and a field of view of about 40\arcsec. The H30$\alpha$ line is sensitive to the high-density…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2010-02-26 Jun-Hui Zhao , Ray Blundell , James M. Moran , D. Downes , Karl F. Schuster , Dan Marrone

We have performed the observation of the "Galactic Center Mini-spiral(GCMS)" in H42alpha recombination line as a part of the first large-scale mosaic observation in the Sagittarius A complex using Atacama Millimeter/sub-millimeter Array…

The mini-spiral is a feature of the interstellar medium in the central ~2 pc of the Galactic center. It is composed of several streamers of dust and ionised and atomic gas with temperatures between a few 100 K to 10^4 K. There is evidence…

We present HST/NICMOS images at 0.2" resolution of the HI Paschen Alpha (PaA) emission line in a 70" x 90" region of the Galactic center centered on the non-thermal radio source Sgr A*. The majority of the emission arises from ionized gas…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 N. Z. Scoville , S. R. Stolovy , M. Rieke , M. H. Christopher , F. Yusef-Zadeh

We present radio continuum observations of the spiral-shaped ionized feature (Sgr A West) within the inner pc of the Galactic center at three epochs spanning 1986 to 1995. The VLA A-configuration was used at $\lambda$2cm (resolution of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 F. Yusef-Zadeh , D. A. Roberts , J. Biretta

We have observed the Galactic Center (GC) region at 0.154 and 0.255 GHz with the GMRT. A total of 62 compact likely extragalactic sources are detected. Their scattering sizes go down linearly with increasing angular distance from the GC up…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-16 Subhashis Roy

We present new results based on high-resolution observations of Sgr A West at the Galactic center with the VLA at 1.3 cm. We measured proper motions for 71 compact HII components. We also investigated radial velocities in the LSR velocity…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2009-06-25 Jun-Hui Zhao , Mark R. Morris , W. M. Goss , Tao An

We report observations and analysis of infrared spectra of H3+ and CO lines in the Galactic center, within a few parsecs of the central black hole, Sgr A*. We find a cosmic ray ionization rate typically an order of magnitude higher than…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-16 M. Goto , Nick Indriolo , T. R. Geballe , T. Usuda

Integral field spectroscopy of the inner region of the Galactic Center, over a field of roughly 40"x40" was obtained at 2.06 microns (He I) and 2.16 microns (Brackett-gamma) using BEAR, an imaging Fourier Transform Spectrometer, at spectral…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Thibaut Paumard , Jean-Pierre Maillard , Mark Morris

The VLA has been used at 8.3 GHz in the DnC and CnB array configurations to carry out an H92alpha recombination line study (at 8.3 GHz) of the ionized gas in the Arched Filaments H II complex, which defines the western edge of the Galactic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Cornelia C. Lang , W. M. Goss , Mark Morris

We present deep WIYN H_alpha SparsePak and DensePak spatially-resolved optical spectroscopy of the dwarf irregular starburst galaxy NGC 1140. The different spatial resolutions and coverage of the two sets of observations have allowed us to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 M. S. Westmoquette , J. S. Gallagher , L. de Poitiers

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 present large-scale submm observations towards the Sgr A Complex covering ~300 arcmin2. These data were obtained in the frame of the HEXGAL Program with the Herschel-HIFI satellite and are complemented with submm observations obtained…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-06-15 P. García , R. Simon , J. Stutzki , R. Güsten , M. A. Requena-Torres , R. Higgins

We have used the capabilities of ALMA to probe the ionized gas towards the Galactic center with the H30alpha mm hydrogen recombination line within 30'' of the Galaxy's dynamical center. The observations are made with spatial and spectral…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-02-13 Marc J. Royster , Farhad Yusef-Zadeh , Mark Wardle , Devaky Kunneriath , William Cotton , Doug A. Roberts

We present a study of diffuse extended ionised gas toward three clouds located in the Galactic Centre (GC). One line of sight (LOS) is toward the 20 km s$^{-1}$ cloud (LOS$-$0.11) in the Sgr A region, another LOS is toward the 50 km…

We present NOT optical observations of a clump (l = 127.9435 deg, b = +1.8298 deg), embedded in an extended, irregularly shaped, diffuse optical nebula. This condensation shows an emission-line spectrum typical of classic HII regions.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 S. Temporin , R. Weinberger

Using a sample of nearly half million galaxies, intersected by over 7 million lines of sight from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 12, we trace H$\alpha$ + [N{\small II}] emission from a galactocentric projected radius, $r_p$, of 5…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-12-28 Huanian Zhang , Dennis Zaritsky , Guangtun Zhu , Brice Ménard , David W. Hogg

The central kiloparsec region of the Andromeda galaxy is relatively gas poor, while the interstellar medium appears to be concentrated in a ring-like structure at about 10 kpc radius. The central gas depletion has been attributed to a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-12-16 A. -L. Melchior , F. Combes

Radio recombination lines at a wavelength of 20 cm reveals the presence of an extended component of ionized gas of lower density in the Sgr A complex. This component extends well beyond the thermal `mini-spiral' SgrA-West, which seem to be…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 K. R. Anantharamaiah , A. Pedlar , W. M. Goss

(Abridged) We present fine structure and recombination lines observations of the ionized gas toward a sample of 18 sources located within 300 pc of the center of the Galaxy (GC). The fine structure lines from [NII] and [SIII] have been…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 N. J. Rodriguez-Fernandez , J. Martin-Pintado
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