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To complement the optical absorption-line survey of diffuse molecular gas in Paper I, we obtained and analyzed far ultraviolet H$_2$ and CO data on lines of sight toward stars in Cep OB2 and Cep OB3. Possible correlations between column…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 K. Pan , S. R. Federman , Y. Sheffer , B. -G. Andersson

We use the CARMA millimeter interferometer to map the Antennae Galaxies (NGC4038/39), tracing the bulk of the molecular gas via the 12CO(1-0) line and denser molecular gas via the high density transitions HCN(1-0), HCO+(1-0), CS(2-1), and…

We aim to develop the Orion B Giant Molecular Cloud (GMC) as a local template for interpreting extra-galactic molecular line observations. We use the wide-band receiver at the IRAM-30m to spatially and spectrally resolve the Orion B GMC.…

N113 is an HII region located in the central part of the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) with an associated molecular cloud very rich in molecular species. Most of the previously observed molecular lines cover the frequency range 85-270 GHz.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-08-10 S. Paron , M. E. Ortega , M. Cunningham , P. A. Jones , M. Rubio , C. Fariña , S. Komugi

We present Submillimeter Array (SMA) observations of the HCN\,(3--2) and HCO$^+$\,(3--2) molecular lines toward the W3(H$_2$O) and W3(OH) star-forming complexes. Infall and outflow motions in the W3(H$_2$O) have been characterized by…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-27 Sheng-Li Qin , Peter Schilke , Jingwen Wu , Tie Liu , Yuefang Wu , Álvaro Sánchez-Monge , Ying Liu

We present Submillimeter Array (SMA) molecular line observations in two 2 GHz-wide bands centered at 217.5 and 227.5 GHz, toward the massive star forming region W51 North. We identified 84 molecular line transitions from 17 species and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-11-18 Jialei Rong , Sheng-Li Qin , Luis A. Zapata , Yuefang Wu , Tie Liu , Chengpeng Zhang , Yaping Peng , Li Zhang , Ying Liu

C$_2$H is a representative hydrocarbon that is abundant and ubiquitous in the interstellar medium (ISM). To study its chemical properties, we present Submillimeter Array (SMA) observations of the C$_2$H $N=3-2$ and HC$_3$N $J=30-29$…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-08-06 Xue-Jian Jiang , Hauyu Baobab Liu , Qizhou Zhang , Junzhi Wang , Zhi-Yu Zhang , Juan Li , Yu Gao , Qiusheng Gu

We recently reported a population of protostellar candidates in the 20 km s$^{-1}$ cloud in the Central Molecular Zone of the Milky Way, traced by H$_2$O masers in gravitationally bound dense cores. In this paper, we report…

Recent advances in identifying giant molecular filaments in galactic surveys allow us to study the interstellar material and its dense, potentially star forming phase on scales comparable to resolved extragalactic clouds. Two large…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-03-29 O. Feher , S. E. Ragan , F. D. Priestley , P. C. Clark , T. J. T. Moore

The dense cloud associated with W40, one of the nearby H II regions, has been studied in millimeter-wave molecular lines and in 1.2 mm continuum. Besides, 1280 MHz and 610 MHz interferometric observations have been done. The cloud has…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-17 L. Pirogov , D. K. Ojha , M. Thomasson , Y. -F. Wu , I. Zinchenko

Aims: Investigation of the dense gas, the outflows and the continuum emission from the massive twin cores NGC6334I and I(N) at high spatial resolution. Methods: We imaged the region with the Australia Telescope Compact Array (ATCA) at 3.4mm…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 H. Beuther , A. J. Walsh , S. Thorwirth , Q. Zhang , T. R. Hunter , S. T. Megeath , K. M. Menten

Molecular line CN, CS and mm continuum observations of two intermediate- to high-mass star-forming regions - IRAS20293+3952 and IRAS19410+2336 - obtained with the Plateau de Bure Interferometer at high spatial resolution reveal interesting…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 H. Beuther , P. Schilke , F. Wyrowski

We present sub-arcsecond observations toward the massive star forming region G75.78+0.34. We used the Very Large Array to study the centimeter continuum and H2O and CH3OH maser emission, and the Owens Valley Radio Observatory and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-15 Alvaro Sanchez-Monge , Stan Kurtz , Aina Palau , Robert Estalella , Debra Shepherd , Susana Lizano , Jose Franco , Guido Garay

H$_{\rm I}$ 21-cm and $^{12}$CO 2.6-mm line emissions respectively trace the atomic and molecular gas phases, but they miss most of the opaque H$_{\rm I}$ and diffuse H$_2$ present in the Dark Neutral Medium (DNM) at the transition between…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-03-28 Q. Remy , I. A. Grenier , D. J. Marshall , J. M. Casandjian

We use the POLARIS radiative transfer code to produce simulated circular polarization Zeeman emission maps of the CN $J = 1 - 0$ molecular line transition for two types of protostellar envelope magnetohydrodynamic simulations. Our first…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-05 Renato Mazzei , Zhi-Yun Li , Che-Yu Chen , Yisheng Tu , Laura Fissel , Richard I. Klein

It is still poorly constrained how the densest phase of the interstellar medium varies across galactic environment. A large observing time is required to recover significant emission from dense molecular gas at high spatial resolution, and…

We have observed six high-mass star-forming regions in the 2 Pi 3/2, J = 7/2 lines of OH using the GBT in order to investigate whether the magnetic field, and hence the density, measured in absorption differs from that implied by maser…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Vincent L. Fish , Mark J. Reid , Karl M. Menten

We have carried out a multi-epoch simultaneous survey of 22 GHz H$_2$O and 44 GHz Class I CH$_3$OH masers toward 103 ultracompact HII regions (UCHIIs) between 2010 and 2017. We detected H$_2$O and CH$_3$OH maser emission in 74 (72%) and 55…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-04 Won-Ju Kim , Kee-Tae Kim , Kwang-Tae Kim

We have imaged emission from the millimeter lines of eight molecules--C2H, C34S, N2H+, CH3OH, HNCO, HNC, HC3N, and SO--in the central half kpc of the nearby spiral galaxy IC 342. The 5" (~50 pc) resolution images were made with OVRO. Using…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-13 David S. Meier , Jean L. Turner

We probe the column densities and masses traced by the ionized and neutral atomic carbon with spectrally resolved maps, and compare them to the diffuse and dense molecular gas traced by [C I] and low-$J$ CO lines toward the star-forming…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-23 J. P. Perez-Beaupuits , J. Stutzki , V. Ossenkopf , M. Spaans , R. Gusten , H. Wiesemeyer