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We present Wisconsin H-Alpha Mapper observations of ionized gas in the Smith Cloud, a high velocity cloud which Lockman et al. have recently suggested is interacting with the Galactic disk. Our H-alpha map shows the brightest H-alpha…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2009-09-17 Alex S. Hill , L. Matthew Haffner , Ronald J. Reynolds

Active Galactic Nuclei (AGNs) exhibit excess mid-infrared H$_2$ emission compared to star-forming galaxies, likely driven by outflows and shocks inferred from integrated spectra. We present optical IFU observations of the central 2\,kpc of…

To constrain theoretical models of high-mass star formation, observational signatures of mass accretion in O-type forming stars are desirable. Using the JVLA, we have mapped the hot and dense molecular gas in the hot core NGC7538 IRS1, with…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-01-14 Ciriaco Goddi , Qizhou Zhang , Luca Moscadelli

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 report systematic mapping observations of the NH$_{3}$ (1,1) and (2,2) inversion lines towards 62 high-mass star-forming regions using VLA in its D and DnC array configurations. The VLA images cover a spatial dynamic range from 40$"$ to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-19 Xing Lu , Qizhou Zhang , Hauyu Baobab Liu , Junzhi Wang , Qiusheng Gu

We present molecular line mapping of the Giant Molecular Cloud G1.6-0.025, which is located at the high longitude end of the Central Molecular Zone of our Galaxy. We assess the degree of star formation activity in that region using several…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Karl M. Menten , Robert W. Wilson , Silvia Leurini , Peter Schilke

We present sensitive observations of NH2D at 110.153599 GHz toward 50 Galactic massive star-forming regions with IRAM 30-m telescope. The NH2D transition is detected toward 36 objects, yielding a detection rate of 72%. Column densities of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-04-27 Yuqiang Li , Junzhi Wang , Juan Li , Shu Liu , Qiuyi Luo

We report the first detection of hot molecular cores in the Small Magellanic Cloud, a nearby dwarf galaxy with 0.2 solar metallicity. We observed two high-mass young stellar objects in the SMC with ALMA, and detected emission lines of CO,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-04-12 Takashi Shimonishi , Kei E. I. Tanaka , Yichen Zhang , Kenji Furuya

We present the detection and analysis of molecular hydrogen emission toward ten interstellar regions in the Large Magellanic Cloud. We examined low-resolution infrared spectral maps of twelve regions obtained with the Spitzer infrared…

We report on Australia Telescope observations of the massive star forming region G305.2+0.2 at 1.2 cm. We detected emission in five molecules towards G305A, confirming its hot core nature. We determined a rotational temperature of 26 K for…

Interferometric observations of the W33A massive star-formation region, performed with the Submillimeter Array (SMA) and the Very Large Array (VLA) at resolutions from 5 arcsec (0.1 pc) to 0.5 arcsec (0.01 pc) are presented. Our three main…

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

The physical structure of hot molecular cores, where forming massive stars have heated up dense dust and gas, but have not yet ionized the molecules, poses a prominent challenge in the research of high-mass star formation and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-07-04 Rainer Rolffs , Peter Schilke , Qizhou Zhang , Luis Zapata

We describe a moderate-resolution FUSE survey of H2 along 70 sight lines to the Small and Large Magellanic Clouds, using hot stars as background sources. FUSE spectra of 67% of observed Magellanic Cloud sources (52% of LMC and 92% of SMC)…

We present the first detection of CO emission lines in the Halpha filaments at distances as far as 50 kpc from the centre of the galaxy NGC 1275. This gas is probably dense (>=10E3 cm-3). However, it is not possible to accurately determine…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 P. Salomé , F. Combes , Y. Revaz , D. Downes , A. C. Edge , A. C. Fabian

The temperature is a central parameter affecting the chemical and physical properties of dense cores of interstellar clouds and their evolution to star formation. The chemistry and the dust properties are temperature dependent and the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-03 M. Juvela , J. Harju , N. Ysard , T. Lunttila

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 describe a moderate-resolution FUSE mini-survey of H2 in the Milky Way and Magellanic Clouds, using four hot stars and four AGN as background sources. FUSE spectra of nearly every stellar and extragalactic source exhibit numerous…

ALMA imaging of the cold molecular medium in the nearby starburst galaxy NGC 1808 is presented. The observations reveal the distribution of molecular gas, traced by $^{12}$CO (1-0) and $^{12}$CO (3-2), and continuum (93 and 350 GHz) across…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-11-15 Dragan Salak , Yuto Tomiyasu , Naomasa Nakai , Nario Kuno , Yusuke Miyamoto , Hiroyuki Kaneko

The 1.3deg (G1.3) and 1.6deg (G1.6) cloud complexes in the Central Molecular Zone (CMZ) of our Galaxy have been proposed to possibly reside at the intersection region of the X1 and X2 orbits for several reasons. This includes the detection…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-12-21 Laura A. Busch , Denise Riquelme , Rolf Güsten , Karl M. Menten , Thushara G. S. Pillai , Jens Kauffmann