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Velocity fields of molecular clouds (MCs) can provide crucial information on the merger and split between clouds, as well as their internal kinematics and maintenance, energy injection and redistribution, even star formation within clouds.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-03-12 Lixia Yuan , Ji Yang , Xuepeng Chen , Yang Su , Shaobo Zhang , Xin Zhou , Zhiwei Chen , Qing-Zeng Yan , Min Fang , Fujun Du , Yan Sun , Hongchi Wang , Ye Xu

We report the discovery of very high latitude molecular gas in the edge-on spiral galaxy, NGC 5775. Emission from both the J=1-0 and 2-1 lines of 12CO is detected up to 4.8 kpc away from the mid-plane of the galaxy. NGC 5775 is known to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 S. -W. Lee , E. R. Seaquist , S. Leon , S. Garcia-Burillo , J. A. Irwin

We present observations of the CO isotopologues ($^{12}$CO, $^{13}$CO, and C$^{18}$O) toward the Galactic region with $169\arcdeg.75 \leqslant l \leqslant 174\arcdeg.75$ and $-0\arcdeg.75 \leqslant b \leqslant 0\arcdeg.5$, using the Purple…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-08-22 Fang Xiong , Xuepeng Chen , Qizhou Zhang , Ji Yang , Min Fang , Miaomiao Zhang , Weihua Guo , Li Sun

The supermassive black hole at the Galactic center, Sagittarius A*, has experienced periods of higher activity in the past. The reflection of these past outbursts is observed in the molecular material surrounding the black hole but…

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We have obtained maps of the molecular emission within the central five arcminutes (12 pc) of the Galactic center (GC) in selected molecular tracers: SiO(2-1), HNCO(5_{0,5}-4_{0,4}), and the J=1-->0 transition of H^{13}CO+, HN^{13}C, and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-20 M. A. Amo-Baladrón , J. Martín-Pintado , S. Martín

High-velocity clouds (HVCs) are interstellar gas clouds whose velocities are incompatible with Galactic rotation. Since the first discovery of HVCs in 1963, their origins have been debated for decades but are still not settled down, because…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-06-19 Yu-Ting Wang , Chao Liu , Zhi-Yu Zhang

Using data from the Southern Galactic Plane Survey (SGPS) we analyze an HI self-absorption cloud centered on l = 318.0 deg, b = -0.5 deg, and velocity, v = -1.1 km/s. The cloud was observed with the Australia Telescope Compact Array (ATCA)…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 D. W. Kavars , J. M. Dickey , N. M. McClure-Griffiths , B. M. Gaensler , A. J. Green

We present a new measurement, 0.85-3.5 Z_solar, of the metallicity of high velocity cloud (HVC) Complex M by analyzing ultraviolet spectroscopic observations of the blazar Mrk 421 taken with the Cosmic Origins Spectrograph on the Hubble…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-27 Yangsen Yao , J. Michael Shull , Charles W. Danforth

Previous HST and FUSE observations have revealed highly ionized high-velocity clouds (HVCs) or more generally low HI column HVCs along extragalactic sightlines over 70-90% of the sky. The distances of these HVCs have remained largely…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-14 N. Lehner , J. C. Howk

Young HII regions are an important site to study O star formation based on distributions of ionized and molecular gas. We revealed that two molecular clouds at $\sim 48$ km s$^{-1}$ and $\sim 53$ km s$^{-1}$ are associated with the HII…

We present fully-sampled maps of 461 GHz CO (4-3), 807 GHz CO (7-6), and 492 GHz [CI] (3P1-3P0) emission from the inner 3 degrees of the Galactic Center region taken with the Antarctic Submillimeter Telescope and Remote Observatory (AST/RO)…

We present the detections of CO line emission in the central galaxy of sixteen extreme cooling flow clusters using the IRAM 30m and the JCMT 15m. These detections of CO(1-0), CO(2-1), CO(3-2) and CO(4-3) are consistent with the presence of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-07-09 A. C. Edge

Compact high-velocity clouds (CHVCs) are the most distant of the HVCs in the Local Group model and would have HI volume densities of order 0.0003/cm^3. Clouds with these volume densities and the observed neutral hydrogen column densities…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Philip R. Maloney , Mary E. Putman

We present an analysis of high-resolution mid-infrared observations at 25 and 37 $\mu m$ of the Sagittarius C Complex (Sgr C) in the Central Molecular Zone (CMZ), based on data from the SOFIA/FORCAST Galactic Center Legacy Survey. Enabled…

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We report the first detection of a hot molecular core outside our Galaxy based on radio observations with ALMA toward a high-mass young stellar object (YSO) in a nearby low metallicity galaxy, the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC). Molecular…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-08-17 Takashi Shimonishi , Takashi Onaka , Akiko Kawamura , Yuri Aikawa

This study presents a catalog of 8107 molecular clouds that covers the entire Galactic plane and includes 98% of the $^{12}$CO emission observed within $b\pm5^\circ$. The catalog was produced using a hierarchical cluster identification…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-01-11 Marc-Antoine Miville-Deschênes , Norman Murray , Eve J. Lee

We present 0".97 $\times$ 0".53 (470 pc $\times$ 250 pc) resolution CO ($J$ = 2-1) observations toward the nearby luminous merging galaxy NGC 6240 with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array. We confirmed a strong CO concentration…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-02-14 T. Saito , D. Iono , J. Ueda , D. Espada , K. Sliwa , K. Nakanishi , N. Lu , C. K. Xu , T. Michiyama , H. Kaneko , T. Yamashita , M. Ando , M. S. Yun , K. Motohara , R. Kawabe

We have surveyed the central molecular zone (CMZ) of our Galaxy in the CO J=3-2 line with the Atacama Submillimeter-wave Telescope Experiment (ASTE). Molecular gas in the Galactic center shows high J=3-2/J=1-0 intensity ratio (~ 0.9) while…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Tomoharu Oka , Makoto Nagai , Kazuhisa Kamegai , Kunihiko Tanaka , Nobuyuki Kuboi

High velocity gas that does not conform to Galactic rotation is observed throughout the Galaxy's halo. One component of this gas, HI high velocity clouds (HVCs), have attracted attention since their discovery in the 1960s and remain…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-08-24 Asger Grønnow , Thor Tepper-García , Joss Bland-Hawthorn , Naomi McClure-Griffiths