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Massive stars are crucial building blocks of galaxies and the universe, as production sites of heavy elements and as stirring agents and energy providers through stellar winds and supernovae. The field of magnetic massive stars has seen…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Rolf Walder , Doris Folini , Georges Meynet

Strong magnetic fields are observed in a substantial fraction of upper main sequence stars and white dwarfs. Many such stars are observed to exhibit photometric modulations as the magnetic poles rotate in and out of view, which could be a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-22 Jim Fuller , Stephane Mathis

Research on Galactic Center star formation is making great advances, in particular due to new data from interferometers spatially resolving molecular clouds in this environment. These new results are discussed in the context of established…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-02-22 Jens Kauffmann

Near-infrared polarimetry of point sources reveals the presence of a toroidal magnetic field in the central 20' x 20' region of our Galaxy. Comparing the Stokes parameters between high extinction stars and relatively low extinction ones, we…

The Central Molecular Zone (CMZ, the central 500 pc of the Milky Way) contains the largest reservoir of high-density molecular gas in the Galaxy, but forms stars at a rate 10-100 times below commonly-used star formation relations. We…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-02-22 J. M. Diederik Kruijssen

We report the results of a 5-field mosaic of the central 15pc of the Galaxy in the (1,1) and (2,2) lines of NH3. Two narrow filaments or streamers are seen running parallel to the Galactic plane. The southern streamer appears to carry gas…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 A. L. Coil , P. T. P. Ho

As part of a series of papers aimed at understanding the evolution of the Milky Way's Central Molecular Zone (CMZ), we present hydrodynamical simulations of turbulent molecular clouds orbiting in an accurate model of the gravitational…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-04-10 James E. Dale , J. M. Diederik Kruijssen , S. N. Longmore

Atomic gas in the diffuse interstellar medium (ISM) is organized in filamentary structures. These structures usually host cold and dense molecular clumps. The Galactic magnetic field is considered to play an important role in the formation…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-09-14 R. Skalidis , K. Tassis , G. V. Panopoulou , J. L. Pineda , Y. Gong , N. Mandarakas , D. Blinov , S. Kiehlmann , J. A. Kypriotakis

The Galactic halo contains a complex ecosystem of multiphase intermediate-velocity and high-velocity gas clouds whose origin has defied clear explanation. They are generally believed to be involved in a Galaxy-wide recycling process, either…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-10-10 Asger Grønnow , Thor Tepper-García , Joss Bland-Hawthorn

By performing a global magnetohydrodynamical (MHD) simulation for the Milky Way with an axisymmetric gravitational potential, we propose that spatially dependent amplification of magnetic fields possibly explains the observed noncircular…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-02-22 Takeru K. Suzuki , Yasuo Fukui , Kazufumi Torii , Mami Machida , Ryoji Matsumoto , Kensuke Kakiuchi

We bring the two color maps for the plane component magnetic field of our Galaxy in coordinates of (R;l) and (DM;l). It was shown that magnetic field has reversals of the direction in neighbor spiral arms, in agreement with known models for…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2010-12-06 R. Andreasyan , S. Balayan , V. Movsisyan

The Milky Way's Central Molecular Zone (CMZ) is the largest concentration of dense molecular gas in the Galaxy, the structure of which is shaped by the complex interplay between Galactic-scale dynamics and extreme physical conditions.…

A decade ago, there was very limited knowledge of magnetic fields of our Galaxy. The local fields in the Solar vicinity were known to be directed towards a Galactic longitude $l\sim~90^{\circ}$ with reversed directions at smaller…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. L. Han

Observations of the Milky Way and external galaxies support the idea that large-scale magnetic fields are concentrated in galactic disks, with halo magnetic fields at least an order of magnitude weaker. However, very little is known about…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-03-04 Bailey Forster , Tyler J. Foster , Roland Kothes , Alex S. Hill , Jo-Anne Brown

The Central Molecular Zone (CMZ) of the Milky Way is fed by gas inflows from the Galactic disk along almost radial trajectories aligned with the major axis of the Galactic bar. However, despite being fundamental to all processes in the…

We study the large-scale magnetic field structure and its interplay with the gas dynamics in the Monoceros OB1 East molecular cloud. We combine observations of dust polarised emission from the Planck telescope and CO molecular line emission…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-03-14 D. Alina , J. Montillaud , Y. Hu , A. Lazarian , I. Ristorcelli , E. Abdikamalov , S. Sagynbayeva , M. Juvela , T. Liu , J. -S. Carrière

We carry out a systematic study of the density structure of gas in the Central Molecular Zone (CMZ) in the Galactic center by extracting clumps from the APEX Telescope Large Area Survey of the Galaxy survey at 870 $\mu$m. We find that the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-07-15 Guang-Xing Li , Chuan-Peng Zhang

We argue that clusters of galaxies have an intergalactic medium, which is permeated by strong magnetic fields and also has a contribution of pressure from cosmic rays. These two components of total pressure are probably highly time…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-16 Peter L. Biermann , Torsten A. Enßlin , Hyesung Kang , Hyesook Lee , Dongsu Ryu

Magnetic fields are an important component of the interstellar medium (ISM) of galaxies. The thermal gas in the ISM has a multiphase structure, broadly divided into ionised, atomic, and molecular phases. The connection between the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-04-01 Amit Seta , N. M. McClure-Griffiths

The origin of the Galactic center diffuse X-ray emission (GCDX) is still under intense investigation. We have found a clear excess in a longitudinal GCDX profile over a stellar number density profile in the nuclear bulge region, suggesting…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-18 Shogo Nishiyama , Kazuki Yasui , Tetsuya Nagata , Tatsuhito Yoshikawa , Hideki Uchiyama , Motohide Tamura