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The center of M83, a barred starburst galaxy with a double nucleus, has been observed in the CO(J=2-1) and CO(J=3-2) lines with the Submillimeter Array. The molecular gas shows a distribution and kinematics typical for barred galaxies at…

Gas in galactic disks is collected by gravitational instabilities into giant atomic-molecular complexes, but only the inner, molecular parts of these structures are able to collapse to form stars. Determining what controls the ratio of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Mark R. Krumholz , Christopher F. McKee , Jason Tumlinson

We created a three-dimensional distribution map of molecular gas throughout the Milky Way Galaxy using the latest $^{12}$CO($J=$1--0) survey data cube and rotation curve based on the kinematic distance. The radial distribution of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Hiroyuki Nakanishi , Yoshiaki Sofue

I present interferometric images (approx. 7" resolution) of CO emission in five elliptical galaxies and nondetections in two others. These data double the number of elliptical galaxies whose CO emission has been fully mapped. The sample…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 L. M. Young

The vertical scaleheight of the atomic hydrogen gas shows a remarkably flat distribution with the galactocentric radius in the inner Galaxy. This has been a long-standing puzzle (Oort 1962) because the gas scaleheight should increase with…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Chaitra A. Narayan , Chanda J. Jog

We present low frequency observations at $315$ and $745$ MHz from the upgraded Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope (uGMRT) of the edge-on, nearby galaxy NGC $4631$. We compare the observed surface brightness profiles along the minor axis of the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-02-09 Aditi Vijayan , K. S. Dwarakanath , Biman B. Nath , Ruta Kale

We use the ~370 square degrees data from the MWISP CO survey to study the vertical distribution of the molecular clouds (MCs) toward the tangent points in the region of l=[16,52]deg and |b|<5.1deg. The molecular disk consists of two…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-04-14 Yang Su , Ji Yang , Qing-Zeng Yan , Shaobo Zhang , Hongchi Wang , Yan Sun , Zhiwei Chen , Chen Wang , Xin Zhou , Xuepeng Chen , Zhibo Jiang , Min Wang

We present high-spatial-resolution ($\sim 0\farcs2$, or $\sim$3\,pc) CO(2--1) observations of the nearest young starburst dwarf galaxy, NGC\,5253, taken with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array. We have identified 118 molecular…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-10-10 Rie E. Miura , Daniel Espada , Akihiko Hirota , Kouichiro Nakanishi , George J. Bendo , Hajime Sugai

Based on measurements with the Effelsberg 100-m telescope, a multi-line study of molecular species is presented toward the gravitational lens system PKS1830-211. Obtaining average radial velocities and performing Large Velocity Gradient…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 C. Henkel , K. M. Menten , M. T. Murphy , N. Jethava , V. V. Flambaum , J. A. Braatz , S. Muller , J. Ott , R. Q. Mao

Supermassive black hole (SMBH) masses can be measured using molecular gas kinematics. Here we present high angular resolution ($0.12$ arcsec or $\approx11$ pc) Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array observations of the $^{12}$CO(2-1)…

NGC 4945 is one of the nearest (~3.8 Mpc; 1" ~ 19 pc) starburst galaxies. ALMA band 3 (3--4\,mm) observations of HCN, HCO+, CS, C3H2, SiO, HCO, and CH3C2H were carried out with ~2" resolution. The lines reveal a rotating nuclear disk of…

Based on measurements with the Effelsberg 100-m telescope, a multi-line study of molecular species is presented toward the south-western source of the gravitational lens system PKS 1830-211, which is by far the best known target to study…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-02-04 A. Schulz , C. Henkel , K. M. Menten , S. Muller , D. Muders , J. Bagdonaite , W. Ubachs

Observations of spiral galaxies show a strong linear correlation between the ratio of molecular to atomic hydrogen surface density R_mol and midplane pressure. To explain this, we simulate three-dimensional, magnetized turbulence, including…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-20 Mordecai-Mark Mac Low , Simon C. O. Glover

We present hydrodynamic simulations of gas clouds inflowing from the disk to a few hundred parsec region of the Milky Way. A gravitational potential is generated to include realistic Galactic structures by using thousands of multipole…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-05-31 Jihye Shin , Sungsoo S. Kim , Junichi Baba , Takayuki R. Saitoh , Jeong-Sun Hwang , Kyungwon Chun , Shunsuke Hozumi

The nearby spiral galaxy NGC 7331 was spectrally mapped from 5-38um using all modules of Spitzer's IRS spectrograph. A strong new dust emission feature, presumed due to PAHs, was discovered at 17.1um. The feature's intensity is nearly half…

We self-consistently determine the 3D density distribution of NGC 551's stellar disk and study observational signatures of two-component stellar disks. Assuming baryonic disks are in hydrostatic equilibrium, we solved the Poisson-Boltzmann…

We present the results of ALMA-ACA 7 m-array observations in $^{12}$CO($J=2-1$), $^{13}$CO($J=2-1$), and C$^{18}$O($J=2-1$) line emission toward the molecular-gas disk in the Local Group spiral galaxy M33 at an angular resolution of 7".31…

As part of the mm-Wave Interferometric Survey of Dark Object Masses (WISDOM) project we present an estimate of the mass of the supermassive black hole (SMBH) in the nearby fast-rotating early-type galaxy NGC4429, that is barred and has a…

We analyzed the 2.6-mm CO and 21-cm HI lines toward the Magellanic superbubble 30 Doradus C, in order to reveal the associated molecular and atomic gas. We uncovered five molecular clouds in a velocity range from 251 to 276 km s$^{-1}$…