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We report the detection of a peculiar molecular cloud, CO 0.02-0.02, lying about 5' Galactic-east from the center of the Galaxy. (12)CO images taken with NRO 45 m telescope showed that it is relatively compact (about 3x4 pc^2) as well as…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 T. Oka , G. J. White , T. Hasegawa , F. Sato , M. Tsuboi , A. Miyazaki

We mapped the high-velocity compact cloud CO-0.40-0.22 in 21 molecular lines in the 3 mm band using the Nobeyama Radio Observatory 45 m radio telescope. Eighteen lines were detected from CO-0.40-0.22. The map of each detected line shows…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-01-13 Tomoharu Oka , Reiko Mizuno , Kodai Miura , Shunya Takekawa

We report the detection of extremely broad emission toward two molecular clumps in the Galactic central molecular zone. We have mapped the Sagittarius C complex ($-0^\circ.61 < l < -0^\circ.27$, $-0^\circ.29 < b < 0^\circ.04$) in the HCN…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-18 Kunihiko Tanaka , Tomoharu Oka , Shinji Matsumura , Makoto Nagai , Kazuhisa Kamegai

The high velocity dispersion compact cloud CO-0.30-0.07 is a peculiar molecular clump discovered in the central moleculr zone of the Milky Way, which is characterized by its extremely broad velocity emissions ($\sim 145\ \rm{km s^{-1}}$)…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-06-28 Kunihiko Tanaka , Makoto Nagai , Kazuhisa Kamegai , Tomoharu Oka

We report the results of observations toward the center of the molecular cloud CO 0.02-0.02 made using the Atacama Large Millimeter/Submillimeter Array. The successfully obtained 1 arcsec resolution images of CO $J$=3-2, H$^{13}$CN $J$=4-3,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-06-14 Yuhei Iwata , Tomoharu Oka , Shunya Takekawa , Shiho Tsujimoto , Rei Enokiya

CO--0.40--0.22 is a peculiar molecular cloud that is compact and has an extraordinary broad velocity width. It is found in the central molecular zone of our Galaxy. In this direction, there is another cloud with an H$_2$O maser spot at a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-05-10 Yuhei Iwata , Haruka Kato , Daisuke Sakai , Tomoharu Oka

We report the results of molecular line observations toward the l=1.3 deg complex, ananomalous cloud complex in the central molecular zone of the Galaxy. We have taken high resolution maps of the CO J=1-0, HCN J=1-0, HCO+ J=1-0, SiO J=1-0…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Kunihiko Tanaka , Kazuhisa Kamegai , Makoto Nagai , Tomoharu Oka

We present 1"-resolution ALMA observations of the circumnuclear disk (CND) and the environment around SgrA*. The images unveil the presence of small spatial scale CO (J=3-2) molecular "cloudlets" within the central pc of the Milky Way,…

In this paper, we report the discovery of an isolated, peculiar compact cloud with a steep velocity gradient at $2\farcm 6$ northwest of Sgr A*. This ``Tadpole'' molecular cloud is unique owing to its characteristic head-tail structure in…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-01-13 Miyuki Kaneko , Tomoharu Oka , Hiroki Yokozuka , Rei Enokiya , Shunya Takekawa , Yuhei Iwata , Shiho Tsujimoto

The properties of molecular gas, the fuel that forms stars, inside the cavity of the circumnuclear disk (CND) are not well constrained. We present results of a velocity-resolved submillimeter scan (~480 to 1250 GHz}) and [CII]158um line…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-08-22 Javier R. Goicoechea , M. G. Santa-Maria , D. Teyssier , J. Cernicharo , M. Gerin , J. Pety

The high velocity gradient observed in the compact cloud CO-0.40-0.22, at a projected distance of 60 pc from the centre of the Milky Way, has led its discoverers to identify the closeby mm continuum emitter, CO-0.40-0.22*, with an…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-09-12 Alessandro Ballone , Michela Mapelli , Mario Pasquato

We discovered two small high-velocity compact clouds (HVCCs) in HCN $J=4-3$ and $J=3-2$ maps of the central 20 pc of our Galaxy. Both HVCCs have broad velocity widths ($\Delta V \gtrsim 40$ km s$^{-1}$) and compact sizes ($d\sim 1$ pc), and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-07-19 Shunya Takekawa , Tomoharu Oka , Yuhei Iwata , Sekito Tokuyama , Mariko Nomura

We present high-resolution (~2-3"; ~0.1 pc) radio observations of the Galactic center cloud M0.10-0.08 using the Very Large Array at K and Ka band (~25 and 36 GHz). The M0.10-0.08 cloud is located in a complex environment near the Galactic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-09-21 Natalie O. Butterfield , Cornelia C. Lang , Adam Ginsburg , Mark R. Morris , Juergen Ott , Dominic A. Ludovici

This paper reports a re-analysis of archival ALMA data of the high velocity (-width) compact cloud (HVCC) CO-0.40-0.22, which has recently been hypothesized to host an intermediate-mass black Hole (IMBH). If beam-smearing effects,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-06-06 Kunihiko Tanaka

This study developed an automated identification procedure for compact clouds with broad velocity widths in the spectral line data cubes of highly crowded regions. The procedure was applied to the CO J=3-2 line data, obtained using the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-09-27 Tomoharu Oka , Asaka Uruno , Rei Enokiya , Taichi Nakamura , Yuto Yamasaki , Yuto Watanabe , Sekito Tokuyama , Yuhei Iwata

The outer Galaxy presents an optimal setting for investigating molecular clouds and star formation in environments with low metallicity. A total of 72 Galactic edge clouds were surveyed using the CO\,(2--1) line with the IRAM\,30\,m…

The data from the Nobeyama Radio Observatory 45 m telescope Galactic Center CO survey have been analyzed to generate a compilation of molecular clouds with intense CO emission in this region. Clouds are identified in an automated manner…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 T. Oka , T. Hasegawa , F. Sato , M. Tsuboi , A. Miyazaki

Using an absorption line from the metastable (J, K) = (3, 3) level of H3+ together with other lines of H3+ and CO observed along several sightlines, we have discovered a vast amount of high temperature (T ~ 250 K) and low density (n ~ 100…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Takeshi Oka , T. R. Geballe , Miwa Goto , Tomonori Usuda , B. J. McCall

This paper reports the discovery of evidence for physical contact between the Galactic circumnuclear disk (CND) and an exterior giant molecular cloud. The central 10 pc of our Galaxy has been imaged in the HCN J=1-0, HCO+ J=1-0, CS J=2-1,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-01-18 Shunya Takekawa , Tomoharu Oka , Kunihiko Tanaka

New HI images from the VLA Galactic Plane Survey (VGPS) show clear absorption features associated with the supernova remnant (SNR) G18.8+0.3. High-resolution $^{13}$CO images reveal that molecular clouds overlap the radio filaments of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 W. W. Tian , D. A. Leahy , Q. D. Wang
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