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Using the PMO 13.7m telescope, we present large-field and high-sensitivity CO(1-0) line observations toward the Crab Nebula, in order to better understand the interstellar gas environment of this well-known historical supernova remnant. The…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-09-17 Xuepeng Chen , Dong Wang , Qianru He , Jiancheng Feng , Shiyu Zhang , Li Sun , Yang Su

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

We report on a study of the high-mass star formation in the the HII region W28A2 by investigating the molecular clouds extended over ~5-10 pc from the exciting stars using the 12CO and 13CO (J=1-0) and 12CO (J=2-1) data taken by the NANTEN2…

We have recently identified several high velocity (V < -100 km/s) clouds in the directions of Mrk 509 and PKS 2155-304 that have unusual ionization properties. The clouds exhibit strong C IV absorption with little or no detectable low ion…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Kenneth R. Sembach , Blair D. Savage , Limin Lu , Edward M. Murphy

We present a high-resolution study of the cold molecular gas as traced by CO(1-0) in the unlensed z$\sim$3.4 submillimeter galaxy SMM J13120+4242, using multi-configuration observations with the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (JVLA). The…

We compare the CO J =(1-0) and HI emission in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) in three dimensions, i.e. including a velocity axis in addition to the two spatial axes, with the aim of elucidating the physical connection between giant…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-11-20 Y. Fukui , A. Kawamura , T. Wong , M. Murai , H. Iritani , N. Mizuno , Y. Mizuno , T. Onishi , A. Hughes , J. Ott , E. Muller , L. Staveley-Smith , S. Kim

New observations of CO (J=1->0) line emission from M33, using the 25 element BEARS focal plane array at the Nobeyama Radio Observatory 45-m telescope, in conjunction with existing maps from the BIMA interferometer and the FCRAO 14-m…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 E. Rosolowsky , E. Keto , S. Matsushita , S. Willner

Large-scale CO surveys have revealed that the central molecular zone (CMZ) of our Galaxy is characterized by a number of expanding shells/arcs, and by a peculiar population of compact clouds with large velocity widths -- high-velocity…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2010-02-12 Tomoharu Oka , Kunihiko Tanaka , Shinji Matsumura , Makoto Nagai , Kazuhisa Kamegai , Tetsuo Hasegawa

We report the results of the CO $\textit J$=1-0 and SiO $\textit J$=2-1 mapping observations towards the broad-velocity-width molecular feature CO 16.134-0.553 with the Nobeyama Radio Observatory 45 m telescope. The high quality CO map…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-04-16 Hiroki Yokozuka , Tomoharu Oka , Shiho Tsujimoto , Yuto Watanabe , Miyuki Kaneko

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

Based on the MWISP survey, we study high-z CO emission toward the tangent points, in which the distances of the molecular clouds (MCs) are well determined. In the region of l=12-26 deg and |b|<5.1 deg, a total of 321 MCs with |z|> 110 pc…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-05-17 Yang Su , Shiyu Zhang , Ji Yang , Qing-Zeng Yan , Yan Sun , Hongchi Wang , Shaobo Zhang , Xuepeng Chen , Zhiwei Chen , Xin Zhou , Lixia Yuan

A set of diffuse interstellar clouds in the inner Galaxy within a few hundred pc of the Galactic plane has been observed at an angular resolution of ~1 arcmin combining data from the NRAO Green Bank Telescope and the Very Large Array. At…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-15 Yurii Pidopryhora , Felix J. Lockman , John M. Dickey , Michael P. Rupen

We present large-field (4.25~$\times$~3.75 deg$^2$) mapping observations toward the Galactic region centered at $l = 150\arcdeg, b = 3.5\arcdeg$ in the $J = 1-0$ emission line of CO isotopologues ($^{12}$CO, $^{13}$CO, and C$^{18}$O), using…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-03-27 Fang Xiong , Xuepeng Chen , Ji Yang , Min Fang , Shaobo Zhang , Miaomiao Zhang , Xinyu Du , Wenshan Long

We present the discovery of a 4 kpc molecular gas lane in the Cygnus A host galaxy, using ALMA CO 2-1 observations. The gas lane is oriented roughly perpendicular to the projected radio jet axis. The CO emission generally follows the clumpy…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-10-12 C. L. Carilli , R. A. Perley , D. A. Perley , V. Dhawan , R. Decarli , A. Evans , K. Nyland

We analyze new high spatial resolution (~60 pc) ALMA CO(2-1) observations of the isolated luminous infrared galaxy ESO 320-G030 (d=48 Mpc) in combination with ancillary HST optical and near-IR imaging as well as VLT/SINFONI near-IR integral…

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 report molecular line and dust continuum observations toward the high-mass star forming region G331.5-0.1, one of the most luminous regions of massive star-formation in the Milky Way, located at the tangent region of the Norma spiral…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-16 Manuel Merello , Leonardo Bronfman , Guido Garay , Lars-Ake Nyman , Neal J. Evans , C. Malcolm Walmsley

Observations with the Green Bank Telescope of 21cm HI emission from the high-velocity cloud Complex H suggest that it is interacting with the Milky Way. A model in which the cloud is a satellite of the Galaxy in an inclined, retrograde…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Felix J. Lockman

We studied the cloud-cloud collision candidate G323.18+0.15 based on signatures of induced filaments, clumps, and star formation. We used archival molecular spectrum line data from the SEDIGISM $^{13}$CO($J$\,=\,2--1) survey, from the Mopra…

We present observations of CO(3-2) and $^{13}$CO(3-2) emission near the supernebula in the dwarf galaxy NGC 5253, which contains one of the best examples of a potential globular cluster in formation. The 0.3" resolution images reveal an…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-05-15 J. L. Turner , S. M. Consiglio , S. C. Beck , W. M. Goss , P. T. P. Ho , D. S. Meier , S. Silich , J. -H. Zhao