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The Central Molecular Zone (CMZ) at the center of our Galaxy is the best template to study star formation processes under extreme conditions, similar to those in high-redshift galaxies. We observed on-the-fly maps of para-H$_{2}$CO…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-11-09 K. Immer , J. Kauffmann , T. Pillai , A. Ginsburg , K. M. Menten

This letter presents a Nyquist-sampled, high-resolution [CI] 3P1-3P0 map of the -0.2 deg < l < 1.2 deg x -0.1 deg < b < 0 deg region in the Central Molecular Zone (CMZ) taken with the Atacama Submillimeter Telescope Experiment (ASTE) 10 m…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-03 Kunihiko Tanaka , Tomoharu Oka , Shinji Matsumura , Makoto Nagai , Kazuhisa Kamegai

We present the first systematic study of the density structure of clouds found in a complete sample covering all major molecular clouds in the Central Molecular Zone (CMZ; inner $\sim{}200~\rm{}pc$) of the Milky Way. This is made possible…

We recently reported a population of protostellar candidates in the 20 km s$^{-1}$ cloud in the Central Molecular Zone of the Milky Way, traced by H$_2$O masers in gravitationally bound dense cores. In this paper, we report…

We reanalyze the catalogs of molecular clouds in the Local Group to determine the parameters of their mass distributions in a uniform manner. The analysis uses the error-in-variables method of parameter estimation which accounts not only…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 E. Rosolowsky

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

The nucleus of the Milky Way is known to drive a large-scale, multiphase galactic outflow, with gas phases ranging from the hot highly-ionized to the cold molecular component. In this work, we present the first systematic search for…

We used the Atacama Pathfinder Experiment (APEX) 12 m telescope to observe the J_KaKc=3_03-2_02, 3_22-2_21, and 3_21-2_20 transitions of para-H_2CO at 218 GHz simultaneously to determine kinetic temperatures of the dense gas in the central…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-12 Y. Ao , C. Henkel , K. M. Menten , M. A. Requena-Torres , T. Stanke , R. Mauersberger , S. Aalto , S. Muehle , J. Mangum

Using the HST archive WFPC2 observations and rotation curves measeured by Vogt et al. (1996), we constructed self-consistent light and mass distribution models for three disk galaxies at redshifts z = 0.15, 0.90 and 0.99. The models consist…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Antti Tamm , Peeter Tenjes

We derive radial and vertical distributions of HI and H2 gas densities in our Galaxy by using the terminal velocity method. We calculate the molecular fraction (f_mol) defined as the ratio of the molecular hydrogen to total hydrogen gas…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 K. Imamura , Y. Sofue

We present new high resolution numerical simulations of the ISM in a central R ~32 parsecs region around a supermassive black hole at a galactic center. Three-dimensional hydrodynamic modeling of the ISM (Wada & Norman 2002) with the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-10-05 Keiichi Wada , Padeli Papadopoulos , Marco Spaans

We present the highest resolution (1") $^{12}$CO(1-0) observations of molecular gas in the dwarf starburst galaxy NGC 625, to date, obtained with ALMA. Molecular gas is distributed in discrete clouds within an area of $0.4$ kpc$^2$ and does…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-05-27 Nia Imara , Ilse De Looze , Christopher M. Faesi , Diane Cormier

We present an analysis of gas densities in the central R=300 parsecs of the Milky Way, focusing on three clouds: GCM-0.02-0.07 (the 50 km/s cloud), GCM-0.13-0.08 (the 20 km/s cloud), and GCM0.25+0.01 (the "Brick"). Densities are determined…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-11-28 E. A. C. Mills , A. Ginsburg , K. Immer , J. M Barnes , L. Wiesenfeld , A. Faure , M. R. Morris , M. A. Requena-Torres

Star formation occurs in molecular gas. In previous studies, the structure of the molecular gas has been studied in terms of molecular clouds, but has been overlooked beyond the cloud scale. We present an observational study of the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2013-11-01 Guang-Xing Li , Friedrich Wyrowski , Karl Menten , Arnaud Belloche

Using the IRAM 30m telescope, we have surveyed an unbiased sample of 47 nearby spiral galaxies of very late (Scd-Sm) Hubble-type for emission in the CO(1-0) and CO(2-1) lines. The sensitivity of our data (a few mK) allows detection of about…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 T. Boeker , U. Lisenfeld , E. Schinnerer

We have carried out sub-mm 12CO(J=3-2) observations of 6 giant molecular clouds (GMCs) in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) with the ASTE 10m sub-mm telescope at a spatial resolution of 5 pc and very high sensitivity. We have identified 32…

Galactic winds are essential to regulation of star formation in galaxies. To study the distribution and dynamics of molecular gas in a wind, we imaged the nearby starburst galaxy NGC 1482 in CO ($J=1\rightarrow0$) at a resolution of 1''…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-10-14 Dragan Salak , Naomasa Nakai , Kazuo Sorai , Yusuke Miyamoto

We carried out deep searches for CO line emission in the outer disk of M33, at R>7 kpc, and examined the dynamical conditions that can explain variations in the mass distribution of the molecular cloud throughout the disk of M33. We used…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-02-20 Edvige Corbelli , Jonathan Braine , Carlo Giovanardi

We use the Herschel Hi-GAL survey data to study the spatial distribution in Galactic longitude and latitude of the interstellar medium and of dense, star-forming clumps in the inner Galaxy. The peak position and width of the latitude…