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The outflowing molecular gas in the circumnuclear disk (CND) of the nearby (D=14 Mpc) AGN-starburst composite galaxy NGC 1068 is considered as a manifestation of ongoing AGN feedback. The large spread of velocities from the outflowing gas…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-04-16 K. -Y. Huang , D. Abbink , S. Viti , S. García-Burillo

We investigate the fueling and the feedback of star formation and nuclear activity in NGC1068, a nearby (D=14Mpc) Seyfert 2 barred galaxy, by analyzing the distribution and kinematics of the molecular gas in the disk. We have used ALMA to…

The interstellar region within the few central parsecs around the super-massive black hole, Sgr A* at the very Galactic center is composed by a number of overlapping molecular structures which are subject to one of the most hostile physical…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-03 S. Martín , J. Martín-Pintado , M. Montero-Castaño , P. T. P. Ho , R. Blundell

Active galactic nuclei (AGNs) influence their host galaxies through winds and jets that can drive molecular outflows, traceable with CO line emissions using the Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA). Recent studies leveraging ALMA data have…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-05-28 Yuze Zhang , Serena Viti , Santiago García-Burillo , Ko-Yun Huang

We aim to shed light on the physical properties and kinematics of the molecular material in the nucleus of one of the closest type 2 active galaxies. To this end, we obtained high angular resolution ALMA observations of the nucleus of the…

Centaurus A, with its gas-rich elliptical host galaxy, NGC 5128, is the nearest radio galaxy at a distance of 3.8 Mpc. Its proximity allows us to study the interaction between an active galactic nucleus, radio jets, and molecular gas in…

We present an analysis of archival ISO observations of pure-rotational lines of H2 in three pointings in the central 3 parsecs of the Galaxy: toward the Southwest region and Northeast region of the Galactic center Circumnuclear Disk, and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-12-13 E. A. C. Mills , A. Togi , M. Kaufman

ALMA cycle 3 observations of $^{12}$CO $ J = 3\rightarrow2$, $^{13}$CO $J = 4\rightarrow 3$, SiO J = $8 \rightarrow 7$, and HCN J = $ 5 \rightarrow 4$ are presented. Significant extended emission is detected in $^{12}$CO J $ =…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-06-17 Jordan Wheeler , Jason Glenn , Naseem Rangwala , Adalyn Fyhrie

We used the Atacama Large Millimeter/Submillimeter Array (ALMA) to map the CO(3-2) and [CI](1-0) lines, as well as their underlying continuum emission, from the central $\sim 200$ pc region of the Circinus galaxy that hosts the nearest type…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-11-07 Takuma Izumi , Keiichi Wada , Ryosuke Fukushige , Sota Hamamura , Kotaro Kohno

We present large-scale submm observations towards the Sgr A Complex covering ~300 arcmin2. These data were obtained in the frame of the HEXGAL Program with the Herschel-HIFI satellite and are complemented with submm observations obtained…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-06-15 P. García , R. Simon , J. Stutzki , R. Güsten , M. A. Requena-Torres , R. Higgins

We report SOFIA/GREAT, Herschel/HIFI, and ground-based velocity-resolved spectroscopy of carbon monoxide (CO) rotational transitions from J=2-1 to J=16-15 toward two positions in the circum-nuclear disk (CND) in our Galactic center.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-04 M. A. Requena-Torres , R. Guesten , A. Weiss , A. I. Harris , J. Marin-Pintado , J. Stutzki , B. Klein , S. Heyminck , C. Risacher

We present the high angular resolution and high sensitivity images of the "Circum-Nuclear Disk (CND)" and its surrounding region of Milky Way Galaxy in the CS J=2-1, SiO v=0 J=2-1, H^13CO^+ J=1-0, C^34S J=2-1, and CH_3OH J_{K_a,…

Within a few parsecs around the central Black Hole Sgr A*, chemistry in the dense molecular cloud material of the circumnuclear disk (CND) can be affected by many energetic phenomena such as high UV-flux from the massive central star…

We model the emission of methyl cyanide (CH3CN) lines towards the massive hot molecular core SgrB2(M). We aim at reconstructing the CH3CN abundance field and investigating the gas temperature distribution as well as the velocity field.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-06-27 S. Pols , A. Schwoerer , P. Schilke , A. Schmiedeke , A. Sanchez-Monge , Th. Moeller

We present a large-scale, interferometric survey of ammonia (1,1) and (2,2) toward the Galactic Center observed with the Australia Telescope Compact Array (ATCA). The survey covers Delta l ~1degree (~150pc) at an assumed distance of 8.5…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-18 Juergen Ott , Axel Weiss , Lister Staveley-Smith , Christian Henkel , David S. Meier

The nearby Sy 1 galaxy NGC 1097 represents an ideal laboratory to explore the molecular chemistry in the presence and surroundings of an active galactic nucleus. Exploring the distribution of different molecular species allows us to…

We present a suite of ALMA interferometric molecular line and continuum images that elucidate, on linear size scales of $\sim$30--40 AU, the chemical structure of the nearby, evolved, protoplanetary disk orbiting the close binary system…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-22 Joel H. Kastner , C. Qi , D. A. Dickson-Vandervelde , P. Hily-Blant , T. Forveille , S. Andrews , U. Gorti , K. Öberg , D. Wilner

The angular resolution (~10") achieved by the Herschel Space Observatory ~3.5m telescope at FIR wavelengths allowed us to roughly separate the emission toward the inner parsec of the galaxy (the central cavity) from that of the surrounding…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-02-22 J. R. Goicoechea , M. Etxaluze , J. Cernicharo , M. Gerin , J. Pety

We present ALMA Band 6 observations of the CO(2-1), HCN(3-2), and HCO$^{+}$(3-2) lines in the nearby radio galaxy / brightest cluster galaxy (BCG) of NGC 1275 with the spatial resolution of $\sim20$ pc. In the previous observations, CO(2-1)…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-10-09 H. Nagai , K. Onishi , N. Kawakatu , Y. Fujita , M. Kino , Y. Fukazawa , J. Lim , W. Forman , J. Vrtilek , K. Nakanishi , H. Noda , K. Asada , K. Wajima , Y. Ohyama , L. David

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