English
Related papers

Related papers: Multi-scale Magnetic Fields in the Central Molecul…

200 papers

The Survey of Water and Ammonia in the Galactic Center (SWAG) covers the Central Molecular Zone (CMZ) of the Milky Way at frequencies between 21.2 and 25.4 GHz obtained at the Australia Telescope Compact Array at $\sim 0.9$ pc spatial and…

Recent development of the velocity gradient technique shows the {\toreferee capability} of the technique in the way of tracing magnetic fields morphology in diffuse interstellar gas and molecular clouds. In this paper, we perform the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-02-01 Ka Wai Ho , Alex Lazarian

Magnetic fields permeate the Universe, including galaxy clusters, and affect the thermodynamical properties of the intra-cluster medium (ICM). Cosmological simulations predict that seed magnetic fields are amplified up to the $\mu$G-level…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-14 A. Pagliotta , C. J. Riseley , A. Bonafede , C. Stuardi , F. Loi

In this study, we apply the Velocity Gradient Technique (VGT) to the merging Centaurus galaxy. We compare gradient maps derived from the PHANGS-ALMA survey using CO emission lines with magnetic field tracings from dust polarization data…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-06-07 Quynh Lan Nguyen , Yue Hu , Alex Lazarian

The structures and dynamics of the interstellar medium are governed by a combination of self-gravity, external gravity, and various sources of ordered and random motions on different spatial scales. This paper uses ALMA CO (3-2)…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-04-27 Liam M. Wang , Jiayi Sun , Yu-Hsuan Teng , Eric W. Koch , Sanghyuk Moon , Elias Oakes , Erik Rosolowsky

The Zeeman effect and dust grain alignment are two major methods for probing magnetic fields (B-fields) in molecular clouds, largely motivated by the study of star formation, as the B-field may regulate gravitational contraction and channel…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-06-16 Hua-bai Li

We discuss a high resolution (FWHM~ 0.45 arcsec) image of the emissive polarization from warm dust in the minispiral in the Galactic Centre and discuss the implications for the magnetic field in the dusty filaments. The image was obtained…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-08-01 P. F. Roche , E. Lopez-Rodriguez , C. M. Telesco , R. Schodel , C. Packham

The central regions of galaxies harbor some of the most extreme physical phenomena, including dense stellar clusters, non-circular motions of molecular clouds and strong and pervasive magnetic field structures. In particular, radio…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-18 Cornelia C. Lang , Maria R. Drout

The atomic-to-molecular (HI-to-H$_2$) transition in photodissociation regions (PDRs) has been investigated over the last several decades through analytic and numerical modeling. However, classical PDR models typically assume uniform density…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-01-06 Yue Hu , A. Lazarian , Shmuel Bialy

We present first results from a submillimetre continuum survey of the Galactic Centre `Central Molecular Zone' (CMZ), made with SCUBA on the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope. SCUBA's scan-map mode has allowed us to make extremely wide-field…

Magnetic fields pervade in the interstellar medium (ISM) and are believed to be important in the process of star formation, yet probing magnetic fields in star formation regions is challenging. We propose a new method to use Faraday…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-06-27 M. Tahani , R. Plume , J. C. Brown , J. Kainulainen

The southwestern (SW) part of the Galactic H II region M17 contains an obscured ionization front that is most easily seen at infrared and radio wavelengths. It is nearly edge-on, thus offering an excellent opportunity to study the way in…

The Central Molecular Zone (CMZ; the central ~ 500 pc of the Galaxy) is a kinematically unusual environment relative to the Galactic disc, with high velocity dispersions and a steep size-linewidth relation of the molecular clouds. In…

The detection and study of magnetic fields surrounding galaxies is important to understand galaxy evolution since magnetic fields are tracers for dynamical processes in the circumgalactic medium (CGM) and can have a significant impact on…

A detailed comparison of HI and CO line cube data of the Galactic Center (GC) region from the archives is obtained. The central molecular zone (CMZ) is shown to be embedded in the HI disc (central HI zone, CHZ) of radius $\sim 320$ pc and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-08-24 Yoshiaki Sofue

(Abridged) We combine deep HST grism spectroscopy with a new Bayesian method to derive maps of gas-phase metallicity, nebular dust extinction, and star-formation rate for 10 star-forming galaxies at high redshift ($1.2<z<2.3$). Exploiting…

We present JWST-NIRCam narrow-band, 4.05 $\mu$m Brackett-$\alpha$ images of the Sgr C HII region, located in the Central Molecular Zone (CMZ) of the Galaxy. Unlike any HII region in the Solar vicinity, the Sgr C plasma is dominated by…

Nearby galaxies exhibit a variety of structures, including central rings, similar to the MW Central Molecular Zone (CMZ). These rings are common in barred galaxies and can be gas-rich and highly star-forming. We aim to study molecular gas…

The Central Molecular Zone (CMZ) of the Galactic Center has to date only been fully mapped at mm wavelengths with singledish telescopes, with resolution about 30$^{\prime\prime}$ (1.2 pc). Using CARMA, we mapped the innermost 0.25 square…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-11-29 Marc W. Pound , Farhad Yusef-Zadeh

We present a polarisation map of the warm dust emission from the minispiral in the central parsec of the Galactic centre. The observations were made at a wavelength of 12.5 microns with CanariCam mounted on the 10.4-m Gran Telescopio…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-02-20 PF Roche , E Lopez-Rodriguez , CM Telesco , R Schodel , C Packham