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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 present measurements of interstellar H_2 absorption lines in the continuum spectra of seven early-type stars in the Galactic disk at distances between 1 and 4 kpc. Five of these stars provide lines of sight through the Sagittarius spiral…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 W. Van Dyke Dixon , Mark Hurwitz , Stuart Bowyer

We have studied the molecular hydrogen energetics of the edge-on spiral galaxy NGC\,891, using a 34-position map in the lowest three pure rotational H$_2$ lines observed with the Spitzer Infrared Spectrograph. The S(0), S(1), and S(2) lines…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 G. J. Stacey , V. Charmandaris , F. Boulanger , Yanling Wu , F. Combes , S. J. U. Higdon , J. D. T. Smith , T. Nikola

We have mapped two molecular clouds at (l, b) = (3.2 degrees, + 0.3 degrees) and (l, b) = (5.4 degrees, -0.5 degrees) in 21-cm line and continuum emission. These clouds show unusually large velocity dispersions of more than 100 km/s (FWHM)…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Harald Riffert , Pawan Kumar , W. K. Huchtmeier

We present a study of molecular hyrogen (H_2) in the SMC gas, based on space shuttle Far UV spectroscopy with ORFEUS and the Tuebingen echelle spectrograph, in the line of sight to the SMC star HD 5980. 17 absorption lines from the Lyman…

(Abridge) Near-infrared spectroscopy is used to study the kinematics and excitation mechanisms of the H2 and [FeII] gas in a sample of AGN. The H2 lines are unresolved in all objects in which they were detected while the [FeII] lines have…

In this paper we present the distribution of molecular gas in the Milky Way Galactic plane from $l$ = [59.75, 74.75]$^{\circ}$ and $b$ = [${-}$5.25, +5.25]$^{\circ}$, using the MWISP $^{12}$CO/$^{13}$CO/$\rm {C}^{18}{O}$ emission line data.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-08-02 Chunxue Li , Hongchi Wang , Yuehui Ma , Lianghao Lin , Yang Su , Chong Li , Yan Sun , Xin Zhou , Ji Yang

The centre of the Milky Way is the site of several high-energy processes that have strongly impacted the inner regions of our Galaxy. Activity from the super-massive black hole, Sgr A*, and/or stellar feedback from the inner molecular ring…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-08-24 Enrico M. Di Teodoro , Naomi M. McClure-Griffiths , Felix J. Lockman , Lucia Armillotta

We use high signal-to-noise ratio, high-resolution VLT-UVES data of Q J0643-5041 amounting to a total of more than 23 hours exposure time and fit the neutral hydrogen, metals and H2 absorption features with multiple-component Voigt…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-05-09 D. Albornoz Vásquez , H. Rahmani , P. Noterdaeme , P. Petitjean , R. Srianand , C. Ledoux

To interpret the galactic center H II region complexes as constituents of a barred galaxy's nuclear star-forming ring, we compare 18cm VLA radiocontinuumm, $8-22\mu$ MSX IR and 2.6mm BTL and ARO12m CO emission in the inner few hundred pc.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2009-05-12 H. S. Liszt

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

Edge Cloud 2 (EC2) is a molecular cloud, about 35 pc in size, with one of the largest galactocentric distances known to exist in the Milky Way. We present observations of a peak CO emission region in the cloud and use these to determine its…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 P. M. E. Ruffle , T. J. Millar , H. Roberts , D. A. Lubowich , C. Henkel , J. M. Pasachoff , G. Brammer , .

Recent spectroscopic observations of intermediate- and high-velocity clouds (IVCs and HVCs) in the Milky Way halo have unveiled the presence of diffuse interstellar molecular hydrogen (H_2) several kpc away from the Galactic disk. Most of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Philipp Richter

We present the far-ultraviolet (FUV) fluorescent molecular hydrogen (H_2) emission map of the Milky Way Galaxy obtained with FIMS/SPEAR covering ~76% of the sky. The extinction-corrected intensity of the fluorescent H_2 emission has a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-08-23 Young-Soo Jo , Kwang-Il Seon , Kyoung-Wook Min , Jerry Edelstein , Wonyong Han

Three molecular clouds have been mapped in the nearby metal-poor dwarf irregular galaxy NGC 6822 using the Owens Valley Millimeter-Wave Interferometer. Based on upper limits to the virial masses of the clouds, the CO-to-H2 conversion factor…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-22 C. D. Wilson

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

We use archival UV absorption-line data from HST/STIS to statistically analyse the absorption characteristics of the high-velocity clouds (HVCs) in the Galactic halo towards more than 40 extragalactic background sources. We determine…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Peter Herenz , Philipp Richter , Jane C. Charlton , Joseph R. Masiero

Spectrum analysis at 3 mm of the central region ($r\sim$800 pc) of NGC\,4303 showed molecular gas lines of both dense gas tracers (HCN, HNC, HCO$^+$, and C$_2$H) and diffuse gases ($^{13}$CO and C$^{18}$O). Molecular gas derived parameters:…

We present the first detection of molecular hydrogen (H_2) UV absorption profiles on the line of sight to the LMC. The star LH 10:3120 in the LMC was measured with the ORFEUS telescope and the Tuebingen echelle spectrograph during the space…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 K. S. de Boer , P. Richter , D. J. Bomans , A. Heithausen , J. Koornneef

We present Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer (FUSE) and Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph (STIS E140M) observations of the post-asymptotic giant branch star ZNG 1 in the globular cluster Messier 5 (l=3.9, b=+47.7; d=7.5 kpc, z=+5.3…