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We make a comprehensive study of HI absorption toward HII regions located within Galactic longitudes less than 10 degrees. Structures in the extreme inner Galaxy are traced using the longitude-velocity space distribution of this absorption.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-16 C. Jones , J. M. Dickey , J. R. Dawson , N. M. McClure-Griffiths , L. D. Anderson , T. M. Bania

We report serendipitous detections of line emission with ALMA in band 3, 6, and 7 in the central parsec of the Galactic center at an up to now highest resolution (<0.7''). Among the highlights are the very first and highly resolved images…

Until now the known sources in the Galactic center with sufficiently smooth spectra and of sufficient brightness to be suitable for high resolution infrared absorption spectroscopy of interstellar gas occupied a narrow range of longitudes,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-14 T. R. Geballe , T. Oka

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

We present near-infrared spectroscopy and 1 mm line and continuum observations of a recently identified site of high mass star formation likely to be located in the Central Molecular Zone near Sgr C. Located on the outskirts of the massive…

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 expanding molecular ring (EMR) manifests itself as a parallelogram in the position-velocity diagram of spectral line emission from the Central Molecular Zone (CMZ) surrounding the Galacic centre (GC). Using multiwavelength data, we…

We report the GMRT detection of associated HI 21 cm-line absorption in the z=1.1946 red quasar 3C 190. Most of the absorption is blue-shifted with respect to the systemic redshift. The absorption, at $\sim$ 647.7 MHz, is broad and complex,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-23 C. H. Ishwara-Chandra , K. S. Dwarakanath , K. R. Anantharamaiah

Two selected regions in the molecular gas spiral arms in M51 were mapped with the Owens Valley Radio Observatory (OVRO) mm-interferometer in the 12CO(2-1), 13CO(1-0), C18O(1-0), HCN(1-0) and HCO+(1-0) emission lines. The CO data have been…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 E. Schinnerer , A. Weiss , S. Aalto , N. Z. Scoville

We investigate the structure of the Milky Way by determining how features in a spatial map correspond to CO features in a velocity map. We examine structures including logarithmic spiral arms, a ring and a bar. We explore the available…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-03 C. L. Dobbs , A. Burkert

We present an 11 arcsec resolution map of the central two parsecs of the Galaxy in the CO J =7->6 rotational transition. The CO emission shows rotation about Sgr A*, but also evidence for non-circular turbulent motion and a clumpy…

A comprehensive 3-D model of the central 300 pc of the Milky Way, the Central Molecular Zone (CMZ) is of fundamental importance in understanding energy cycles in galactic nuclei, since the 3-D structure influences the location and intensity…

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

We have obtained maps of the molecular emission within the central five arcminutes (12 pc) of the Galactic center (GC) in selected molecular tracers: SiO(2-1), HNCO(5_{0,5}-4_{0,4}), and the J=1-->0 transition of H^{13}CO+, HN^{13}C, and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-20 M. A. Amo-Baladrón , J. Martín-Pintado , S. Martín

We derive the physical properties of 580 molecular clouds based on their 12CO and 13CO line emission detected in the University of Massachusetts-Stony Brook (UMSB) and Galactic Ring surveys. We provide a range of values of the physical…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-20 Julia Roman-Duval , James M. Jackson , Mark Heyer , Jill Rathborne , Robert Simon

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…

Using a combination of observations involving the VLA, MERLIN and global VLBI networks we have made a detailed study of the radio continuum and the neutral hydrogen (HI) kinematics and distribution within the central kiloparsec of the radio…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 R. J. Beswick , A. B. Peck , G. B. Taylor , G. Giovannini

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

We study the structure and kinematics of the OH-streamer and the +80 km/s cloud and their interactions with the circumnuclear disk (CND) and with other molecular clouds in the vicinity of the Galactic centre (GC), and we map OH absorption…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-11-04 Roland Karlsson , Aage Sandqvist , Kambiz Fathi , Sergio Martín

We report 350 and 230 GHz observations of molecular gas and dust in the starburst nucleus of NGC 253 at 20-40 pc (1"-2") resolution. The data contain CO(3-2), HCN(4-3), CO(2-1), 13CO(2-1), C18O(2-1), and continuum at 0.87 mm and 1.3 mm…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Kazushi Sakamoto , Rui-Qing Mao , Satoki Matsushita , Alison B. Peck , Tsuyoshi Sawada , Martina C. Wiedner