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The high velocity dispersion compact cloud CO-0.30-0.07 is a peculiar molecular clump discovered in the central moleculr zone of the Milky Way, which is characterized by its extremely broad velocity emissions ($\sim 145\ \rm{km s^{-1}}$)…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-06-28 Kunihiko Tanaka , Makoto Nagai , Kazuhisa Kamegai , Tomoharu Oka

High-Velocity Clouds (HVCs) have radial velocities that cannot be explained by the global Galactic rotation; their distances remain mostly unknown, and their true nature and origin are still a mystery. Some of them could be of galactic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 F. Combes , V. Charmandaris

We compare velocity structure in the Polaris Flare molecular cloud at scales ranging from 0.015 pc to 20 pc to simulations of supersonic hydrodynamic and MHD turbulence computed with the ZEUS MHD code. We use several different statistical…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Volker Ossenkopf , Mordecai-Mark Mac Low

We present distances to 56 molecular clouds within $10\degr \leq l \leq 20\degr$ and $|b| \leq 5.25\degr$ from the Milky Way Imaging Scroll Painting (MWISP) $^{12}$CO survey, 47 of which are first-time determinations. The molecular clouds…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-04-20 Juan Mei , Zhiwei Chen , Min Fang , Miaomiao Zhang , Shiyu Zhang , Zhibo Jiang

We present observations of the CO isotopologues ($^{12}$CO, $^{13}$CO, and C$^{18}$O) toward the Galactic region with $169\arcdeg.75 \leqslant l \leqslant 174\arcdeg.75$ and $-0\arcdeg.75 \leqslant b \leqslant 0\arcdeg.5$, using the Purple…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-08-22 Fang Xiong , Xuepeng Chen , Qizhou Zhang , Ji Yang , Min Fang , Miaomiao Zhang , Weihua Guo , Li Sun

Many supernova remnants (SNRs) are considered to evolve in molecular environments, but the associations between SNRs and molecular clouds (MCs) are often unclear. Being aware of such ambiguous case, we report our study on the molecular…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-07-15 Xin Zhou , Yang Su , Ji Yang , Yang Chen , Ye Xu , Xuepeng Chen , Shaobo Zhang

We utilize the extensive datasets available for the Perseus molecular cloud to analyze the relationship between the kinematics of small-scale dense cores and the larger structures in which they are embedded. The kinematic measures presented…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-19 Helen Kirk , Jaime E. Pineda , Doug Johnstone , Alyssa Goodman

Velocity fields in the cosmic web are fundamental to structure formation but remain difficult to observe directly beyond the linear regime. Here we present observational evidence that galaxy filaments connecting pairs of galaxy clusters…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-27 Ji Yao , Huanyuan Shan , Pengjie Zhang , Xiaohu Yang , Jiale Zhou , Jiaxin Han , Peng Wang

The Galactic edge at Galactocentric distances of 14\,--\,22\,kpc provides an ideal laboratory to study molecular clouds in an environment that is different from the solar neighborhood, due to its lower gas density, lower metallicity, and…

This study developed an automated identification procedure for compact clouds with broad velocity widths in the spectral line data cubes of highly crowded regions. The procedure was applied to the CO J=3-2 line data, obtained using the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-09-27 Tomoharu Oka , Asaka Uruno , Rei Enokiya , Taichi Nakamura , Yuto Yamasaki , Yuto Watanabe , Sekito Tokuyama , Yuhei Iwata

To assess the velocity stability of CO spectral lines in the Milky Way Imaging Scroll Painting (MWISP) survey, we employ a cross-correlation method to measure velocity shifts across $\sim$ 10,000 CO spectra from six reference sources…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-03-23 Lixia Yuan , Ji Yang , Min Fang , Shaobo Zhang , Dengrong Lu , Jixian Sun

We use the ~370 square degrees data from the MWISP CO survey to study the vertical distribution of the molecular clouds (MCs) toward the tangent points in the region of l=[16,52]deg and |b|<5.1deg. The molecular disk consists of two…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-04-14 Yang Su , Ji Yang , Qing-Zeng Yan , Shaobo Zhang , Hongchi Wang , Yan Sun , Zhiwei Chen , Chen Wang , Xin Zhou , Xuepeng Chen , Zhibo Jiang , Min Wang

A multi-transition 3$ $mm molecular line single-pointing and mapping survey was carried out towards 29 massive star-forming cores in order to search for the signature of inward motions. Up to seven different transitions, optically thick…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Yan Sun , Yu Gao

The latest generation of high-angular-resolution unbiased Galactic plane surveys in molecular-gas tracers are enabling the interiors of molecular clouds to be studied across a range of environments. The CHIMPS survey simultaneously mapped a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-11-27 A. J. Rigby , T. J. T. Moore , D. J. Eden , J. S. Urquhart , S. E. Ragan , N. Peretto , R. Plume , M. A. Thompson , M. J. Currie , G. Park

The rotational transitions of carbon monoxide (CO) are the primary means of investigating the density and velocity structure of the molecular interstellar medium. Here we study the lowest four rotational transitions of CO towards…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 James G. Ingalls , T. M. Bania , Adair P. Lane , Matthias Rumitz , Antony A. Stark

We present a comparison of molecular clouds (MCs) from a simulation of supernova-driven interstellar medium (ISM) turbulence with real MCs from the Outer Galaxy Survey. The radiative transfer calculations to compute synthetic CO spectra are…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-08-03 Paolo Padoan , Mika Juvela , Liubin Pan , Troels Haugbølle , Åke Nordlund

We further characterize the structures tentatively identified on thermal and chemical grounds as the sites of dissipation of turbulence in molecular clouds (Papers I and II). Our study is based on two-point statistics of line centroid…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Pierre Hily-Blant , Edith Falgarone , Jerome Pety

We present 1"-resolution ALMA observations of the circumnuclear disk (CND) and the environment around SgrA*. The images unveil the presence of small spatial scale CO (J=3-2) molecular "cloudlets" within the central pc of the Milky Way,…

We attempt to visually classify the morphologies of 18190 molecular clouds, which are identified in the $^{12}$CO(1-0) spectral line data over $\sim$ 450 deg$^{2}$ of the second Galactic quadrant from the Milky Way Imaging Scroll Painting…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-12-08 Lixia Yuan , Ji Yang , Fujun Du , Xunchuan Liu , Shaobo Zhang , Zehao Lin , Jingfei Sun , Qing-Zeng Yan , Yuehui Ma , Yang Su , Yan Sun , Xin Zhou

We compare the observational properties between $^{12}$CO, $^{13}$CO, and C$^{18}$O and summarize the observational parameters based on 7069 clouds sample from the Milky Way Imaging Scroll Painting (MWISP) CO survey in a section of the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-08-22 Chen Wang , Haoran Feng , Ji Yang , Xuepeng Chen , Yang Su , Qing-Zeng Yan , Fujun Du , Yuehui Ma , Jiajun Cai