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The extreme outer Galaxy (EOG) has a very different environment from that in the solar neighborhood, with low metallicity (less than -0.5 dex), much lower gas density, and small or no perturbation from spiral arms. The EOG is an excellent…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-01-03 Naoto Kobayashi , Chikako Yasui , Alan T. Tokunaga , Masao Saito

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

We report ALMA continuum and molecular line observations at 0.1 pc resolution toward the super star cluster (SSC) candidate H72.97-69.39 in the N79 region of the LMC. The continuum emission has a sharp peak around the SSC candidate but is…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-12-23 Suman Kumar Mondal , Takashi Shimonishi , Soumen Mondal , Prasanta Gorai , Kei E. I. Tanaka , Kenji Furuya , Ankan Das

We want to investigate the influence of the powerful outflow driven by the hot core Sgr B2(N1) on the gas molecular inventory of the surrounding medium. We used the data taken as part of the 3 mm imaging spectral-line survey ReMoCA…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-11-26 Laura A. Busch , Arnaud Belloche , Robin T. Garrod , Holger S. P. Müller , Karl M. Menten

We present Submillimeter Array observations, in the 1.3 mm continuum and the CH_3CN(12-11) line of 17 hot molecular cores associated with young high-mass stars. The angular resolution of the observations ranges from 1".0 to 4".0. The…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-18 Vicente Hernández-Hernández , Luis Zapata , Stan Kurtz , Guido Garay

The chemical complexity in low-metallicity hot cores has been confirmed by observations. We investigate the effect of varying physical parameters, such as temperature, density and the cosmic ray ionisation rate (CRIR), on the molecular…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-07-10 Yara Sobhy , Hideko Nomura , Tetsuo Yamamoto , Osama Shalabeia

We present the results of two Mopra 3-mm spectral line surveys of the Lines of Sight (LOS) toward the Galactic Center (GC) molecular complexes Sgr B2 (LOS+0.693) and Sgr A (LOS-0.11). The spectra covered the frequency ranges of ~77-93 GHz…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-23 J. Armijos-Abendaño , J. Martín-Pintado , M. A. Requena-Torres , S. Martín , A. Rodríguez-Franco

Orion KL is one of the prime templates of astrochemical and prebiotic chemical studies. We wish to explore more organic molecules with increasing complexity in this region. In particular, we have searched for one of the most complex organic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-02-13 Yaping Peng , V. M. Rivilla , Li Zhang , J. X. Ge , Bing Zhou

We study the chemical complexity towards the central parts of the starburst galaxy M82, and investigate the role of certain molecules as tracers of the physical processes in the galaxy circumnuclear region. We carried out a spectral line…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 Rebeca Aladro , Sergio Martín , Jesús Martín-Pintado , Rainer Mauersberger , Christian Henkel , Breezy Ocaña , Arancha Amo-Baladrón

We aimed to study the chemistry of the circumnuclear molecular gas of NGC1068, and to compare it with those of the starburst galaxies M82 and NGC253. Using the IRAM-30m telescope, we observed the inner 2 kpc of NGC1068 between 86.2 GHz and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Rebeca Aladro , Serena Viti , Denise Riquelme , Sergio Martin , Rainer Mauersberger , Jesus Martin-Pintado , Estelle Bayet

By using the multifiber spectrograph FLAMES mounted at the ESO-VLT, we have obtained high-resolution spectra for 18 giant stars, belonging to 3 old globular clusters of the Large Magellanic Cloud (namely NGC 1786, 2210 and 2257). While…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 A. Mucciarelli , L. Origlia , F. R. Ferraro , E. Pancino

We present maps and spectra of the HCN(1-0) and HCO$^+$(1-0) lines in the extreme outer Galaxy, at galactocentric radii between 14 and 22 kpc, with the 13.7 meter Delingha telescope. The 9 molecular clouds were selected from a CO/$^{13}$CO…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-08-09 Jonathan Braine , Yan Sun , Yoshito Shimajiri , Floris F. S. van der Tak , Min Fang , Philippe André , Hao Chen , Yu Gao

We present the first interferometric detection of extragalactic NH_3(6,6) emission in the nearby galaxy IC 342 made using the VLA. The data have a resolution of 7.8''x 5.0'' and trace hot (T ~ 412 K) and dense (> 10^{4} cm^{-3}) molecular…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Maria Montero-Castano , Robeson M. Herrnstein , Paul T. P. Ho

In order to study a molecular-cloud-scale chemical composition, we have conducted a mapping spectral line survey toward the Galactic molecular cloud W3(OH), which is one of the most active star forming regions in the Perseus arm, with the…

We observe 1.3~mm spectral lines at 2000~AU resolution toward four massive molecular clouds in the Central Molecular Zone of the Galaxy to investigate their star formation activities. We focus on several potential shock tracers that are…

Investigating the physical and chemical structures of massive star-forming regions is critical for understanding the formation and the early evolution of massive stars. We performed a detailed line survey toward six dense cores named as…

We analyse the chemical properties of three z~8 galaxies behind the galaxy cluster SMACS J0723.3-7327, observed as part of the Early Release Observations programme of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). Exploiting [O III]4363 auroral…

We present the result of an unbiased CO survey in Galactic range of 34.75$^{\circ}\leq$l$\leq$ 45.25$^{\circ}$ and -5.25$^{\circ}\leq$b$\leq$ 5.25$^{\circ}$, and velocity range beyond the Outer arm. A total of 168 molecular clouds (MCs) are…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-06-21 Yan Sun , Yang Su , Shao-Bo Zhang , Ye Xu , Xue-Peng Chen , Ji Yang , Zhi-Bo Jiang , Min Fang

It is important to understand the origin of molecular line intensities and chemical composition in the molecular-cloud scale in the Galactic sources because it serves as a benchmark to compare with the chemical compositions of extragalactic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-02-13 Nanase Harada , Yuri Nishimura , Yoshimasa Watanabe , Satoshi Yamamoto , Yuri Aikawa , Nami Sakai , Takashi Shimonishi

We study the astrochemical diagnostics of the isolated massive protostar G28.20-0.05. We analyze data from ALMA 1.3~mm observations with resolution of 0.2 arcsec ($\sim$1,000 au). We detect emission from a wealth of species, including…

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