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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…

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We examine observational characteristics of multi-phase turbulent flows in the diffuse interstellar medium (ISM) using a synthetic radiation field of atomic and molecular lines. We consider the multi-phase ISM which is formed by thermal…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 M. Yamada , H. Koyama , K. Omukai , S. Inutsuka

The dynamics of small-scale structures in free-surface turbulence is crucial to large-scale phenomena in natural and industrial environments. Here we conduct experiments on the quasi-flat free surface of a zero-mean-flow turbulent water…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-03-14 Yinghe Qi , Yaxing Li , Filippo Coletti

To investigate the interstellar medium (ISM) and Galactic cosmic rays (CRs) in the solar neighborhood, we analyzed ${\gamma}$-ray data by Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) for five nearby molecular cloud regions. Our data includes the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-06-23 Tsunefumi Mizuno , Katsuhiro Hayashi , Hinako Ochi , Igor V. Moskalenko , Elena Orlando , Andrew W. Strong

The results of a CO line survey in central cluster galaxies with cooling flows are presented. Cold molecular gas is detected with the IRAM 30m telescope, through CO(1-0) and CO(2-1) emission lines in 6-10 among 32 galaxies. The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 P. Salome , F. Combes

We look into the 2851 $^{12}$CO molecular clouds harboring $^{13}$CO structures to reveal the distribution of the projected angular separations and radial velocity separations between their internal $^{13}$CO structures. The projected…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-02-22 Lixia Yuan , Ji Yang , Fujun Du , Xunchuan Liu , Yang Su , Qing-Zeng Yan , Xuepeng Chen , Yan Sun , Shaobo Zhang , Xin Zhou , Yuehui Ma

We present spatially resolved ALMA images of CO J=3-2 emission from the protoplanetary disk around HD100546. We model the spatially-resolved kinematic structure of the CO emission. Assuming a velocity profile which prescribes a flat or…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2017-12-07 Catherine Walsh , Cail Daley , Stefano Facchini , Attila Juhasz

The intermittent dissipation of interstellar turbulence is an important energy source in the diffuse ISM. Though on average smaller than the heating rates due to cosmic rays and the photoelectric effect on dust grains, the turbulent cascade…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-09-11 Andrew Myers , Christopher McKee , Pak Shing Li

Velocity fields of molecular clouds (MCs) can provide crucial information on the merger and split between clouds, as well as their internal kinematics and maintenance, energy injection and redistribution, even star formation within clouds.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-03-12 Lixia Yuan , Ji Yang , Xuepeng Chen , Yang Su , Shaobo Zhang , Xin Zhou , Zhiwei Chen , Qing-Zeng Yan , Min Fang , Fujun Du , Yan Sun , Hongchi Wang , Ye Xu

We present ALMA observations of the CO(1-0) line and 3-mm continuum emission in eight ultraluminous infrared (IR) quasi-stellar objects (QSOs) at z = 0.06-0.19. All eight IR QSO hosts are clearly resolved in their CO molecular gas emission…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-01-08 Qing-Hua Tan , Yu Gao , Kotaro Kohno , Xiao-Yang Xia , Alain Omont , Cai-Na Hao , Shu-De Mao , Emanuele Daddi , Yong Shi , Ying-He Zhao , Pierre Cox

We present the results of a velocity correlation study of the high latitude cloud MBM16 using a fully sampled $^{12}$CO map, supplemented by new $^{13}$CO data. We find a correlation length of 0.4 pc. This is similar in size to the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 T. N. LaRosa , Steven N. Shore , Loris Magnani

The intermittent small-scale structure of turbulence governs energy dissipation in many astrophysical plasmas and is often believed to have universal properties for sufficiently large systems. In this work, we argue that small-scale…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-03-22 Vladimir Zhdankin , Justin Walker , Stanislav Boldyrev , Geoffroy Lesur

We utilize observations of sub-millimeter rotational transitions of CO from a Herschel Cycle 2 open time program ("COPS", PI: J. Green) to identify previously predicted turbulent dissipation by magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) shocks in molecular…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-03-17 Rebecca L. Larson , Neal J. Evans , Joel D. Green , Yao-Lun Yang

We report the results of a 100 square degree survey of the Taurus Molecular Cloud region in the J = 1-0 transition of 12CO and 13CO. The image of the cloud in each velocity channel includes ~ 3 million Nyquist sampled pixels on a 20" grid.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-12-08 Paul F. Goldsmith , Mark Heyer , Gopal Narayanan , Ronald Snell , Di Li , Chris Brunt

Submillimeter Array 1.3mm line and continuum observations toward the young massive star-forming region IRAS18182-1433 are presented. The data are complemented with short-spacing CO(2-1) observations and SiO(1-0) data from the VLA. Multiple…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 H. Beuther , Q. Zhang , T. K. Sridharan , C. -F. Lee , L. A. Zapata

Using the IRAM 30m telescope two molecular structures have been detected which cover very small areas, FWHM<1'. The clouds have velocities of v_lsr~5kms and linewidth of dv~0.8km/s; thus they belong most likely to the Milky Way. Applying…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Andreas Heithausen

{We study in some details the statistical properties of the turbulent 2-phase interstellar atomic gas.{We present high resolution bidimensional numerical simulations of the interstellar atomic hydrogen which describe it over 3 to 4 orders…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 P. Hennebelle , E. Audit

We use ALMA observations of four sub-millimetre galaxies (SMGs) at $z\sim2-3$ to investigate the spatially resolved properties of the inter-stellar medium (ISM) at scales of 1--5 kpc (0.1--0.6$''$). The velocity fields of our sources,…

Using wide-field $^{13}$CO ($J=1-0$) data taken with the Nobeyama 45-m telescope, we investigate cloud structures of the infrared dark cloud complex in M17 with SCIMES. In total, we identified 118 clouds that contain 11 large clouds with…