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Gas clouds are present in the Galactic centre, where they orbit around the supermassive black hole. Collisions between these clumps reduce their angular momentum, and as a result some of the clumps are set on a plunging trajectory.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-07-09 Bozena Czerny , Devaky Kunneriath , Vladimir Karas , Tapas K. Das

The 1-50 GHz GBT PRIMOS data contains ~50 molecular absorption lines observed in diffuse and translucent clouds located in the Galactic Center, Bar, and spiral arms in the line-of-sight to Sgr B2(N). We measure the column densities and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-02-14 Joanna Corby , Brett McGuire , Eric Herbst , Anthony Remijan

The impact of viscosity in the Intracluster Medium (ICM) is still an open question in astrophysics. To address this problem, we have run a set of cosmological simulations of three galaxy clusters with a mass larger than $M_{\mathrm{Vir}} >…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-11-14 Tirso Marin-Gilabert , Ulrich P. Steinwandel , Milena Valentini , David Vallés-Pérez , Klaus Dolag

The Galactic Center 50 km s$^{-1}$ Molecular Cloud (50MC) is the most remarkable molecular cloud in the Sagittarius A region. This cloud is a candidate for the massive star formation induced by cloud-cloud collision (CCC) with a collision…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-03-07 Kenta Uehara , Masato Tsuboi , Yoshimi Kitamura , Ryosuke Miyawaki

We present the statistical properties of molecular clumps in the Galactic center 50 km s$^{-1}$ molecular cloud (GCM-0.02-0.07) based on observations of the CS $J=1-0$ emission line with the Nobeyama Millimeter Array. In the cloud, 37…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-04 Masato Tsuboi , Atsushi Miyazaki

Black holes (BHs) surrounded by accretion disks are present in the Universe at different scales of masses, from microquasars up to the active galactic nuclei (AGNs). The current picture remains ad hoc due to the complexity of the magnetic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-07-19 Mikołaj Grzędzielski , Agnieszka Janiuk , Bożena Czerny , Qingwen Wu

A set of diffuse interstellar clouds in the inner Galaxy within a few hundred pc of the Galactic plane has been observed at an angular resolution of ~1 arcmin combining data from the NRAO Green Bank Telescope and the Very Large Array. At…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-15 Yurii Pidopryhora , Felix J. Lockman , John M. Dickey , Michael P. Rupen

We analyze the collective gravitational interaction among gas clouds in the inner regions of galactic disks and find that it leads to accretion at a rate $\sim M_{mc}\Omega (M_{mc}/M_t)^2$; where $M_{mc}$ is the molecular mass of the disk,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Pawan Kumar

The growing process of both a young protostar and a circumstellar disk is investigated. Viscous evolution of a disk around a single star is considered with a model where a disk increases its mass by dynamically accreting envelope and…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Takuya Ohtani , Toru Tsuribe

We studied a steadily accreting, geometrically thick disk model that selfconsistently takes into account selfgravitation of the polytropic gas, its interaction with the radiation and the mass accretion rate. The accreting mass is injected…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-04-19 Patryk Mach , Edward Malec

We investigate the structure of accretion disks around massive protostar applying steady state models of thin disks. The thin disk equations are solved with proper opacities for dust and gas taking into account the huge temperature…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2009-08-17 B. Vaidya , C. Fendt , H. Beuther

Utilizing the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), we present CS line maps in five rotational lines ($J_{\rm u}=7, 5, 4, 3, 2$) toward the circumnuclear disk (CND) and streamers of the Galactic Center. Our primary goal is to…

We present the results of a study of simulated Giant Molecular Clouds (GMCs) formed in a Milky Way-type galactic disk with a flat rotation curve. This simulation, which does not include star formation or feedback, produces clouds with…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-16 Samantha M. Benincasa , Elizabeth J. Tasker , Ralph E. Pudritz , James Wadsley

An accretion disk in an Active Galactic Nucleus (AGN) harbors and shields dust from external illumination: at the mid-plane of the disk around a $M_{{\rm BH}}=10^{7}M_{\odot}$ black hole, dust can exist at $0.1$pc from the black hole,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-04-07 Anton Dorodnitsyn , Tim Kallman

We use a high-temperature chemical network to derive the molecular abundances in axisymmetric accretion disk models around active galactic nuclei (AGNs) within 100 pc using simple radial and vertical density and temperature distributions…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-12 Nanase Harada , Todd A. Thompson , Eric Herbst

We compute the properties of a geometrically thin, steady accretion disk surrounding a central rotating, magnetized star. The magnetosphere is assumed to entrain the disk over a wide range of radii. The model is simplified in that we adopt…

Astrophysics · Physics 2012-08-13 W. Kluzniak , S. Rappaport

We perform numerical simulations of clouds in the Galactic Centre (GC) engulfing the nuclear super-massive black hole and show that this mechanism leads to the formation of gaseous accretion discs with properties that are similar to the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2011-05-03 Christian Alig , Andreas Burkert , Peter H. Johansson , Marc Schartmann

Disk galaxies are in hydrostatic equilibrium along their vertical axis. The pressure allowing for this configuration consists of thermal, turbulent, magnetic and cosmic ray components. For the Milky Way(MW) the thermal pressure contributes…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Yuval Birnboim

We examine the vertical structure and equilibrium of the molecular gas layer in the galactic disk, measuring its scale height and velocity dispersion as a function of Galactic radius by modeling the CO emission at the tangent points. The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-22 Sangeeta Malhotra

We consider the effects of advection and radial gradients of pressure and radial drift velocity on the structure of optically thick accretion disks. We concentrate our efforts on highly viscous disks, $\alpha=1.0$, with large accretion…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 I. V. Artemova , G. S. Bisnovatyi-Kogan , G. Bjoernsson , I. D. Novikov