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Aims. We have investigated neutral gas in the central cavity of the circumnuclear disk (CND) at the Galactic Center, where the ionized minispiral lies, to describe the H2 distribution and properties in this ionized environment. Methods.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-10-26 Anna Ciurlo , Thibaut Paumard , Daniel Rouan , Yann Clénet

We report the discovery of molecular gas streams orbiting around an invisible massive object in the central region of our Galaxy, based on the high-resolution molecular line observations with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-01-23 Shunya Takekawa , Tomoharu Oka , Yuhei Iwata , Shiho Tsujimoto , Mariko Nomura

The soft X-ray background shows a general enhancement toward the inner region of the Galaxy. But whether this enhancement is a local feature (e.g., a superbubble within a distance of <= 200 pc) and/or a phenomenon related to energetic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-07-26 Yangsen Yao , Q. Daniel Wang

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…

We use NH3 inversion transitions to trace the dense gas in the NGC 1333 region of the Perseus molecular cloud. NH3(1,1) and NH3(2,2) maps covering an area of 102 square arcminutes at an angular resolution of ~3.7" are produced by combining…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-05-15 Arnab Dhabal , Lee G. Mundy , Che-yu Chen , Peter Teuben , Shaye Storm

We present Very Large Array observations of ammonia (NH3) (1,1), (2,2), and CCS (2_1-1_0) emission toward the Infrared Dark Cloud (IRDC) G19.30+0.07 at ~22GHz. The NH3 emission closely follows the 8 micron extinction. The NH3 (1,1) and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-27 K. E. Devine , C. J. Chandler , C. Brogan , E. Churchwell , R. Indebetouw , Y. Shirley , K. J. Borg

The origin of the molecular clouds orbiting SgrA* is one of the most debated questions about our Galactic Centre. Here, we present the hydrodynamic simulation of a molecular cloud infalling towards SgrA*, performed with the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-08-14 Alessandro Ballone , Michela Mapelli , Alessandro Alberto Trani

We report ALMA observations of CO(3-2) emission in the Seyfert 2 double-barred galaxy NGC1433, at the unprecedented spatial resolution of 0.5"=24 pc. Our aim is to probe AGN feeding and feedback phenomena through the morphology and dynamics…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 F. Combes , S. Garcia-Burillo , V. Casasola , L. K. Hunt , M. Krips , A. J. Baker , F. Boone , A. Eckart , I. Marquez , R. Neri , E. Schinnerer , L. J. Tacconi

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

[abridged] We present interferometric maps of ammonia (NH3) of the nearby starburst galaxy NGC 253 [star formation rate: ~2.8 Mo yr^(-1)]. The observations have been taken with the Australia Telescope Compact Array and include the para-NH3…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Juergen Ott , Axel Weiss , Christian Henkel , Fabian Walter

We present a detailed study of a molecular outflow feature in the nearby starburst galaxy NGC 253 using ALMA. We find that this feature is clearly associated with the edge of NGC 253's prominent ionized outflow, has a projected length of…

We present a synthesis of a number of recent observations in the near-IR H_2 and [Fe II] lines, OH (1720 MHz) maser line and various radio continuum measurements using the NICMOS of the HST, UNSWIRF on the AAT and the VLA. These…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 F. Yusef-Zadeh , S. Stolovy , M. Burton , M. Wardle , F. Melia , J. Lazio , N. Kassim

We have used the Odin submillimetre-wave satellite telescope to observe the ground state transitions of ortho-ammonia and ortho-water, including their 15N, 18O, and 17O isotopologues, towards Sgr B2. The extensive simultaneous velocity…

We address the question of the dynamics in the inner 50 pc of the Galactic Centre. In a first step we investigate the cloud-cloud collision rate in the Circumnuclear Disk (CND) with the help of a three dimensional N-body code using gas…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 B. Vollmer , W. J. Duschl

Using deep archival observations from the Chandra X-ray Observatory, we present an analysis of linear X-ray-emitting features located within the southern portion of the Galactic center chimney, and oriented orthogonal to the Galactic plane,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-05-14 Scott C. Mackey , Mark R. Morris , Gabriele Ponti , Konstantina Anastasopoulou , Samaresh Mondal

The massive young stellar object S255IR NIRS3 embedded in the star forming core SMA1 has been recently observed with a luminosity burst, which is conjectured as a disc-mediated variable accretion event. In this context, it is imperative to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-12-09 Sheng-Yuan Liu , Yu-Nung Su , Igor Zinchenko , Kuo-Song Wang , Dominique M. -A. Meyer , Yuan Wang , I-Ta Hsieh

Despite past panchromatic observations of the innermost part of the Milky Way, the overall structure of the Galactic Centre (GC) remains enigmatic in terms of geometry. In this paper, we aim to show how polarimetry can probe the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-01-09 F. Marin , V. Karas , D. Kunneriath , F. Muleri

With a help of hydrodynamical models, we explore fundamental modes of gas flow in central parts of a galaxy potential with non-axisymmetric perturbations of various strengths. Our grid-based algorithm allows us to get a detailed picture of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Witold Maciejewski

The Milky Way Galactic Center hosts a $\sim4\times10^{6}\,M_\odot$ supermassive black hole (SMBH), Sgr A*. The dominant structures in its immediate vicinity are the nuclear star cluster (NSC), whose enclosed mass at 2 pc is approximately…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-12-16 Asad Ukani , Lena Murchikova , Mark D. Gorski