Dense, Parsec-Scale Clumps near the Great Annihilator

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2009-02-13

arxiv.org/abs/0902.2409v1

Astrophys.J.696:1374-1384,2009

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Galaxy Astrophysics

26 pages, 7 figures, accepted for publication by the Astrophysical Journal, abstract abridged

Scientific paper

10.1088/0004-637X/696/2/1374

We report on Combined Array for Research in Millimeter-Wave Astronomy (CARMA) and James Clerk Maxwell Telescope (JCMT) observations toward the Einstein source 1E 1740.7-2942, a LMXB commonly known as the "Great Annihilator." The Great Annihilator is known to be near a small, bright molecular cloud on the sky in a region largely devoid of emission in 12-CO surveys of the Galactic Center. The region is of interest because it is interior to the dust lanes which may be the shock zones where atomic gas from HI nuclear disk is converted into molecular gas. We find that the region is populated with a number of dense (n ~ 10^5 cm^-3) regions of excited gas with small filling factors, and estimate that up to 1-3 x 10^5 solar masses of gas can be seen in our maps. The detection suggests that a significant amount of mass is transported from the shock zones to the GC star-forming regions in the form of small, dense bundles.

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