Infalling gas onto the Galactic center circumnuclear ring

Details Infalling gas onto the Galactic center circumnuclear ring Infalling gas onto the Galactic center circumnuclear ring

Oct 2008

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2008jphcs.131a2033s&link_type=abstract

"Journal of Physics: Conference Series, Volume 131, Proceedings of "The Universe Under the Microscope - Astrophysics at High Ang

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The central region of our Galaxy (Sgr A*) is the nearest galactic center harboring a massive black hole. The environment around Sgr A* is a topic of interest to diverse fields. We are interested in gas feeding from giant molecular clouds (GMC) within 10 pc of the Galactic center to the Circumnuclear Ring/Disk (CND), which is presumable 'lay-down bay' of infalling gas toward Sgr A*. In order to reveal the mechanism, we observed the CND and its surroundings in SiO and H13 CO+ lines using Nobeyama Millimeter Array (NMA). We depict the CND clearly in both lines and some molecular streamers to the CND in only SiO line including one new detection. The line intensity ratios at overlapping points of streamers with the CND are higher (I(SiO)/I(H13CO+) > 6) than the average of CND (2 4). This is a strong evidence indicating these streamers are connecting to the CND. Some components at the outer region of the CND are also detected in both lines. We also estimate the rotation velocity of the CND as 110±10 km s-1 and of just a bit outside from the CND as 93±14 km s-1. The estimation of the rotation velocity in the distance range of 5-10 pc from the Sgr A* has a great meaning since there have been few report about the kinematic parameters at just outside of the CND.

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