Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy
Scientific paper
May 2011
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The Molecular Universe, Posters from the proceedings of the 280th Symposium of the International Astronomical Union held in Tole
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astronomy
Scientific paper
Molecular line observations of different galaxies allow us to study the effects of these different properties/activities on the molecular medium. In fact, some groups have suggested that it is possible to diagnose power sources in dusty galaxies using molecular line ratios. The observation of the molecular gas chemistry of the active galactic nucleus (AGN) toward NGC 1068, one of the nearest galaxies with an AGN, has already been reported. However, further systematic observations of molecular lines are indispensable to study the impact of AGN on the interstellar medium. Therefore, we started a project to conduct a line survey in the 3-mm band of NGC 1068 using the new receiver in the 45-m telescope at Nobeyama Radio Observatory. The beam size of this telescope (18'' at 86 GHz) is smaller than the size of the circumnuclear starburst ring in NGC 1068 (d ˜ 30''), and it is therefore essential to study the impact of the AGN on the surrounding molecules; this will enable us to mitigate the contamination of the molecular lines from the circumnuclear starburst region in NGC 1068. We conduct a spectral line survey in the 3-mm band (85.1--98.4 GHz) toward NGC 1068 and the prototypical starburst galaxy NGC 253. We detected rotational transitions of C2H, cyclic-C3H2 and H13CN in NGC 1068. In addition, the C2H N = 1--0 lines were detected in NGC 253 [10]. We calculated the abundances of these molecules relative to CS for both NGC 1068 and NGC 253, and found that there were no significant differences in the abundances between the two galaxies. This result suggests that the basic carbon-containing molecules are either insusceptible to AGN, or are tracing cold (Trot ˜ 10 K) molecular gas rather than X-ray irradiated hot gas.
Inoue Hajime
Kohno Kotaro
Nakajima Tatsuya
Takano Shiro
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