- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/872/121
- Title:
- Molecular cloud cores in the GC 50km/s cloud
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/872/121
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The Galactic center 50km/s 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 velocity of ~30km/s that is estimated from the velocity dispersion. We observed the whole of the 50MC with a high angular resolution (~2.0"x1.4") in Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array cycle 1 in the H^13^CO^+^ J=1-0 and C^34^S J=2-1 emission lines. We identified 241 and 129 bound cores with a virial parameter of less than 2, which are thought to be gravitationally bound, in the H^13^CO^+^ and C^34^S maps using the clumpfind algorithm, respectively. In the CCC region, the bound H^13^CO^+^ and C^34^S cores are 119 and 82, whose masses are 68% and 76% of those in the whole 50MC, respectively. The distribution of the core number and column densities in the CCC are biased to larger densities than those in the non-CCC region. The distributions indicate that the CCC compresses the molecular gas and increases the number of the dense bound cores. Additionally, the massive bound cores with masses of >3000M_{sun}_ exist only in the CCC region, although the slope of the core mass function (CMF) in the CCC region is not different from that in the non-CCC region. We conclude that the compression by the CCC efficiently formed massive bound cores even if the slope of the CMF is not changed so much by the CCC.
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- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/622/A26
- Title:
- Molecular ion abundances in diffuse ISM
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/622/A26
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The transition between atomic and molecular hydrogen is associated with important changes in the structure of interstellar clouds, and marks the beginning of interstellar chemistry. Most molecular ions are rapidly formed (in ion-molecule reactions) and destroyed (by dissociative recombination) in the diffuse ISM. Because of the relatively simple networks controlling their abundances, molecular ions are usually good probes of the underlying physical conditions including for instance the fraction of gas in molecular form or the fractional ionization. In this paper we focus on three possible probes of the molecular hydrogen column density, HCO^+^, HOC^+^, and CF^+^. We presented high sensitivity ALMA absorption data toward a sample of compact HII regions and bright QSOs with prominent foreground absorption, in the ground state transitions of the molecular ions HCO^+^, HOC^+^, and CF^+^ and the neutral species HCN and HNC, and from the excited state transitions of C_3_H^+^(4-3) and ^13^CS(2-1). These data are compared with Herschel absorption spectra of the ground state transition of HF and p-H_2_O. We show that the HCO^+^, HOC^+^, and CF^+^ column densities are well correlated with each other. HCO^+^ and HOC^+^ are tightly correlated with p-H_2_O, while they exhibit a different correlation pattern with HF depending on whether the absorbing matter is located in the Galactic disk or in the central molecular zone. We report new detections of C_3_H^+^ confirming that this ion is ubiquitous in the diffuse matter, with an abundance relative to H_2_ of ~7x10^-11^. We confirm that the CF^+^ abundance is lower than predicted by simple chemical models and propose that the rate of the main formation reaction is lower by a factor of about 3 than usually assumed. In the absence of CH or HF data, we recommend to use the ground state transitions of HCO^+^, CCH, and HOC^+^ to trace diffuse molecular hydrogen, with mean abundances relative to H_2_ of 3x10^-9^, 4x10^-8^ and 4x10^-11^ respectively, leading to sensitivity N(H_2_)/{int}{tau}dv of 4x10^20^, 1.5x10^21^, and 6x10^22^cm^-2^/km/s, respectively.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/851/76
- Title:
- Molecular transitions toward NGC5128 with ALMA
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/851/76
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Centaurus A, with its gas-rich elliptical host galaxy, NGC 5128, is the nearest radio galaxy at a distance of 3.8Mpc. Its proximity allows us to study the interaction among an active galactic nucleus, radio jets, and molecular gas in great detail. We present ALMA observations of low-J transitions of three CO isotopologues, HCN, HCO+, HNC, CN, and CCH toward the inner projected 500pc of NGC 5128. Our observations resolve physical sizes down to 40pc. By observing multiple chemical probes, we determine the physical and chemical conditions of the nuclear interstellar medium of NGC 5128. This region contains molecular arms associated with the dust lanes and a circumnuclear disk (CND) interior to the molecular arms. The CND is approximately 400pc by 200pc and appears to be chemically distinct from the molecular arms. It is dominated by dense gas tracers while the molecular arms are dominated by ^12^CO and its rare isotopologues. The CND has a higher temperature, elevated CN/HCN and HCN/HNC intensity ratios, and much weaker ^13^CO and C^18^O emission than the molecular arms. This suggests an influence from the AGN on the CND molecular gas. There is also absorption against the AGN with a low velocity complex near the systemic velocity and a high velocity complex shifted by about 60km/s. We find similar chemical properties between the CND in emission and both the low and high velocity absorption complexes, implying that both likely originate from the CND. If the HV complex does originate in the CND, then that gas would correspond to gas falling toward the supermassive black hole.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/755/47
- Title:
- Murchison Widefield Array 110-200MHz observations
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/755/47
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) is a new low-frequency, wide field-of-view radio interferometer under development at the Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory in Western Australia. We have used a 32 element MWA prototype interferometer (MWA-32T) to observe two 50{deg} diameter fields in the southern sky, covering a total of ~2700deg^2^, in order to evaluate the performance of the MWA-32T, to develop techniques for epoch of reionization experiments, and to make measurements of astronomical foregrounds. We developed a calibration and imaging pipeline for the MWA-32T, and used it to produce ~15' angular resolution maps of the two fields in the 110-200MHz band. We perform a blind source extraction using these confusion-limited images, and detect 655 sources at high significance with an additional 871 lower significance source candidates. We compare these sources with existing low-frequency radio surveys in order to assess the MWA-32T system performance, wide-field analysis algorithms, and catalog quality. Our source catalog is found to agree well with existing low-frequency surveys in these regions of the sky and with statistical distributions of point sources derived from Northern Hemisphere surveys; it represents one of the deepest surveys to date of this sky field in the 110-200MHz band.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/771/105
- Title:
- MWA Stokes I 189MHz sources
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/771/105
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present a Stokes I, Q and U survey at 189MHz with the Murchison Widefield Array 32 element prototype covering 2400deg^2^. The survey has a 15.6' angular resolution and achieves a noise level of 15mJy/beam. We demonstrate a novel interferometric data analysis that involves calibration of drift scan data, integration through the co-addition of warped snapshot images, and deconvolution of the point-spread function through forward modeling. We present a point source catalog down to a flux limit of 4Jy. We detect polarization from only one of the sources, PMN J0351-2744, at a level of 1.8%+/-0.4%, whereas the remaining sources have a polarization fraction below 2%. Compared to a reported average value of 7% at 1.4GHz, the polarization fraction of compact sources significantly decreases at low frequencies. We find a wealth of diffuse polarized emission across a large area of the survey with a maximum peak of ~13K, primarily with positive rotation measure values smaller than +10rad/m2. The small values observed indicate that the emission is likely to have a local origin (closer than a few hundred parsecs). There is a large sky area at {alpha}>=2^h^30^m^ where the diffuse polarized emission rms is fainter than 1K. Within this area of low Galactic polarization we characterize the foreground properties in a cold sky patch at ({alpha},{delta})=(4^h^,-27.6{deg}) in terms of three-dimensional power spectra.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/629/A136
- Title:
- MWC 922 ALMA maps and datacubes
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/629/A136
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present interferometric observations with the Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA) of the free-free continuum and recombination line emission at 1 and 3mm of the Red Square Nebula surrounding the B[e]-type star MWC922. The distance to the source, which is unknown, is usually taken to be d=1.7-3kpc. The unprecedented angular resolution (up to ~0.02") and exquisite sensitivity of these data reveal for the first time the structure and kinematics of the nascent compact ionized region at its center. We imaged the line emission of H30{alpha} and H39{alpha}, previously detected with single-dish observations, and of H51{epsilon}, H55{gamma}, and H63{delta}, detected for the first time in this work. The line emission is seen over a full velocity range of ~180km/s arising in a region of diameter <0.14" (less than a few hundred au) in the maser line H30{alpha}, which is the most intense transition reported here. We resolve the spatio-kinematic structure of a nearly edge-on disk rotating around a central mass of ~10M_{sun}_ (d=1.7kpc) or ~18M_{sun}_ (d=3kpc), assuming Keplerian rotation. Our data also reveal a fast (~100km/s) bipolar ejection (possibly a jet) orthogonal to the disk. In addition, a slow (<15km/s) wind may be emanating from the disk. Both, the slow and the fast winds are found to be rotating in a similar manner to the ionized layers of the disk. This represents the first empirical proof of rotation in a bipolar wind expanding at high velocity (~100km/s).
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/other/AstBu/68.53
- Title:
- Nearby multiple Speckle interferometry. V.
- Short Name:
- J/other/AstBu/68
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The results of speckle interferometric observations of 194 binary stars performed at the BTA 6m telescope in 2002-2006 are presented in this paper. For speckle observations we used filters with central wavelengths from 545 to 800nm and speckle camera with the fast CCD coupled with a tree-chamber intensifier. The most part of the observed systems (80 stars) - pairs, which binarity was discovered by Hipparcos satellite fo the first time. And the other stars are visual binaries and interferometric binary systems which orbital periods estimates from several to ten of the year. The pairs with slow orbital motion are included to the observation list, also. They are used for position parameters calibrations.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/144/7
- Title:
- Near-IR imaging of Hipparcos astrometric binaries
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/144/7
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- A subset of 51 Hipparcos astrometric binaries among FG dwarfs within 67pc has been surveyed with the Near-Infrared Coronagraphic Imager adaptive optics system at Gemini-S, directly resolving for the first time 17 subarcsecond companions and 7 wider ones. Using these data together with published speckle interferometry of 57 stars, we compare the statistics of resolved astrometric companions with those of a simulated binary population. The fraction of resolved companions is slightly lower than expected from binary statistics. About 10% of astrometric companions could be "dark" (white dwarfs and close pairs of late M-dwarfs). To our surprise, several binaries are found with companions too wide to explain the acceleration. Re-analysis of selected intermediate astrometric data shows that some acceleration solutions in the original Hipparcos catalog are spurious.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/PASP/110/1012
- Title:
- New double stars from HST
- Short Name:
- J/PASP/110/1012
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Data from the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) Fine Guidance Sensor (FGS) interferometers, covering 22 months of guide-star acquisition operations, have been analyzed for evidence of stellar duplicity. The data comprise a survey of observed guide stars, all of which are taken from the HST Guide Star Catalog, ranging in magnitude from 9 to 14. The survey results cover a parameter space for the newly found doubles, for the fainter stars, which are of smaller limiting angular separations than in any previous surveys. The normal HST engineering telemetry data from 13,979 acquisitions on 4882 stars have been processed. The FGS guidance data can reveal duplicity with separations ranging from approximately 30mas, for the brighter stars, with small magnitude differences, up to the neighborhood of 500mas, and in some cases to 1000mas. The fraction of guide stars indicating duplicity is a function of the statistical criteria used but is over 5% at a very high level of confidence. It is possible that if some of the brighter and closer pairs could be identified as nearby, then their orbital motions would be rapid enough to allow a mass and distance determination on a timescale of a decade if followed with ground-based interferometric and spectroscopic instruments. A brief catalog of doubles is given, nearly all of which are of certain duplicity. Information for accessing on-line catalogs of large numbers of stars with lesser, but nevertheless strong, probabilities of duplicity and also for the solutions for duplicity from all acquisitions is provided.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/634/A1
- Title:
- NGC 1068 GRAVITY reconstructed image
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/634/A1
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present near-infrared interferometric data on the Seyfert 2 galaxy NGC 1068, obtained with the GRAVITY instrument on the European Southern Observatory Very Large Telescope Interferometer. The extensive baseline coverage from 5 to 60M{lambda} allowed us to reconstruct a continuum image of the nucleus with an unrivaled 0.2pc resolution in the K-band.We find a thin ring-like structure of emission with a radius r=0.24+/-0.03pc, inclination i=70+/-5{deg}, position angle PA=-50+/-4{deg}, and h/r<0.14, which we associate with the dust sublimation region. The observed morphology is inconsistent with the expected signatures of a geometrically and optically thick torus. Instead, the infrared emission shows a striking resemblance to the 22GHz maser disc, which suggests they share a common region of origin. The near-infrared spectral energy distribution indicates a bolometric luminosity of (0.4-4.7)x10^45^erg/s, behind a large A_K_~=5.5 (A_V_~=90) screen of extinction that also appears to contribute significantly to obscuring the broad line region.
