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- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/620/A62
- Title:
- Serpens filament emission lines datacubes
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/620/A62
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The Serpens filament, as one of the nearest infrared dark clouds, is regarded as a pristine filament at a very early evolutionary stage of star formation. In order to study its molecular content and dynamical state, we mapped this filament in seven species including C^18^O, HCO^+^, HNC, HCN, N_2_H^+^, CS, and CH_3_OH. Among them, HCO^+^, HNC, HCN, and CS show self-absorption, while C^18^O is most sensitive to the filamentary structure. A kinematic analysis demonstrates that this filament forms a velocity-coherent (trans-)sonic structure, a large part of which is one of the most quiescent regions in the Serpens cloud. Widespread C^18^O depletion is found throughout the Serpens filament. Based on the Herschel dust-derived H_2_ column density map, the line mass of the filament is 36-41~M_{sun}_/pc, and its full width at half maximum width is 0.17+/-0.01pc, while its length is ~1.6pc. The inner radial column density profile of this filament can be well fitted with a Plummer profile with an exponent of 2.2+/-0.1, a scale radius of 0.018+/-0.003pc and a central density of (4.0+/-0.8)x10^4^cm^-3^. The Serpens filament appears to be slightly supercritical. The widespread blue-skewed HNC and CS line profiles and HCN hyperfine line anomalies across this filament indicate radial infall in parts of the Serpens filament. C^18^O velocity gradients also indicate accretion flows along the filament. The velocity and density structures suggest that such accretion flows are likely due to a longitudinal collapse parallel to the filament's long axis. Both the radial infall rate and the longitudinal accretion rate along the Serpens filament are lower than all previously reported values in other filaments. This indicates that the Serpens filament lies at an early evolutionary stage when collapse has just begun, or that thermal and non-thermal support are effective in providing support against gravity.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+AS/116/157
- Title:
- SEST obs. of extragalactic radiosources
- Short Name:
- J/A+AS/116/157
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Flux densities of 155 extragalactic radio sources observed with the SEST telescope at 3mm and 1.3mm are presented. The observations were performed from October 1987 to June 1994. In addition to the flux density tables we have plotted the flux density curves for some of the most frequently observed sources.
1534. Seven-year WMAP catalog
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJS/192/15
- Title:
- Seven-year WMAP catalog
- Short Name:
- J/ApJS/192/15
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present updated estimates of Galactic foreground emission using seven years of WMAP data. Using the power spectrum of differences between multi-frequency template-cleaned maps, we find no evidence for foreground contamination outside of the updated (KQ85y7) foreground mask. We place a 15uK upper bound on rms foreground contamination in the cleaned maps used for cosmological analysis. Further, the cleaning process requires only three power-law foregrounds outside of the mask. We find no evidence for polarized foregrounds beyond those from soft (steep-spectrum) synchrotron and thermal dust emission; in particular we find no indication in the polarization data of an extra "haze" of hard synchrotron emission from energetic electrons near the Galactic center. We provide an updated map of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) using the internal linear combination method, updated foreground masks, and updates to point source catalogs using two different techniques. With additional years of data, we now detect 471 point sources using a five-band technique and 417 sources using a three-band CMB-free technique. In total there are 62 newly detected point sources, a 12% increase over the five-year release.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/643/A127
- Title:
- 5 Seyferts reduced CO(2-1) cubes
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/643/A127
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Active galactic nucleus (AGN) driven outflows are believed to play an important role in regulating the growth of galaxies, mostly via negative feedback. However, their effects on their hosts are far from clear, especially for low- and moderate-luminosity Seyferts. To investigate this issue, we obtained cold molecular gas observations, traced by the CO(2-1) transition, using the NOEMA interferometer of five nearby (distances between 19 and 58Mpc) Seyfert galaxies. The resolution of ~0.3-0.8 (~30-100pc) and field of view of NOEMA allowed us to study the CO(2-1) morphology and kinematics in the nuclear regions (~100pc) and up to radial distances of ~900pc. We detected CO(2-1) emission in all five galaxies with disky or circumnuclear ring-like morphologies. We derived cold molecular gas masses on nuclear (~100pc) and circumnuclear (~650pc) scales in the range from 10^6^ to 10^7^M_{sun}_ and from 10^7^ to 10^8^M_{sun}_, respectively. In all of our galaxies, the bulk of this gas is rotating in the plane of the galaxy. However, noncircular motions are also present. In NGC 4253, NGC 4388, and NGC 7465, we can ascribe the streaming motions to the presence of a large-scale bar. In Mrk 1066 and NGC 4388, the noncircular motions in the nuclear regions are explained as outflowing material due to the interaction of the AGN wind with molecular gas in the galaxy disk. We conclude that for an unambiguous and precise interpretation of the kinematics of the cold molecular gas, we need detailed knowledge of the host galaxy (i.e., presence of bars, interactions, etc.), and also of the ionized gas kinematics and ionization cone geometry.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/621/A119
- Title:
- SgrA* and NRAS530 86GHz images
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/621/A119
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The compact radio source Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*) in the Galactic centre is the primary supermassive black hole candidate. General relativistic magnetohydrodynamical (GRMHD) simulations of the accretion flow around Sgr A* predict the presence of sub-structure at observing wavelengths of ~3mm and below (frequencies of 86GHz and above). For very long baseline interferometry (VLBI) observations of Sgr A* at this frequency the blurring effect of interstellar scattering becomes sub-dominant, and arrays such as the high sensitivity array (HSA) and the global mm-VLBI array (GMVA) are now capable of resolving potential sub-structure in the source. Such investigations help to improve our understanding of the emission geometry of the mm-wave emission of Sgr A*, which is crucial for constraining theoretical models and for providing a background to interpret 1mm VLBI data from the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT). Following the closure phase analysis in our first paper, which indicates asymmetry in the 3 mm emission of Sgr A*, here we have used the full visibility information to check for possible sub-structure. We extracted source size information from closure amplitude analysis, and investigate how this constrains a combined fit of the size-frequency relation and the scattering law for Sgr A*. We performed high-sensitivity VLBI observations of Sgr A* at 3mm using the Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) and the Large Millimeter Telescope (LMT) in Mexico on two consecutive days in May 2015, with the second epoch including the Greenbank Telescope (GBT). We confirm the asymmetry for the experiment including GBT. Modelling the emission with an elliptical Gaussian results in significant residual flux of ~10mJy in south-eastern direction. The analysis of closure amplitudes allows us to precisely constrain the major and minor axis size of the main emission component. We discuss systematic effects which need to be taken into account. We consider our results in the context of the existing body of size measurements over a range of observing frequencies and investigate how well-constrained the size-frequency relation is by performing a simultaneous fit to the scattering law and the size-frequency relation. We find an overall source geometry that matches previous findings very closely, showing a deviation in fitted model parameters less than 3% over a time scale of weeks and suggesting a highly stable global source geometry over time. The reported sub-structure in the 3mm emission of Sgr A* is consistent with theoretical expectations of refractive noise on long baselines. However, comparing our findings with recent results from 1mm and 7mm VLBI observations, which also show evidence for east-west asymmetry, we cannot exclude an intrinsic origin. Confirmation of persistent intrinsic substructure will require further VLBI observations spread out over multiple epochs.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/other/Sci/348.413
- Title:
- Sgr A East SNR multiwavelength images
- Short Name:
- J/other/Sci/348.
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Dust formation in supernova ejecta is currently the leading candidate to explain the large quantities of dust observed in the distant, early universe. However, it is unclear whether the ejecta-formed dust can survive the hot interior of the supernova remnant (SNR). We present infrared observations of ~0.02 solar masses of warm (~100 kelvin) dust seen near the center of the ~10,000-year-old Sagittarius A East SNR at the Galactic center. Our findings indicate the detection of dust within an older SNR that is expanding into a relatively dense surrounding medium (electron density ~10^3^ centimeters^-3^) and has survived the passage of the reverse shock. The results suggest that supernovae may be the dominant dust-production mechanism in the dense environment of galaxies of the early universe.
1538. SgrA* emission at 7mm
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/428/2731
- Title:
- SgrA* emission at 7mm
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/428/2731
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present the result of 6yr monitoring of SgrA*, radio source associated with the supermassive black hole at the centre of the Milky Way. Single dish observations were performed with the Itapetinga radio telescope at 7mm, and the contribution of the SgrA Complex that surrounds SgrA* was subtracted and used as instantaneous calibrator. The observations were alternated every 10-min with those of the HII region SrgB2, which was also used as a calibrator. The reliability of the detections was tested comparing them with simultaneous observations using interferometric techniques. During the observing period we detected a continuous increase in the SgrA* flux density starting in 2008, as well as variability in time-scales of days and strong intraday fluctuations.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/618/L10
- Title:
- SgrA* orbital motions with GRAVITY
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/618/L10
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We report the detection of continuous positional and polarization changes of the compact source SgrA* in high states ('flares') of its variable near- infrared emission with the near-infrared GRAVITY-Very Large Telescope Interferometer (VLTI) beam-combining instrument. In three prominent bright flares, the position centroids exhibit clockwise looped motion on the sky, on scales of typically 150 micro-arcseconds over a few tens of minutes, corresponding to about 30% the speed of light. At the same time, the flares exhibit continuous rotation of the polarization angle, with about the same 45(+/-15)-minute period as that of the centroid motions. Modelling with relativistic ray tracing shows that these findings are all consistent with a near face-on, circular orbit of a compact polarized 'hot spot' of infrared synchrotron emission at approximately six to ten times the gravitational radius of a black hole of 4 million solar masses. This corresponds to the region just outside the innermost, stable, prograde circular orbit (ISCO) of a Schwarzschild-Kerr black hole, or near the retrograde ISCO of a highly spun-up Kerr hole. The polarization signature is consistent with orbital motion in a strong poloidal magnetic field.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/127/3399
- Title:
- Sgr A* variability at cm wavelengths
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/127/3399
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present the results of a 3.3yr project to monitor the flux density of Sagittarius A* at 2.0, 1.3, and 0.7cm with the Very Large Array. Between 2000.5 and 2003.0, 119 epochs of data were taken with a mean separation between epochs of 8 days. After 2003.0, observations were made roughly once per month for a total of nine additional epochs. Details of the data calibration process are discussed, including corrections for opacity and elevation effects, as well as changes in the flux density scales between epochs. The fully calibrated light curves for Sgr A* at all three wavelengths are presented.
