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Publications (11)

astro-ph.GA2024

The CO-dark molecular gas in the cold HI arc

Gan Luo, Di Li, Zhi-yu Zhang +6

The CO-dark molecular gas (DMG), which refers to the molecular gas not traced by CO emission, is crucial for the evolution of the interstellar medium (ISM). While the gas propertie…

astro-ph.GA2023

An improved method to measure and abundance ratios: revisiting CN isotopologues in the Galactic outer disk

Yichen Sun, Zhi-Yu Zhang, Junzhi Wang +7

The variations of elemental abundance and their ratios along the Galactocentric radius result from the chemical evolution of the Milky Way disks. The ratio in p…

astro-ph.GA2025

Scientific Objectives of the Xue-shan-mu-chang 15-meter Submillimeter Telescope

XSMT Project Collaboration Group, Yiping Ao, Jin Chang +48

Submillimeter astronomy is poised to revolutionize our understanding of the Universe by revealing cosmic phenomena hidden from optical and near-infrared observations, particularly…

astro-ph.GA2025

JWST + ALMA ubiquitously discover companion systems within kpc around four 3.5 luminous radio-loud AGN

Wuji Wang, Carlos De Breuck, Dominika Wylezalek +11

Mergers play important roles in galaxy evolution at and beyond Cosmic Noon (). They are found to be a trigger of active galactic nuclei (AGN) activity and a process for gro…

astro-ph.GA2024

Gas dynamics in an AGN-host galaxy at : regular rotation, non-circular motions, and mass models

Lingrui Lin, Federico Lelli, Carlos De Breuck +9

The gas dynamics of galaxies provide critical insights into the evolution of both baryons and dark matter (DM) across cosmic time. In this context, galaxies at cosmic noon -- the p…

astro-ph.GA2024

Molecular gas mass measurements of an active, starburst galaxy at using ALMA observations of the [CI], CO and dust emission

Hao-Tse Huang, Allison W. S. Man, Federico Lelli +7

We present new ALMA observations of a starburst galaxy at cosmic noon hosting a radio-loud active galactic nucleus: PKS 0529-549 at . To investigate the conditions of its c…

astro-ph.GA2026

Anomalously high deuterium fractionation in a galactic translucent cloud: a challenge to chemical models

Gan Luo, Zhi-Yu Zhang, Thomas G. Bisbas +8

Deuterated (D-) species have long been proposed to diagnose the physical conditions and chemical evolution of cold dense molecular clouds. While deuterium fractionation has been ex…

astro-ph.GA2022

Dependence of Chemical Abundance on the Cosmic Ray Ionization Rate in IC 348

Gan Luo, Zhi-Yu Zhang, Thomas G. Bisbas +8

Ions (e.g., H, HO) have been used extensively to quantify the cosmic-ray ionization rate (CRIR) in diffuse sightlines. However, measurements of CRIR in low-to-interme…

astro-ph.GA2025

Inadequate turbulent support in low-metallicity molecular clouds

Lingrui Lin, Zhi-Yu Zhang, Junzhi Wang +16

The dynamic properties of molecular clouds are set by the interplay of their self-gravity, turbulence, external pressure and magnetic fields. Extended surveys of Galactic molecular…

astro-ph.GA2022

Multiple gas phases in supernova remnant IC 443: mapping shocked H with VLT/KMOS

Yunwei Deng, Zhi-Yu Zhang, Ping Zhou +8

Supernovae and their remnants provide energetic feedback to the ambient interstellar medium (ISM), which is often distributed in multiple gas phases. Among them, warm molecular hyd…

astro-ph.GA2023

Cold gas disks in main-sequence galaxies at cosmic noon: Low turbulence, flat rotation curves, and disk-halo degeneracy

Federico Lelli, Zhi-Yu Zhang, Thomas G. Bisbas +6

We study the dynamics of cold molecular gas in two main-sequence galaxies at cosmic noon (zC-488879 at and zC-400569 at ) using new high-resolution ALMA…