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astro-ph.GA2017★ 69 cited

The TOP-SCOPE survey of Planck Galactic Cold Clumps: Survey overview and results of an exemplar source, PGCC G26.53+0.17

Tie Liu, Kee-Tae Kim, Mika Juvela +11

The low dust temperatures (<14 K) of Planck Galactic Cold Clumps (PGCCs) make them ideal targets to probe the initial conditions and very early phase of star formation. TOP-SCOPE i…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 1 cited

A systematic observational study of radio properties of H2O megamaser Seyfert 2s: A Guide for H2O megamaser surveys

J. S. Zhang, Z. W. Liu, C. Henkel

Analyzing archival data from different telescopes, H2O megamaser Seyfert 2s appeared to exhibit higher nuclear radio luminosities than non-masing Seyfert 2s (Zhang et al. 2012). Th…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 14 cited

IFU spectroscopy of southern PN VI: The extraordinary chemo-dynamics of Hen 2-111

M. A. Dopita, A. Ali, A. I. Karakas +3

In this paper we present integral field spectroscopy of the extraordinary Type I bipolar planetary nebula Hen 2-111. In the lobes we map fast moving knots of material with [N II]$λ…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 15 cited

ALMA Observations of the Physical and Chemical Conditions in Centaurus A

Mark McCoy, Jürgen Ott, David S. Meier +13

Centaurus A, with its gas-rich elliptical host galaxy, NGC 5128, is the nearest radio galaxy at a distance of 3.8 Mpc. Its proximity allows us to study the interaction between an a…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 47 cited

ATLASGAL-selected massive clumps in the inner Galaxy: VI. Kinetic temperature and spatial density measured with formaldehyde

X. D. Tang, C. Henkel, F. Wyrowski +11

We aim to directly determine the kinetic temperature and spatial density with formaldehyde for the 100 brightest ATLASGAL-selected clumps at 870 m representing various evo…

astro-ph.GA2017

SO survey of massive cores

Igor Zinchenko, Christian Henkel

We present the results of a survey of several tens of dense high mass star forming (HMSF) cores in three transitions of the SO molecule at 30 and 100 GHz with the 100-m Effelsberg…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 87 cited

High-mass Star Formation through Filamentary Collapse and Clump-fed Accretion in G22

Jinghua Yuan, Jin-Zeng Li, Yuefang Wu +8

How mass is accumulated from cloud-scale down to individual stars is a key open question in understanding high-mass star formation. Here, we present the mass accumulation process i…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 97 cited

The Survey of Water and Ammonia in the Galactic Center (SWAG): Molecular Cloud Evolution in the Central Molecular Zone

Nico Krieger, Jürgen Ott, Henrik Beuther +21

The Survey of Water and Ammonia in the Galactic Center (SWAG) covers the Central Molecular Zone (CMZ) of the Milky Way at frequencies between 21.2 and 25.4 GHz obtained at the Aust…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 36 cited

Kinetic temperature of massive star-forming molecular clumps measured with formaldehyde. III. The Orion Molecular Cloud 1

X. D. Tang, C. Henkel, K. M. Menten +10

We mapped the kinetic temperature structure of the Orion molecular cloud 1 with para-H2CO(303-202, 322-221, and 321-220) using the APEX 12m telescope. This is compared with the tem…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 45 cited

ALMA imaging of C2H emission in the disk of NGC1068

S. Garcia-Burillo, S. Viti, F. Combes +16

We study the feedback of star formation and nuclear activity on the chemistry of molecular gas in NGC1068, a nearby (D=14Mpc) Seyfert 2 barred galaxy, by analyzing if the abundance…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 14 cited

The diffuse molecular component in the nuclear bulge of the Milky Way

D. Riquelme, L. Bronfman, R. Mauersberger +4

Context: The bulk of the Molecular gas in the Central Molecular Zone (CMZ) of the Galactic center region shows warm kinetic temperatures, ranging from K in the coldest and de…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 27 cited

Detection of CH+, SH+, and their 13C- and 34S- isotopologues toward PKS1830-211

S. Muller, H. S. P. M"uller, J. H. Black +13

The z=0.89 molecular absorber toward PKS1830-211 provides us with the opportunity to probe the chemical and physical properties of the interstellar medium in the disk of a galaxy a…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 10 cited

[CI], [CII] and CO emission lines as a probe for alpha variations at low and high redshifts

S. A. Levshakov, K. -W. Ng, C. Henkel +1

The offsets between the radial velocities of the rotational transitions of carbon monoxide and the fine structure transitions of neutral and singly ionized carbon are used to test…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 41 cited

Disentangling the Circumnuclear Environs of Centaurus A: III. An Inner Molecular Ring, Nuclear Shocks and the CO to warm H2 interface

D. Espada, S. Matsushita, R. E. Miura +11

We present the distribution and kinematics of the molecular gas in the circumnuclear disk (CND, 400 pc x 200 pc) of Centaurus A with resolutions of ~5 pc (0.3 arcsec) and shed ligh…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 7 cited

Radio continuum of galaxies with HO megamaser disks: 33 GHz VLA data

F. Kamali, C. Henkel, A. Brunthaler +10

We investigate the nuclear environment of galaxies with observed 22 GHz water megamaser in their subparsec edge-on accretion disks, using 33 GHz (9mm) radio continuum data from VLA…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 16 cited

Circumnuclear Structures in Megamaser Host Galaxies

Patryk Pjanka, Jenny E. Greene, Anil C. Seth +4

Using HST, we identify circumnuclear (- pc scale) structures in nine new HO megamaser host galaxies to understand the flow of matter from kpc-scale galactic structure…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 24 cited

IFU spectroscopy of Southern Planetary Nebulae IV: A Physical Model for IC 418

M. A. Dopita, A. Ali, R. S. Sutherland +2

We describe high spectral resolution, high dynamic range integral field spectroscopy of IC418 covering the spectral range 3300-8950Å and compare with earlier data. We determine lin…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 41 cited

High-mass Starless Clumps in the inner Galactic Plane: the Sample and Dust Properties

Jinghua Yuan, Yuefang Wu, Simon P. Ellingsen +7

We report a sample of 463 high-mass starless clump (HMSC) candidates within and . This sample has been singled out from 10861 ATLASGAL clumps. All of these s…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 15 cited

Physical conditions of the molecular gas in metal-poor galaxies

L. K. Hunt, A. Weiss, C. Henkel +8

Studying the molecular component of the interstellar medium in metal-poor galaxies has been challenging because of the faintness of carbon monoxide emission, the most common proxy…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 23 cited

Deep submillimeter and radio observations in the SSA22 field. I. Powering sources and Lyα escape fraction of Lyα blobs

Y. Ao, Y. Matsuda, C. Henkel +22

We study the heating mechanisms and Lyα escape fractions of 35 Lyα blobs (LABs) at z = 3.1 in the SSA22 field. Dust continuum sources have been identified in 11 of the 35 LABs, all…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 26 cited

DGSAT: Dwarf Galaxy Survey with Amateur Telescopes II. A catalogue of isolated nearby edge-on disk galaxies and the discovery of new low surface brightness systems

C. Henkel, B. Javanmardi, D. Martinez-Delgado +2

The connection between the bulge mass or bulge luminosity in disk galaxies and the number, spatial and phase space distribution of associated dwarf galaxies is a discriminator betw…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 43 cited

The efficiency of ionising photon production and the radiation energy balance in compact star-forming galaxies

Y. I. Izotov, N. G. Guseva, K. J. Fricke +2

We derive apparent and absolute ultraviolet (UV) magnitudes, and luminosities in the infrared (IR) range of a large sample of low-redshift (0<z<1) compact star-forming galaxies (CS…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 34 cited

Kinetic temperature of massive star forming molecular clumps measured with formaldehyde. II. The Large Magellanic Cloud

X. D. Tang, C. Henkel, C. -H. R. Chen +8

The Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), the closest star forming galaxy with low metallicity, provides an ideal laboratory to study star formation in such an environment. The classical d…