Tracing the chemical footprint of shocks in AGN-host and starburst galaxies with ALMA multi-line molecular studies
arXiv:2307.02812 · doi:10.1039/D3FD00007A
Abstract
Multi-line molecular observations are an ideal tool for a systematic study of the physico-chemical processes in the Interstellar Medium (ISM), given the wide range of critical densities associated with different molecules and their transitions, and the dependencies of chemical reactions on the energy budget of the system. Recently high spatial resolution of typical shock tracers - SiO, HNCO, and CH3OH - have been studied in the potentially shocked regions in two nearby galaxies: NGC 1068 (an AGN-host galaxy) (Huang et al., Astron. Astrophys., 2022, 666, A102; Huang et al., in prep.) and NGC 253 (a starburst galaxy) (K.-Y. Huang et al., arXiv, 2023, preprint, arXiv:2303.12685, DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2303.12685). This paper is dedicated to the comparative study of these two distinctively different galaxies, with the aim of determining the differences in their energetics and understanding large-scale shocks in dfferent types of galaxies.
Accepted for publication in Faraday Discussions 2023. 18 pages, 7 figures and 2 tables
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