A deep submillimetre survey of the Galactic Centre

Abstract

We present first results from a submillimetre continuum survey of the Galactic Centre `Central Molecular Zone' (CMZ), made with SCUBA on the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope. SCUBA's scan-map mode has allowed us to make extremely wide-field maps of thermal dust emission with unprecedented speed and sensitivity. We also discuss some issues related to the elimination of artefacts in scan-map data. Our simultaneous 850/450 micron maps have a total size of approximately 2.8 x 0.5 degrees (400 x 75 pc) elongated along the galactic plane. They cover the Sgr A region-including Sgr A*, the circumnuclear disc, and the +20 km/s and +50 km/s clouds; the area around the Pistol; Sgr B2-the brightest feature on the map; and at their Galactic Western and Eastern edges the Sgr C and Sgr D regions. There are many striking features such as filaments and shell-like structures, as well as point sources such as Sgr A* itself. The total mass in the Central Molecular Zone is greater than that revealed in previous optically-thin molecular line maps by a factor of ~3, and new details are revealed on scales down to 0.33 pc across this 400 pc wide region.

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