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From Scaling Relations to Physical Laws: Constraining the Physics of Star Formation Across Local Galaxies
Jakob den Brok, Cecilia Bacchini, Leindert A. Boogaard +21
The conversion of cold dense gas, traced by molecular line emission, into stars remains one of the fundamental unsolved problems in galaxy evolution. Observations over the past dec…
CHemical Evolution in MassIve star-forming COres (CHEMICO). II. Molecular ions, electron fraction, and cosmic-ray ionisation rate
F. Fontani, E. Roueff, V. M. Rivilla +5
Molecular ions are crucial in initiating and regulating the formation of molecules in the interstellar medium, and are expected to be sensitive tracers of evolution in star-forming…
The Galactic centre G+0.633-0.0604 molecular cloud: A new astrochemical gold mine: II. Chemical richness
D. San Andrés, V. M. Rivilla, L. Colzi +4
In recent years, the inventory of interstellar molecules has rapidly grown, yet detections of complex species are confined to a few chemically rich sources, raising the question of…
ACES VIII: A Survey of Compact, High-Velocity Features Observed in CS(2-1)
Dani R. Lipman, Jakub Poznanski, Savannah R. Gramze +46
The extreme kinematics of the Milky Way's Central Molecular Zone (CMZ) are influenced by processes such as dynamical shearing, cloud collisions, and stellar feedback. These events…
ACES VII. Compact Continuum Source Catalog of the Central Molecular Zone
Jennifer Wallace, Cara Battersby, Nazar Budaiev +58
The Central Molecular Zone (CMZ) resides in the inner few hundred parsecs of our Galaxy, and despite being the largest reservoir of dense molecular gas in the Milky Way, it has a r…
The Galactic Centre G+0.633-0.0604 Molecular Cloud: A New Gold Mine for Astrochemistry
D. San Andrés, V. M. Rivilla, L. Colzi +4
Astrochemistry is living a golden age, with more than a quarter of the ~350 molecules in the current interstellar census having been detected over the last three years. One of the…
Electron temperature and emission measure of HII regions in the central molecular zone (CMZ) from H40 αrecombination line and continuum emissions by ALMA CMZ Exploration Survey - ACES -
Yoshiaki Sofue, Steven N. Longmore, Daniel Walker +40
Star formation activity in the Central Molecular Zone (CMZ) directly manifests itself as radio continuum free-free emission (Bremsstrahlung) and radio recombination line emission f…
Chemical modelling of interstellar MgS
M. Rey-Montejo, I. Jimenez-Serra, T. Millar +8
The detection of magnesium sulphide (MgS) and sodium sulphide (NaS) towards the Galactic Center molecular cloud G+0.693 constitutes the first detection of metal sulphides in the in…
High C/C isotopic ratios toward G+0.693-0.027: evidence for gas inflow to the Central Molecular Zone
L. Colzi, O. Sipilä, I. Jiménez-Serra +4
Isotopic ratios are key tracers of Galactic chemical evolution because different isotopes are synthesized through distinct stellar nucleosynthesis processes. While the C/$^{…
The Galactic centre G+0.633-0.0604 molecular cloud: A new astrochemical gold mine: I. Gas physical properties
D. San Andrés, L. Colzi, V. M. Rivilla +4
In the Central Molecular Zone (CMZ), shocks play a key role in triggering star formation and driving chemical enrichment. The Sgr B2 complex is a prime template, hosting massive pr…
ALMAGAL IX. The chemical complexity of AG318.9477-00.1960: A line-identification template for ALMAGAL
J. Allande, M. T. Beltrán, V. M. Rivilla +36
We present a detailed molecular line analysis of one of the most chemically rich cores in the ALMAGAL sample, the high-mass core~9 in the AG318.9477-00.1960 clump (AG318-c9), locat…
Detection of a four-carbon sugar in interstellar space
Izaskun Jimenez-Serra, Juan Garcia de la Concepcion, Herma M. Cuppen +19
Sugars are essential biomolecules, serving as metabolic fuels, nucleic acid backbone components, and structural or energy-storage polymers. A central question in origin-of-life res…
Aromatic rings in the Central Molecular Zone: Benzonitrile
V. M. Rivilla, D. San Andrés, M. Sanz-Novo +12
In recent years, several aromatic molecules (benzene-based rings) have been detected in the cold molecular cloud TMC-1, with its CN-derivative, benzonitrile (c-CHCN), also…
ALMA Central molecular zone Exploration Survey (ACES) V: CS(2-1), SO(2_3-1_2), CH3CHO(5_1,4-4_1,3), HC3N(11-10), and H40a lines data
Pei-Ying Hsieh, Daniel L. Walker, Adam Ginsburg +59
We present data from the ALMA Central Molecular Zone Exploration Survey (ACES) Large Program, which provides broad spectral-line and 3 mm continuum coverage of the Central Molecula…
ALMA Central Molecular Zone Exploration Survey (ACES)-IV. Data of the two intermediate-width spectral windows
Xing Lu, Daniel L. Walker, Adam Ginsburg +61
We release the intermediate-width spectral window data from the ALMA Central Molecular Zone Exploration Survey (ACES) Large Program, which covers SiO(2-1), SO(2_2-1_1), H13CO+(1-0)…
ALMA Central Molecular Zone Exploration Survey (ACES) I: Overview
Steven N. Longmore, John Bally, Ashley T. Barnes +95
The mass flows and energy cycles within the inner regions of galaxies exert a powerful influence on the evolution of the galaxy population. The centre of the Milky Way is the only…
ALMA Central molecular zone Exploration Survey (ACES) III: Molecular line data reduction and HNCO and HCO data
Daniel L. Walker, Adam Ginsburg, Ashley T. Barnes +64
The ALMA Central molecular zone Exploration Survey (ACES) large program has observed the inner ~ 200 pc of the Milky Way at 3 mm (Band 3) using ALMA's 12m, 7m, and Total Power arra…
ALMA Central Molecular Zone Exploration Survey (ACES) II: 3mm continuum images
Adam Ginsburg, Daniel L. Walker, Ashley T. Barnes +69
The ALMA Central Molecular Zone Exploration Survey, ACES, has mapped square arcminutes at 3 mm toward the center of our Galaxy. ACES provides the first large-scale, h…
The GUAPOS project -- VII: Physical structure and molecular environment of the G31.41+0.31 HII region
R. Cesaroni, M. T. Beltrán, V. M. Rivilla +6
Ionised regions around OB-type stars are formed at an early stage of their evolution and are important to investigate the formation process of these objects. However, so far only f…
ALMA Central molecular zone Exploration Survey (ACES) VI: ALMA Large Program Reveals a Highly Filamentary Central Molecular Zone
Cara Battersby, Miriam G. Santa-Maria, Dani Lipman +44
The Central Molecular Zone (CMZ) of the Milky Way is the way station that primarily controls how much gas flows from the disk of the Galaxy towards the central nucleus. While this…
Expanding the CHO Isomeric Interstellar Inventory: Discovery of Lactaldehyde and Methoxyacetaldehyde in G+0.693-0.027
M. Sanz-Novo, V. M. Rivilla, I. Jiménez-Serra +17
The tentative detection of 3-hydroxypropanal (HO(CH)C(O)H) toward the Galactic center molecular cloud G+0.693-0.027 prompts a systematic survey in this source aimed at dete…
Unveiling the 3D structure of the central molecular zone from stellar kinematics and photometry: The 50 and 20 km/s clouds
Francisco Nogueras-Lara, Ashley T. Barnes, Jonathan D. Henshaw +25
The central molecular zone (CMZ), surrounding the Galactic centre, is the largest reservoir of dense molecular gas in the Galaxy. Despite its relative proximity, the 3D structure o…
Rotation and stability of the circumnuclear gas disk in the Galactic Center potential by the ALMA CMZ Exploration Survey (ACES)
Yoshiaki Sofue, Steven N. Longmore, Daniel Walker +26
We investigated the gravitational potential and mass distribution in the Galactic Center by examining the morphology and kinematics of the circumnuclear gaseous disk revealed by th…
Mass Assembly and Chemical Complexity in the Milky Way
Pamela Klaassen, David Eden, Alessio Traficante +13
(Sub-)millimeter spectral lines can be used not only to understand the chemical complexity and enrichment history of an observed portion of our Galaxy, but with spectrally resolved…