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astro-ph.GA2026

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…

astro-ph.GA2026

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…

astro-ph.GA2026

3D CMZ V: A new orbital model of our Galaxy's Center, informed by data across the electromagnetic spectrum

Dani R. Lipman, Cara Battersby, Daniel Walker +9

The 3D structure of The Milky Way's Central Molecular Zone (CMZ) informs our understanding of star formation cycles, black hole accretion, and the evolution of galactic nuclei. How…

astro-ph.GA2026

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…

astro-ph.GA2026

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)…

astro-ph.GA2026

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…

astro-ph.GA2026

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…

astro-ph.GA2026

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…

astro-ph.GA2026

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…

astro-ph.GA2025

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…

astro-ph.GA2025

ACES: The Magnetic Field in Large Filaments in the Galactic Center

Dylan M. Paré, Zi-Xuan Feng, Yue Hu +33

The Galactic Center (GC) is an extreme region of the Milky Way that is host to a complex set of thermal and non-thermal structures. In particular, the GC contains high-density gas…

hep-ph2025

Constraining meV Axion Dark Matter with ALMA Observations of the Galactic Center Magnetar SGR 1745-2900

Javier De Miguel, Evanthia Hatziminaoglou, Frédéric Poidevin +4

We report a mm-wave search for axion dark matter from SGR 1745-2900, based on 4.8 h of ALMA observations. No candidate features are found between 133.99-135.78, 135.91-137.70, 145.…

astro-ph.GA2025

Nonthermal Pressures: Key to Energy Balance and Structure Formation Near Sgr A* in the Milky Way

Farideh Mazoochi, Fatemeh S. Tabatabaei, Ashley T. Barnes +14

The circumnuclear region of the Galactic Center offers a unique laboratory to study energy balance and structure formation around Sgr A. This work investigates thermal and n…

astro-ph.GA2025

Mapping CO Ice in a Star-Forming Filament in the 3 kpc Arm with JWST

Savannah Gramze, Adam Ginsburg, Nazar Budaiev +14

CO gas emission is a fundamental tool for measuring column density, but in cold, dark clouds, much of the CO is locked away in ice. We present JWST results from observations of a s…

astro-ph.GA2025

JWST's first view of the most vigorously star-forming cloud in the Galactic center -- Sagittarius B2

Nazar Budaiev, Adam Ginsburg, Ashley T. Barnes +9

We report JWST NIRCAM and MIRI observations of Sgr B2, one of the most active sites of star formation in the Galaxy. These observations, using 14 filters spanning 1.5 to 25 microns…

astro-ph.GA2025

Circum-nuclear eccentric gas flow in the Galactic Center revealed by ALMA CMZ Exploration Survey (ACES)

Yoshiaki Sofue, Tomoharu Oka, Steven N. Longmore +41

We analyze the CS (J=2-1) line cube from the internal data release obtained by the large-scale program "ALMA CMZ Exploration Survey (ACES)" to investigate the kinematic structure o…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 6 cited

Dual-band Unified Exploration of Three CMZ Clouds (DUET). Cloud-wide census of continuum sources showing low spectral indices

Fengwei Xu, Xing Lu, Ke Wang +19

The Milky Way's Central Molecular Zone (CMZ) is measured to form stars 10 times less efficiently than in the Galactic disk, based on emission from high-mass stars. However, the CMZ…

astro-ph.GA2025

3D MC I: X-ray Tomography Begins to Unravel the 3-D Structure of a Molecular Cloud in our Galaxy's Center

Samantha W. Brunker, Cara Battersby, Danya Alboslani +5

Astronomers have used observations of the Galactic gas and dust via infrared, microwave, and radio to study molecular clouds in extreme environments such as the Galactic center. Mo…

astro-ph.GA2025

3D MC II: X ray echoes reveal a clumpy molecular cloud in the CMZ

Danya Alboslani, Cara Battersby, Samantha Brunker +3

X-ray observations collected over the last decades have revealed a strongly variable X-ray signal within the Milky Way's Galactic center, interpreted as X-ray echoes from its super…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 14 cited

3-D CMZ IV: Distinguishing Near vs. Far Distances in the Galactic Center Using Spitzer and Herschel

Dani Lipman, Cara Battersby, Daniel L. Walker +15

A comprehensive 3-D model of the central 300 pc of the Milky Way, the Central Molecular Zone (CMZ) is of fundamental importance in understanding energy cycles in galactic nuclei, s…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 14 cited

A wind-blown bubble in the Central Molecular Zone cloud G0.253+0.016

J. D. Henshaw, M. R. Krumholz, N. O. Butterfield +16

G0.253+0.016, commonly referred to as "the Brick" and located within the Central Molecular Zone, is one of the densest ( cm) molecular clouds in the Galaxy…