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4.2. The Galactic center region filled by molecular shells
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 25 May 2016
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The kinematics and structures of the molecular clouds probably give us key information for activities in the Galactic center region. CS lines are good tracers of dense molecular clouds. In addition, the lines are expected to be nearly free from the strong contamination of disk molecular clouds because of high critical density, n(H2) ≃ 104cm−3. Thus, we have made survey observations of the Galactic center region in the CS J=1-0 line with the Nobeyama 45-m telescope (Tsuboi, Handa, and Ukita 1997). The beamsize is 34″ and the achieved noise was Trms = 0.25 K/1.6 km s−1 in TMB. Then, we detected the molecular mass of M(H2)CS, thin = (3 − 8) × 107 M⊙ in the Galactic center molecular zone (CMZ), assuming of optically thin, Tex = 30 − 80 K (Güsten 1989), and X(CS) = 1 × 10−8 (Irvine et al. 1987).
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- Part II. Nuclear Interstellar Medium
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- Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 184: The Central Regions of the Galaxy and Galaxies , 1998 , pp. 169 - 170
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- Copyright © Kluwer 1998