GREAT confirms transient nature of the circum-nuclear disk
GREAT confirms transient nature of the circum-nuclear disk
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GREAT 证实了环核盘的瞬态性质
DOI:
10.1051/0004-6361/201219068
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发表时间:
2012
影响因子:
6.5
通讯作者:
Risacher
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作者:
Requena-Torres;Güsten;Harris;Martìn- Pintado;Stutzki;Heyminck;Risacher
We report SOFIA/GREAT,Herschel/HIFI, and ground-based velocity-resolved spectroscopy of carbon monoxide (CO) rotational transitions fromJ= 2–1 toJ= 16–15 toward two positions in the circum-nuclear disk (CND) in our Galactic center. Radiative transfer models were used to derive information on the physical state of the gas traced by CO. The excitation of the CO gas cannot be explained by a single physical component, but is clearly the superposition of various warm gas phases. In a two-component approach, our large velocity gradient (LVG) analysis suggests high temperatures of ~200 K with moderate gas densities of only ~104.5cm-3for the bulk of the material. A higher excited phase, carrying ~20–30% of the column densities, is warmer (~300–500 K) but only slightly denser (~105.3cm-3). These densities are too low to self-stabilize the clumps against their high internal turbulence and fall below the Roche density (>107cm-3) at 1.5 pc galactocentric distance. We conclude that the bulk of the material in the CND is not organized by self-gravity nor stable against tidal disruption, and must be transient.
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发表时间:
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