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Radio continuum and molecular gas in the Galactic Center

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Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Physics ((LNP,volume 474))

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Nonthermal radio emission in the Galactic Center reveals a number of vertical structures across the Galactic plane, which are attributed to poloidal magnetic field and/or energetic outflow. Thermal radio emission comprises star forming regions distributed in a thin, dense thermal gas disk. The thermal region is associated with a dense molecular gas disk, in which the majority of gas is concentrated in a rotating molecular ring. Outflow structures like the radio lobe is associated with rotating molecular gas at high speed, consistent with a twisted magnetic cylinder driven by accretion of a rotating gas disk.

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Aage Sandqvist Per Olof Lindblad

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Sofue, Y. (1996). Radio continuum and molecular gas in the Galactic Center. In: Sandqvist, A., Lindblad, P.O. (eds) Barred Galaxies and Circumnuclear Activity. Lecture Notes in Physics, vol 474. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0101978

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  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0101978

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