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Fabry-Perot Images of Ionised and Molecular Hydrogen in Sgr A

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 September 2016

D. L Depoy
Affiliation:
N.O.A.O.∗ Tucson Arizona
Ian Gatley
Affiliation:
N.O.A.O.∗ Tucson Arizona
I. S. Mclean
Affiliation:
Joint Astronomy Center 665 Komohana Street Hilo, Hawaii

Abstract

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Images of the central 36 arcseconds of the Galaxy in the Brackett gamma line of atomic hydrogen (2.17μm) at a spatial resolution of 0.6 arcsec and a velocity resolution of 110 km/sec were obtained using UKIRT. The velocity separation between adjacent frames is 55 km/sec; 17 different velocities channels were imaged. Several distinct kinematic components are evident within the clumpy distribution of the ionised gas. An image in the v=1-0 S(1) line of molecular hydrogen (2.12μm) clearly resolves the structure of the “molecular ring.”

Type
Sagittarius A West and the Circumnuclear Disk
Copyright
Copyright © Kluwer 1989 

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