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The Kinematics of the Ionized Filaments in Sgr A West

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 September 2016

E. Serabyn
E. Serabyn*
Affiliation:
Division of Physics, Mathematics and Astronomy California Institute of Technology Downs Lab of Physics, 320-47 Pasadena, CA 91125

Abstract

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The ionized gas within a few parsecs of the center of our galaxy is contained primarily in a number of thin elongated filaments (Ekers, this volume). Infrared and radio line observations have succeeded in determining the gas velocities along the majority of these filaments. A comparison of the line emission velocities with general kinematic models indicates that the motion of the filaments between 0.3 and 2 pc from the center is consistent with predominantly orbital motion.

Type
Sagittarius A West and the Circumnuclear Disk
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 136: The Galactic Center , 1989 , pp. 437 - 441
Copyright
Copyright © Kluwer 1989 

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