The thermal state of molecular clouds in the Galactic center: Evidence for non-photon-driven heating

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Volumn 550, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Ao, Y ^a,b   Henkel, C ^a,c   Menten, K M ^a   Requena Torres, M A ^a   Stanke, T ^d   Mauersberger, R ^e   Aalto, S ^f   Muhle S ^g   Mangum, J ^h  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR RADIOASTRONOMIE   (Germany)

^b CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c KING ABDULAZIZ UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^d EUROPEAN SOUTHERN OBSERVATORY   (Germany)

^e JOINT ALMA OBSERVATORY   (Chile)

^f CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^g UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^h NATIONAL RADIO ASTRONOMY OBSERVATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Galaxy: center; ISM: clouds; ISM: molecules; Radio lines: ISM

Indexed keywords

ANGULAR DISTANCE; ATACAMA PATHFINDER EXPERIMENTS; CO ABSORPTION; DENSE GAS; GALACTIC CENTER; GALACTIC PLANE; GALAXY: CENTER; HIGH TEMPERATURE; HIGHEST TEMPERATURE; ISM : CLOUDS; ISM: MOLECULES; KINETIC TEMPERATURES; LINEAR RESOLUTIONS; LOWER FREQUENCIES; MOLECULAR CLOUDS; MOLECULAR GAS; RADIO LINES: ISM; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE; STARBURSTS; THERMAL STATE; TURBULENT ENERGY DISSIPATION; ULTRALUMINOUS INFRARED GALAXIES;

CLOUDS; ENERGY DISSIPATION; GALAXIES; KINETICS; MOLECULES;

PHOTONS;

EID: 84873679229     PISSN: 00046361     EISSN: 14320746     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201220096     Document Type: Article

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