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赫歇尔在银河系中心周围发现的一个100秒差距的椭圆形扭曲环,由寒冷而密集的分子云组成。

A 100-parsec elliptical and twisted ring of cold and dense molecular clouds revealed by Herschel around the Galactic Center

S. Molinari, J. Bally, A. Noriega-Crespo, M. Compiègne, J. P. Bernard, D. Paradis, P. Martin, L. Testi, M. Barlow, T. Moore, R. Plume, B. Swinyard, A. Zavagno, … 展开作者

S. Molinari, J. Bally, A. Noriega-Crespo, M. Compiègne, J. P. Bernard, D. Paradis, P. Martin, L. Testi, M. Barlow, T. Moore, R. Plume, B. Swinyard, A. Zavagno, L. Calzoletti, A. M. Di Giorgio, D. Elia, F. Faustini, P. Natoli, M. Pestalozzi, S. Pezzuto, F. Piacentini, G. Polenta, D. Polychroni, E. Schisano, A. Traficante, M. Veneziani, C. Battersby, M. Burton, S. Carey, Y. Fukui, J. Z. Li, S. D. Lord, L. Morgan, F. Motte, F. Schuller, G. S. Stringfellow, J. C. Tan, M. A. Thompson, D. Ward-Thompson, G. White, G. Umana

摘要:

由赫歇尔卫星上的远红外照相机拍摄的银河系中央分子区冷尘埃的热图像显示,银河系中心有一个3 × 10^7太阳质量的稠密冷云环。使用一个简单的玩具模型,一个椭圆形的半长轴为100和60秒差距的推导。这个100 pc环的长轴相对于天空平面倾斜约40度,并且垂直于银河棒的长轴。100-pc环似乎跟踪系统的稳定x_2轨道预测的禁止银河系的潜力。Sgr A* 相对于环的几何对称中心移位。环是扭曲的,它的形态表明,银河系势的膨胀比为2,这与2 MASS数据得出的凸起平坦比非常一致。

英文摘要:

Thermal images of cold dust in the Central Molecular Zone of the Milky Way, obtained with the far-infrared cameras on-board the Herschel satellite, reveal a 3x10^7 solar masses ring of dense and cold clouds orbiting the Galactic Center. Using a simple toy-model, an elliptical shape having semi-major axes of 100 and 60 parsecs is deduced. The major axis of this 100-pc ring is inclined by about 40 degrees with respect to the plane-of-the-sky and is oriented perpendicular to the major axes of the Galactic Bar. The 100-pc ring appears to trace the system of stable x_2 orbits predicted for the barred Galactic potential. Sgr A* is displaced with respect to the geometrical center of symmetry of the ring. The ring is twisted and its morphology suggests a flattening-ratio of 2 for the Galactic potential, which is in good agreement with the bulge flattening ratio derived from the 2MASS data.

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