Submitted to Ap J L Gas Density, Stability and Starbursts Near the Inner Lindblad Resonance of the Milky Way
A key project of the Antarctic Submillimeter Telescope and Remote Observatory reported by Martin et al. (2004) is the mapping of CO J = 4 → 3 and J = 7 → 6 emission from the inner Milky Way, allowing determination of gas density and temperature. Galactic center gas that Binney et al. (1991) identify...
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ftciteseerx:oai:CiteSeerX.psu:10.1.1.337.5674 2023-05-15T13:38:57+02:00 Submitted to Ap J L Gas Density, Stability and Starbursts Near the Inner Lindblad Resonance of the Milky Way Antony A. Stark Christopher L. Martin Wilfred M. Walsh Kecheng Xiao Adair P. Lane Christopher K. Walker The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives 2004 application/pdf http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.337.5674 http://arxiv.org/pdf/astro-ph/0405330v1.pdf en eng http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.337.5674 http://arxiv.org/pdf/astro-ph/0405330v1.pdf Metadata may be used without restrictions as long as the oai identifier remains attached to it. http://arxiv.org/pdf/astro-ph/0405330v1.pdf Subject headings Galaxy structure—ISM clouds—ISM molecules—galaxies text 2004 ftciteseerx 2016-01-07T23:44:08Z A key project of the Antarctic Submillimeter Telescope and Remote Observatory reported by Martin et al. (2004) is the mapping of CO J = 4 → 3 and J = 7 → 6 emission from the inner Milky Way, allowing determination of gas density and temperature. Galactic center gas that Binney et al. (1991) identify as being on x2 orbits has a density near 10 3.5 cm −3, which renders it only marginally stable against gravitational coagulation into a few Giant Molecular Clouds, as discussed by Elmegreen (1994). This suggests a relaxation oscillator mechanism for starbursts in the Milky Way, where inflowing gas accumulates in a ring at 150 pc radius for approximately 20 million years, until the critical density is reached, and the resulting instability leads to the sudden formation of giant clouds and the deposition of 4 × 10 7 M ⊙ of gas onto the Galactic center. Text Antarc* Antarctic Unknown Antarctic The Antarctic Milky Way ENVELOPE(-68.705,-68.705,-71.251,-71.251) |
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A key project of the Antarctic Submillimeter Telescope and Remote Observatory reported by Martin et al. (2004) is the mapping of CO J = 4 → 3 and J = 7 → 6 emission from the inner Milky Way, allowing determination of gas density and temperature. Galactic center gas that Binney et al. (1991) identify as being on x2 orbits has a density near 10 3.5 cm −3, which renders it only marginally stable against gravitational coagulation into a few Giant Molecular Clouds, as discussed by Elmegreen (1994). This suggests a relaxation oscillator mechanism for starbursts in the Milky Way, where inflowing gas accumulates in a ring at 150 pc radius for approximately 20 million years, until the critical density is reached, and the resulting instability leads to the sudden formation of giant clouds and the deposition of 4 × 10 7 M ⊙ of gas onto the Galactic center. |
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