The Nobeyama 45 m Survey of Shocked Molecular Gas in the Central Molecular Zone. I. Survey Data, Cloud Catalog, and SiO Line-Ratio Trends
astro-ph.GA
Submitted: 2026-08-26
Updated: 2026-08-26
Comments: Accepted for publication in ApJS. 36 pages, 27 figures, 4 tables. Calibrated FITS data products are available at doi:10.5281/zenodo.19588616
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
The gist: We present large-scale molecular line maps of the Central Molecular Zone (CMZ) in our Galaxy obtained with the Nobeyama Radio Observatory 45 m telescope.
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Abstract
We present large-scale molecular line maps of the Central Molecular Zone (CMZ) in our Galaxy obtained with the Nobeyama Radio Observatory 45 m telescope. The observations cover a 3.5 deg x 0.5 deg region with 20 arcsec resolution in eight molecular lines including SiO J=2-1, CS J=2-1, H13CN J=1-0, and HCN J=1-0. We release the calibrated data cubes and a catalog of SiO-emitting clouds identified by the SCIMES algorithm. For each cloud, we provide cloud-integrated intensities of the observed lines and derive an H13CN-based molecular gas mass and a cloud-averaged H2 number density. We compare SiO intensity ratios with the density, dynamical time, and their product n H2 t dyn. We find that SiO intensity ratios relative to six other molecular lines all decrease systematically with increasing n H2 t dyn. The tightest correlations are found for SiO/H13CN (r s = -0.82) and SiO/CS (r s = -0.70). The released data cubes and cloud catalog enable systematic studies of SiO enhancement, shock chemistry, and gas dynamical evolution across the CMZ.
Sources
- ALMA Central molecular zone Exploration Survey (ACES) V: CS(2-1), SO(2_3-1_2), CH3CHO(5_1,4-4_1,3), HC3N(11-10), and H40a lines data
- ALMA Central Molecular Zone Exploration Survey (ACES) I: Overview
- ALMA Central Molecular Zone Exploration Survey (ACES)-IV. Data of the two intermediate-width spectral windows
- ALMA Central molecular zone Exploration Survey (ACES) III: Molecular line data reduction and HNCO and HCO$^{+}$ data
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