The SKA Galactic Centre Survey -- A White Paper
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| author | Schoedel, Rainer Alberdi, Antxon Jimenez-Serra, Izaskun Yusef-Zadeh, Farhad Gardini, Angela Kramer, Michael Torres, Miguel Perez Morris, Mark R. Forbrich, Jan Ingallinera, Adriano Nogueras-Lara, Francisco Henshaw, Jonathan D. Longmore, Steven N. Moldon, Javier Heywood, Ian Rammala, Isabella Mazoochi, Farideh Tabatabei, Fatemeh Montenegro, Lourdes Verdes Exposito, Susana Sanchez |
| author_facet | Schoedel, Rainer Alberdi, Antxon Jimenez-Serra, Izaskun Yusef-Zadeh, Farhad Gardini, Angela Kramer, Michael Torres, Miguel Perez Morris, Mark R. Forbrich, Jan Ingallinera, Adriano Nogueras-Lara, Francisco Henshaw, Jonathan D. Longmore, Steven N. Moldon, Javier Heywood, Ian Rammala, Isabella Mazoochi, Farideh Tabatabei, Fatemeh Montenegro, Lourdes Verdes Exposito, Susana Sanchez |
| contents | With its extreme density of stars and stellar remnants, dense young massive clusters, high specific star formation rate, intense radiation field, high magnetic field strength, and properties of the interstellar medium that resemble those in high redshift galaxies and starbursts, the Galactic Centre is the most extreme environment that we can observe in detail. It is also the only nucleus of a galaxy that we can observe with a resolution of just a few milli parsecs. This makes it a crucial target to understand the physics of galactic nuclei and star formation, as well as the connection between them. It enables studies of a large number of otherwise rare objects, such as extremely massive stars and stellar remnants, at a well-defined distance, thus facilitating the interpretation of their properties. The Galactic Centre has been and is being studied intensively with the most advanced facilities. In this White Paper, we advocate for a large-area, multi-wavelength survey with the Square Kilometre Array of an area of about 1.25x0.3 deg**2 (180x40 pc**2), centered on the massive black hole Sagittarius A* and for repeated deep observations of the nuclear star cluster over a decade, which will allow the community to address multiple science problems with a single data set. |
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| spellingShingle | The SKA Galactic Centre Survey -- A White Paper Schoedel, Rainer Alberdi, Antxon Jimenez-Serra, Izaskun Yusef-Zadeh, Farhad Gardini, Angela Kramer, Michael Torres, Miguel Perez Morris, Mark R. Forbrich, Jan Ingallinera, Adriano Nogueras-Lara, Francisco Henshaw, Jonathan D. Longmore, Steven N. Moldon, Javier Heywood, Ian Rammala, Isabella Mazoochi, Farideh Tabatabei, Fatemeh Montenegro, Lourdes Verdes Exposito, Susana Sanchez Astrophysics of Galaxies With its extreme density of stars and stellar remnants, dense young massive clusters, high specific star formation rate, intense radiation field, high magnetic field strength, and properties of the interstellar medium that resemble those in high redshift galaxies and starbursts, the Galactic Centre is the most extreme environment that we can observe in detail. It is also the only nucleus of a galaxy that we can observe with a resolution of just a few milli parsecs. This makes it a crucial target to understand the physics of galactic nuclei and star formation, as well as the connection between them. It enables studies of a large number of otherwise rare objects, such as extremely massive stars and stellar remnants, at a well-defined distance, thus facilitating the interpretation of their properties. The Galactic Centre has been and is being studied intensively with the most advanced facilities. In this White Paper, we advocate for a large-area, multi-wavelength survey with the Square Kilometre Array of an area of about 1.25x0.3 deg**2 (180x40 pc**2), centered on the massive black hole Sagittarius A* and for repeated deep observations of the nuclear star cluster over a decade, which will allow the community to address multiple science problems with a single data set. |
| title | The SKA Galactic Centre Survey -- A White Paper |
| topic | Astrophysics of Galaxies |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.04022 |