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| author | Su, Yang Zhang, Shiyu Sun, Yan Yang, Ji Du, Fujun Fang, Min Yan, Qing-Zeng Zhang, Shaobo Chen, Zhiwei Chen, Xuepeng Zhou, Xin Yuan, Lixia Ma, Yuehui |
| author_facet | Su, Yang Zhang, Shiyu Sun, Yan Yang, Ji Du, Fujun Fang, Min Yan, Qing-Zeng Zhang, Shaobo Chen, Zhiwei Chen, Xuepeng Zhou, Xin Yuan, Lixia Ma, Yuehui |
| contents | We uncovered a more tilted molecular gas structure with highly negative velocities located near the dust lane. Our observations also show that the approaching gas flows from the overshoot process are captured by the bar gravitational and then flows towards the Galactic central molecular zone (CMZ) through the bar channel. The recycling gas from the overshoot effect, in conjunction with freshly accreted gas from the inner 3-kpc disk, accumulates significantly near R_GC~1/2R_bar and R_GC~2/3R_bar regions by adopting a bar length of ~3.2--3.4kpc. Importantly, within these regions, there are frequent collisions and substantial angular momentum exchanges between gas flows with different trajectories. In this scenario, the DISSIPATION processes arising from interactions between colliding flows, together with the varying torques induced by the nonaxisymmetric bar, effectively transfer the angular momentum of viscous gas outward, thereby driving the molecular gas to settle into the CMZ within ~3 orbital periods. A long-term gas inflow with an average rate of >1.1Msun/yr, coupled with intense transient accretion events that exceed the average rate by several times due to the overshoot effect, significantly regulates the gas distribution, physical properties, and dynamical evolution of the CMZ. These findings provide robust observational evidence for elucidating the intricate dynamics of molecular gas flows towards the CMZ. Our results show that gas dynamics has a significant impact on the secular evolution of both the Milky Way and the extragalactic gas-rich galaxies. |
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| spellingShingle | Gas Transfer Between the Inner 3-kpc Disk and the Galactic Central Molecular Zone Su, Yang Zhang, Shiyu Sun, Yan Yang, Ji Du, Fujun Fang, Min Yan, Qing-Zeng Zhang, Shaobo Chen, Zhiwei Chen, Xuepeng Zhou, Xin Yuan, Lixia Ma, Yuehui Astrophysics of Galaxies We uncovered a more tilted molecular gas structure with highly negative velocities located near the dust lane. Our observations also show that the approaching gas flows from the overshoot process are captured by the bar gravitational and then flows towards the Galactic central molecular zone (CMZ) through the bar channel. The recycling gas from the overshoot effect, in conjunction with freshly accreted gas from the inner 3-kpc disk, accumulates significantly near R_GC~1/2R_bar and R_GC~2/3R_bar regions by adopting a bar length of ~3.2--3.4kpc. Importantly, within these regions, there are frequent collisions and substantial angular momentum exchanges between gas flows with different trajectories. In this scenario, the DISSIPATION processes arising from interactions between colliding flows, together with the varying torques induced by the nonaxisymmetric bar, effectively transfer the angular momentum of viscous gas outward, thereby driving the molecular gas to settle into the CMZ within ~3 orbital periods. A long-term gas inflow with an average rate of >1.1Msun/yr, coupled with intense transient accretion events that exceed the average rate by several times due to the overshoot effect, significantly regulates the gas distribution, physical properties, and dynamical evolution of the CMZ. These findings provide robust observational evidence for elucidating the intricate dynamics of molecular gas flows towards the CMZ. Our results show that gas dynamics has a significant impact on the secular evolution of both the Milky Way and the extragalactic gas-rich galaxies. |
| title | Gas Transfer Between the Inner 3-kpc Disk and the Galactic Central Molecular Zone |
| topic | Astrophysics of Galaxies |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.12313 |