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author Sofue, Yoshiaki
Oka, Tomoharu
Longmore, Steven N.
Walker, Daniel
Ginsburg, Adam
Henshaw, Jonathan D.
Bally, John
Barnes, Ashley T.
Battersby, Cara
Colzi, Laura
Ho, Paul
Jimenez-Serra, Izaskun
Kruijssen, J. M. Diederik
Mills, Elizabeth
Petkova, Maya A.
Sormani, Mattia C.
Wallace, Jennifer
Armijos-Abendaño, Jairo
Dutkowska, Katarzyna M.
Enokiya, Rei
García, Pablo
Gramze, Savannah
Henkel, Christian
Hsieh, Pei-Ying
Hu, Yue
Immer, Katharina
Iwata, Yuhei
Karoly, Janik
Klessen, Ralf S.
Kohno, Kotaro
Krumholz, Mark R.
Lipman, Dani
Morris, Mark R.
Nogueras-Lara, Francisco
Pineda, Jaime E.
Martín, Sergio
Requenatorres, Miguel Angel
Rivilla, Víctor M.
Riquelme-Vásquez, Denise
Sánchez-Monge, Álvaro
Santa-Maria, Miriam G.
Smith, Howard A.
Tolls, Volker
Wang, Q. Daniel
author_facet Sofue, Yoshiaki
Oka, Tomoharu
Longmore, Steven N.
Walker, Daniel
Ginsburg, Adam
Henshaw, Jonathan D.
Bally, John
Barnes, Ashley T.
Battersby, Cara
Colzi, Laura
Ho, Paul
Jimenez-Serra, Izaskun
Kruijssen, J. M. Diederik
Mills, Elizabeth
Petkova, Maya A.
Sormani, Mattia C.
Wallace, Jennifer
Armijos-Abendaño, Jairo
Dutkowska, Katarzyna M.
Enokiya, Rei
García, Pablo
Gramze, Savannah
Henkel, Christian
Hsieh, Pei-Ying
Hu, Yue
Immer, Katharina
Iwata, Yuhei
Karoly, Janik
Klessen, Ralf S.
Kohno, Kotaro
Krumholz, Mark R.
Lipman, Dani
Morris, Mark R.
Nogueras-Lara, Francisco
Pineda, Jaime E.
Martín, Sergio
Requenatorres, Miguel Angel
Rivilla, Víctor M.
Riquelme-Vásquez, Denise
Sánchez-Monge, Álvaro
Santa-Maria, Miriam G.
Smith, Howard A.
Tolls, Volker
Wang, Q. Daniel
contents We analyze the CS (J=2-1) line cube from the internal data release obtained by the large-scale program "ALMA CMZ Exploration Survey (ACES)" to investigate the kinematic structure of the innermost $\sim 10$ pc region of the Galaxy, which contains the high-velocity compact cloud (HVCC) at $(l,b,v_{\rm lsr})\sim(+0^\circ.02,-0^\circ.02, 100 {\rm km~s}^{-1})$ (hereafter G0.02). The longitude-velocity diagram (LVD) of the cloud draws an elliptical structure, which is interpreted as an orbital trajectory in the $(l,V_{\rm lsr})$ space of a noncircular (eccentric) motion of the molecular gas in the gravitational potential of an extended mass distribution in the central 10 pc of the Galaxy. We argue that G0.02 is a kinematic tracer of the inner potential, a rare case of a dense gas following an eccentric orbit in the nuclear gravitational field.
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spellingShingle Circum-nuclear eccentric gas flow in the Galactic Center revealed by ALMA CMZ Exploration Survey (ACES)
Sofue, Yoshiaki
Oka, Tomoharu
Longmore, Steven N.
Walker, Daniel
Ginsburg, Adam
Henshaw, Jonathan D.
Bally, John
Barnes, Ashley T.
Battersby, Cara
Colzi, Laura
Ho, Paul
Jimenez-Serra, Izaskun
Kruijssen, J. M. Diederik
Mills, Elizabeth
Petkova, Maya A.
Sormani, Mattia C.
Wallace, Jennifer
Armijos-Abendaño, Jairo
Dutkowska, Katarzyna M.
Enokiya, Rei
García, Pablo
Gramze, Savannah
Henkel, Christian
Hsieh, Pei-Ying
Hu, Yue
Immer, Katharina
Iwata, Yuhei
Karoly, Janik
Klessen, Ralf S.
Kohno, Kotaro
Krumholz, Mark R.
Lipman, Dani
Morris, Mark R.
Nogueras-Lara, Francisco
Pineda, Jaime E.
Martín, Sergio
Requenatorres, Miguel Angel
Rivilla, Víctor M.
Riquelme-Vásquez, Denise
Sánchez-Monge, Álvaro
Santa-Maria, Miriam G.
Smith, Howard A.
Tolls, Volker
Wang, Q. Daniel
Astrophysics of Galaxies
We analyze the CS (J=2-1) line cube from the internal data release obtained by the large-scale program "ALMA CMZ Exploration Survey (ACES)" to investigate the kinematic structure of the innermost $\sim 10$ pc region of the Galaxy, which contains the high-velocity compact cloud (HVCC) at $(l,b,v_{\rm lsr})\sim(+0^\circ.02,-0^\circ.02, 100 {\rm km~s}^{-1})$ (hereafter G0.02). The longitude-velocity diagram (LVD) of the cloud draws an elliptical structure, which is interpreted as an orbital trajectory in the $(l,V_{\rm lsr})$ space of a noncircular (eccentric) motion of the molecular gas in the gravitational potential of an extended mass distribution in the central 10 pc of the Galaxy. We argue that G0.02 is a kinematic tracer of the inner potential, a rare case of a dense gas following an eccentric orbit in the nuclear gravitational field.
title Circum-nuclear eccentric gas flow in the Galactic Center revealed by ALMA CMZ Exploration Survey (ACES)
topic Astrophysics of Galaxies
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11553