The galactic centre mini-spiral in the mm-regime

Context. The mini-spiral is a feature of the interstellar medium in the central ∼2 pc of the Galactic center. It is composed of several streamers of dust and ionised and atomic gas with temperatures between a few 100 K to 104 K. There is evidence that these streamers are related to the so-called cir...

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Autores: Kunneriath, D., Eckart, A., Vogel, S. N., Teuben, P., Mužić, K., Schödel, Rainer, García-Marín, Macarena, Moultaka, J., Staguhn, J., Straubmeier, C., Zensus, J. A., Valencia-S., M., Karas, Vladimír
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2012
País:España
Institución:Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)
Repositorio:DIGITAL.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSIC
OAI Identifier:oai:digital.csic.es:10261/422818
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/10261/422818
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Accretion, accretion disks
Black hole physics
Galaxy: nucleus
Radio continuum: general
Galaxy: center
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Sumario:Context. The mini-spiral is a feature of the interstellar medium in the central ∼2 pc of the Galactic center. It is composed of several streamers of dust and ionised and atomic gas with temperatures between a few 100 K to 104 K. There is evidence that these streamers are related to the so-called circumnuclear disk of molecular gas and are ionized by photons from massive, hot stars in the central parsec.