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ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL SUPPLEMENT SERIES
Volume 201, Issue 2, Pages -Publisher
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/0067-0049/201/2/14
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Galaxy: center; galaxies: nuclei; ISM: clouds
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- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [24540236] Funding Source: KAKEN
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We present high-resolution CO J = 3-2 maps of the Galactic center region, taken with the ASTE 10 m telescope. We have collected approximately 30,000 spectra with a 34 '' grid spacing. The mapping area is roughly -1 degrees.8 < l < +3 degrees.5 and -0 degrees.8 < b < +0 degrees.9, which includes the central molecular zone and Bania's Clump 2, covering almost the full extent of the molecular gas concentration in the Galactic center. These CO J = 3-2 images show a behavior similar to the CO J = 1-0 images with the same resolution. Molecular gas in the Galactic center shows a higher J = 3-2/J = 1-0 intensity ratio (similar to 0.7) than the gas in the spiral arms in the Galactic disk (similar to 0.4). The CO J = 3-2/CO J = 1-0 luminosity ratio is 0.71. We see several regions with very high J = 3-2/J = 1-0 intensity ratios exceeding 1.5, including the Sgr A, l = +1 degrees.3, l = -0 degrees.4, and l = -1 degrees.2 regions. A number of small spots of high ratio gas are also found. Many of them have large velocity widths, indicating that they are spots of hot molecular gas shocked by unidentified supernovae and/or winds from massive stars.
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