1. 2 mm GISMO Observations of the Galactic Center. I. Dust Emission
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Arendt, Richard G, Staguhn, Johannes G, Dwek, Eliahu, Mark R. Morris, Farhad Yusef-Zadeh, Benford, Dominic J, Kovacs, Attila, and Gonzalez-Quiles, Junellie
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Astronomy - Abstract
The central molecular zone, covering the inner 1° of the Galactic plane has been mapped at 2mm using the Goddard-IRAM Superconducting 2-Millimeter Observer (GISMO) bolometric camera on the 30 m IRAM telescope. The 21 resolution maps show abundant emission from cold molecular clouds, from star-forming regions, and from one of the Galactic center nonthermal filaments. In this work we use the Herschel Hi-GAL data to model the dust emission across the Galactic center. We find that a single-temperature fit can describe the 160-500 um emission for most lines of sight, if the long-wavelength dust emissivity scales as with 2.25. This dust model is extrapolated to predict the 2 mm dust emission. Subtraction of the model from the GISMO data provides a clearer look at the 2 mm emission of star-forming regions and the brightest nonthermal filament.
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- 2019
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