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3D MC. I. X-Ray Tomography Begins to Unravel the 3D Structure of a Molecular Cloud in our Galaxy’s Center

  • Authors: Samantha W. Brunker, Cara Battersby, Danya Alboslani, Maïca Clavel, Daniel L. Walker, Dani Lipman, H Perry Hatchfield, Régis Terrier

Samantha W. Brunker et al 2025 The Astrophysical Journal Letters 982 .

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A comparison between each year of X-ray observations (colored contours) and consecutive H2CO integrated velocity slices (grayscale background) suggests a good match in the overall morphological structures. Each panel shown has the average velocity indicated at the bottom of the image. The contours for each year of X-ray observations were matched with an integrated H2CO image sequentially. By eye, we see relatively good agreement between the X-ray and molecular gas features, especially in the bottom three panels. Unsurprisingly, the sequential comparison between X-ray echoes and velocity slices is not perfect though we do see some strikingly good correlation for the small-scale structure in years 2013, 2015, and 2016 especially.

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