SLIDE 2 I.Mol. Gas in Active Galaxies
✦ compact molecular gas at the active center (R<1kpc)
✦ unified model predicts an obscuring torus [AGN] ✦ many molecular lines (CO,HCN,HCO+,CS...)
have been detected in numbers of galaxies
✦ Three(+) reasons for study molecular ISM
- 1. Formation & Evolution of Galaxies
✦ molecular gas as star formation site
Large scale structure → (???) → present star formation (GMC, mol.core, YSO)
- 2. Chemical & Thermal evolution of Molecular Gas in Extreme
Environments【Astrochemistry viewpoint】
✦ Do mol. gas in active galaxies have peculiar character compared with normal
galaxies?
- 3. As the Energy Budget of Active Galaxies
✦ AGN v.s. starburst ? which dominates the energy source??
~ 1 p c NGC6764 (DSS:V band)
Yoshida et al.(2006) physical conditions of the “compact” gases probed by mm/submm lines
MY, Wada & Tomisaka(2007) MY & Tomisaka, submitted
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