We present Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) sub-kiloparsec- to kiloparsec-scale resolution observations of the [C
We present two decades of new high-angular-resolution near-infrared data from the W. M. Keck Observatory that reveal extreme evolution in X7, an elongated dust and gas feature, presently located half an arcsecond from the Galactic Center supermassive black hole. With both spectro-imaging observations of Br-
- Award ID(s):
- 1909554
- PAR ID:
- 10480783
- Publisher / Repository:
- American Astronomical Society
- Date Published:
- Journal Name:
- The Astrophysical Journal
- Volume:
- 944
- Issue:
- 2
- ISSN:
- 0004-637X
- Page Range / eLocation ID:
- 136
- Format(s):
- Medium: X
- Sponsoring Org:
- National Science Foundation
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