Volume 245, 2023

Tracing the chemical footprint of shocks in AGN-host and starburst galaxies with ALMA multi-line molecular studies

Abstract

Multi-line molecular observations are an ideal tool for a systematic study of the physico-chemical processes in the Interstellar Medium (ISM), given the wide range of critical densities associated with different molecules and their transitions, and the dependencies of chemical reactions on the energy budget of the system. Recently high spatial resolution of typical shock tracers – SiO, HNCO, and CH3OH – have been studied in the potentially shocked regions in two nearby galaxies: NGC 1068 (an AGN-host galaxy) (Huang et al., Astron. Astrophys., 2022, 666, A102; Huang et al., in prep.) and NGC 253 (a starburst galaxy) (K.-Y. Huang et al., arXiv, 2023, preprint, arXiv:2303.12685, DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2303.12685). This paper is dedicated to the comparative study of these two distinctively different galaxies, with the aim of determining the differences in their energetics and understanding large-scale shocks in different types of galaxies.

Graphical abstract: Tracing the chemical footprint of shocks in AGN-host and starburst galaxies with ALMA multi-line molecular studies

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Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
11 1 2023
Accepted
17 3 2023
First published
29 6 2023

Faraday Discuss., 2023,245, 181-198

Tracing the chemical footprint of shocks in AGN-host and starburst galaxies with ALMA multi-line molecular studies

K. Huang and S. Viti, Faraday Discuss., 2023, 245, 181 DOI: 10.1039/D3FD00007A

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