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The Circum-nuclear Disk

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 September 2016

R. Genzel*
Affiliation:
Max-Planck-Institut für extraterrestrische Physik D-8046 Garching, F.R. Germany

Abstract

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This review summarizes our current knowledge about the interstellar matter between about 1.7 and 10 pc(a) from IRS16/SGR A∗, a region which now commonly is referred to as the circum-nuclear disk (CND). I will discuss first the spatial distribution of the neutral and partially ionized, interstellar matter, then its physical parameters and excitation and, finally its dynamics. For other recent reviews of the subject I refer to the articles by Güsten (1987), Genzel (1987), Genzel and Townes (1987) and Jaffe (1987).

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Type
Sagittarius A West and the Circumnuclear Disk
Copyright
Copyright © Kluwer 1989