Eden, DJ, Moore, TJT, Currie, MJ, Rigby, AJ, Rosolowsky, E, Su, Y, Kim, K-T, Parsons, H, Morata, O, Chen, H-R, Minamidani, T, Park, G, Ragan, SE, Urquhart, JS, Rani, R, Tahani, K, Billington, SJ, Deb, S, Figura, C, Fujiyoshi, T et al, Joncas, G, Liao, LW, Liu, T, Ma, H, Tuan-Anh, P, Yun, H-S, Zhang, S, Zhu, M, Henshaw, JD, Longmore, SN, Kobayashi, MIN, Thompson, MA, Ao, Y, Campbell-White, J, Ching, T-C, Chung, EJ, Duarte-Cabral, A, Fich, M, Gao, Y, Graves, SF, Jiang, X-J, Kemper, F, Kuan, Y-J, Kwon, W, Lee, CW, Lee, J-E, Liu, M, Penaloza, CH, Peretto, N, Phuong, NT, Pineda, JE, Plume, R, Puspitaningrum, E, Samal, MR, Soam, A, Sun, Y, Tang, XD, Traficante, A, White, GJ, Yan, C-H, Yang, A, Yuan, J, Yue, N, Bemis, A, Brunt, CM, Chen, Z, Cho, J, Clark, PC, Cyganowski, CJ, Friberg, P, Fuller, GA, Han, I, Hoare, MG, Izumi, N, Kim, H-J, Kim, J, Kim, S, Koch, EW, Kuno, N, Lacialle, KM, Lai, S-P, Lee, HLY-H, Li, DL, Liu, S-Y, Mairs, S, Oka, T, Pan, Z, Qian, L, Scicluna, P, Shi, C-S, Shi, H, Srinivasan, S, Tan, Q-H, Thomas, HS, Torii, K, Trejo, A, Umemoto, T, Violino, G, Wallstrom, S, Wang, B, Wu, Y, Yuan, L, Zhang, C, Zhang, M, Zhou, C and Zhou, JJ (2020) CHIMPS2: Survey description and $^{12}$CO emission in the Galactic Centre. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 498 (4). pp. 5936-5951. ISSN 0035-8711

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Abstract

The latest generation of Galactic-plane surveys is enhancing our ability to study the effects of galactic environment upon the process of star formation. We present the first data from CO Heterodyne Inner Milky Way Plane Survey 2 (CHIMPS2). CHIMPS2 is a survey that will observe the Inner Galaxy, the Central Molecular Zone (CMZ), and a section of the Outer Galaxy in $^{12}$CO, $^{13}$CO, and C$^{18}$O $(J = 3\rightarrow2)$ emission with the Heterodyne Array Receiver Program on the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope (JCMT). The first CHIMPS2 data presented here are a first look towards the CMZ in $^{12}$CO J = 3$\rightarrow$2 and cover $-3^{\circ}\leq\,\ell\,\leq\,5^{\circ}$ and $\mid$b$\mid \leq 0.5^{\circ}$ with angular resolution of 15 arcsec, velocity resolution of 1 km s$^{-1}$, and rms $\Delta T_A ^\ast =$ 0.58 K at these resolutions. Such high-resolution observations of the CMZ will be a valuable data set for future studies, whilst complementing the existing Galactic Plane surveys, such as SEDIGISM, the Herschel infrared Galactic Plane Survey, and ATLASGAL. In this paper, we discuss the survey plan, the current observations and data, as well as presenting position-position maps of the region. The position-velocity maps detect foreground spiral arms in both absorption and emission.

Item Type:	Article
Additional Information:	This article has been accepted for publication in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society ©: 2020 The Authors Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Royal Astronomical Society. All rights reserved.
Uncontrolled Keywords:	0201 Astronomical and Space Sciences
Subjects:	Q Science > QB Astronomy Q Science > QC Physics
Divisions:	Astrophysics Research Institute
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Related URLs:	http://arxiv.org/abs/2009.05073v1
Date Deposited:	28 Sep 2020 10:11
Last Modified:	04 Sep 2021 06:37
DOI or ID number:	10.1093/mnras/staa2734
URI:	https://researchonline.ljmu.ac.uk/id/eprint/13731

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