2024.1.15-2024.1.21

January 16 Tue 10:00-11:30 太陽系小天体セミナー
Zoom


January 17 Wed 10:30-12:00 SOKENDAI Colloquium
Large Seminar Room in Subaru Building and Zoom (hybrid)


January 17 Wed 14:30-15:30 ALMA-J seminar
Room 102 in the ALMA Building and Zoom (hybrid)


January 17 Wed 15:30-16:30 NAOJ Science Colloquium
Zoom


January 18 Thu 10:00-12:00 SOKENDAI Doctoral Thesis Dissertation review
Lecture Room and Zoom (hybrid)


January 18 Thu 15:30-17:30 SOKENDAI Doctoral Thesis Dissertation review
Lecture Room and Zoom (hybrid)


January 19 Fri 10:30-12:00 Solar and Space Plasma Seminar
Central Building (North) / 310 and Zoom (hybrid)


詳細は下記からご覧ください。

=============== January 16 Tue ===============

キャンパス:三鷹
セミナー名:太陽系小天体セミナー
定例・臨時の別:定例
日時:1月16日(火曜日)10時00分~11時30分
場所:zoom
講演者:宇田豊和
所属:Aiharasoft
タイトル:ハワイ・マウナケア星空ライブからの流星自動検出システム概要
Abstract:ハワイ・マウナケア星空ライブからの流れ星自動検出システムを構築しました。
2022年1月より、大きな流れ星を検出すると、Xでポストする運用を行っています。
今回の発表では、このシステムの概要、流れ星の検出アルゴリズム概要、
ふたご座流星群などの検出状況、現状の問題点、課題についてご説明します。

世話人の連絡先
 名前:渡部潤一
 
備考:テレビ会議またはスカイプによる参加も可

=============== January 17 Wed ===============

Campus:Mitaka
Seminar:SOKENDAI Colloquium
Regularly Scheduled/Sporadic:Regular
Date and time:January 17, 2024 10:30-12:00
Place:Large Seminar Room in Subaru Building and Zoom

Speaker: Kazuki Watanabe
Affiliation: SOKENDAI 1st year (M1) (Supervisor: Yoshinori Uzawa, Takafumi Kojima, Tai Oshima)
Title: Development of a sub-THz MKID Camera for Deep Space Observation

Speaker: Miho Tan
Affiliation: SOKENDAI 1st year (M1) (Supervisor: Mami Machida, Tomoya Takiwaki, Kazunari Iwasaki)
Title: Effect of an optical star wind on SS433’s jet propagation

Facilitator
-Name:Matsuda, Graduate Student Affairs Unit

=============== January 17 Wed===============

Campus: Mitaka
Seminar: ALMA-J seminar
Date and time: January 17 (Wed) 14:30-15:30
Place: hybrid (Room 102 in the ALMA building and Zoom)

1st speaker: Yuzuki Nagashima
Affiliation: Fukushima university / NAOJ
Title: High-precision SFR mapping of the nearby galaxy NGC 1068 using ALMA 100 GHz continuum and HST Paα line and the effect of DIG contamination.

Abstract:
The star formation rate (SFR) is an important indicator in the context of galaxy evolution. However, it is not easy to accurately measure the SFR in external galaxies. For example, the most common method is to use radiation from the HII region, but the to assume temperature of the HII region and the contribution of other radiation sources make it difficult to accurately estimate the SFR. Furthermore, in the infrared and optical wavelength bands, the effect of dust extinction is significant and needs to be corrected. Therefore, it is important to observe in the millimeter and sub-millimeter wavelength bands with ALMA, which are not affected to dust extinction, especially, which has high sensitivity and high resolution. In recent years, with the improvement of data accuracy, a method to isolate, identify, and extract whether the source of ionized gas is from star formation or not is being established. By identifying and subtracting stronger ionization sources (e.g., AGN origin) and weaker (Diffuse Ionized Gas; DIG origin) than star formation sources, SFRs that are less contradiction with SFRs derived from multiple tracers have been reported (e.g., Michiyama et al. 2020). Michiyama et al. 2020).
We produced a precise SFR map for the nearby galaxy NGC 1068 by comparing the two different ionized gas tracers, free-free emission and hydrogen recombination line the Paα, and by considering the effect of DIG.
In this talk, I will introduce how to make an accurate SFR map and the result.
In addition, I will focus on the DIG correction.

2nd speaker: Mahoshi Sawamura
Affiliation: University of Tokyo / NAOJ
Title: No galaxy-scale [CII] outflow detected in a z=6.72 red quasar with ALMA

Abstruct:
It has been claimed that active galactic nucleus (AGN)-driven massive outflows, which would happen during a transition phase from an obscured dusty quasar to a normal blue quasar, are the key physical process in driving the co-evolution of galaxies and supermassive black holes (SMBHs). Partially dust-obscured red quasars are thought to be the immediate phase of this transition. However, while many blue quasars at z = 6~7 have been found in recent years, it is still hard to identify red quasars at that epoch due to their apparent faintness. Deep, wide-area surveys and subsequent multi-wavelength follow-up observations are thus required to identify such red objects and test the above evolutionary scenario. Here we report our ALMA cycle 7 observations of the z = 6.72 red quasar HSC 120505.09−000027.9 (J1205−0000). This is one of the highest redshift (z > 6) red quasars originally identified by our deep Subaru Hyper Suprime-Cam (HSC) survey. It is apparently faint, but is intrinsically as luminous as −24.4 mag at rest-UV and hosts a massive BH of 2.2 × 10^9 Msun. It is also known to be N V and C IV BAL object, indicating the existence of nuclear outflows. We successfully detected both the [CII] 158 μm line and the underlying rest-FIR continuum emission (resolution ~0.6″, 1σ ~ 0.1 mJy/beam at dV = 75 km/s). The continuum is very bright, with the estimated luminosity of 2.3 × 10^12 Lsun (or equivalently SFR ~ 485 Msun/yr), which indicates that the host galaxy of this red quasar is indeed a starburst system. However, the detailed analysis of the visibility data suggests that the bulk of this IR emission originates from a spatially unresolved compact component, likely the AGN itself. Hence the actual SFR could be much smaller. Regarding the AGN feedback, our observations do not conclusively assert the presence of [CⅡ] outflows. One possible interpretation of this is that the spatial scale of the outflow is not large enough to reach the host galaxy. However, we propose that this red quasar is indeed in a key evolutionary phase of AGN feedback. We will also discuss possible future observations to explore the existence of this wing component.

=============== January 17 Wed==============

Campus: Mitaka
Seminar: NAOJ Science Colloquium
Date and time: 2023 Jan. 17 (Wed.), 15:30-16:30
Place: Zoom

Speaker: Bruce Gendre
Affiliation: Australian National University
Title: Progenitors of ultra-long gamma-ray bursts: an ultra-long and ultra-slow developing story
Abstract:
Gamma-ray bursts are fantastic explosions seen at cosmological distances, and one of the most extreme high energy events of the Universe. Because of their distance, understanding the phenomenon at play is challenging. In this seminar, I will review the GRB phenomenon, what we already know about the progenitor of those events, focusing on the most unknown kind of event, the ultra-long ones, and how we use the current technology for improving our knowledge.

Facilitator
-Name: Maria Giovanna Dainotti
Comment: English

=============== January 18 Thu==============

Campus:Mitaka
Seminar:SOKENDAI Doctoral Thesis Dissertation review
     総研大博士学位論文予備審査会
Regularly Scheduled/Sporadic:Sporadic
Date and time:January 18, 2024 10:00-12:00
Place :Lecture Room and Zoom

Speaker:Raiga Kashiwagi
Title:Instability and Evolution of Shocked Clouds Formed by Collisions between Filamentary Molecular Clouds

Facilitator
-Name:Nozomu Tominaga, Hideyuki Kobayashi, Kaya Kitabayashi (Graduate Student Affairs Unit)

Comment:
https://guas-astronomy.jp/CampusLife/doctor_report.html

=============== January 18 Thu==============

Campus:Mitaka
Seminar:SOKENDAI Doctoral Thesis Dissertation review
     総研大博士学位論文予備審査会
Regularly Scheduled/Sporadic:Sporadic
Date and time:January 18, 2024 15:30-17:30
Place :Lecture Room and Zoom

Speaker:Rikuto Omae
Title:Probing the Magnetic Fields of Distant Galaxies to Unravel the Evolution of Galactic Magnetic Fields

Facilitator
-Name:Nozomu Tominaga, Hideyuki Kobayashi, Kaya Kitabayashi (Graduate Student Affairs Unit)

Comment:
https://guas-astronomy.jp/CampusLife/doctor_report.html

=============== January 19 Fri==============

Campus: Mitaka
Seminar: Solar and Space Plasma Seminar
Regularly Scheduled/Sporadic: Sporadic
Date and time:19th January (Fri), 10:30-12:00
Place: hybrid; Central Building (North) / 310 and Zoom

Speaker:Dr. Ryoko Ishikawa
Affiliation:NAOJ
Title:3D mapping of the magnetic field in the whole atmosphere of an active region plage with the CLASP2.1 sounding rocket experiment
Abstract:Probing the magnetic field throughout the solar atmosphere is critically important for understanding the energy transfer from the photosphere to the corona. However, there is an overwhelming lack of empirical information on the magnetic field in the upper chromosphere and the layers above, where the magnetic pressure dominates the gas pressure (β < 1). To this end, a novel approach is to measure and model the polarization of magnetically-sensitive ultraviolet (UV) spectral lines. The series of sounding rocket experiments CLASP (2015), CLASP2 (2019) and CLASP2.1 (2021) have demonstrated that UV spectro-polarimetry is indeed a suitable diagnostic tool for investigating the magnetic fields in the whole solar chromosphere. On October 8, 2021, CLASP2.1 measured the Stokes profiles of the 280 nm spectral region at 16 consecutive slit positions covering a two-dimensional field of view in an active region plage. This near-UV spectral region contains the resonance lines of Mn I (which provide information on the lower chromosphere) and the Mg II h & k lines (which provide information on the middle and upper chromosphere). Combined with coordinated observations with the Solar Optical Telescope (SOT) aboard the Hinode satellite, we obtained a line-of-sight magnetogram covering a sunspot penumbra and a plage (moss) region at multiple heights from the photosphere to the top chromosphere. The 3D mapping enables how the magnetic patches expand with height and how much magnetic flux reaches higher in the chromosphere. The obtained magnetogram is compared with the high-resolution images recorded by IRIS and SDO/AIA, revealing the connectivity between the magnetic structure in the chromosphere and the coronal loops.

Facilitator
-Name:Akiko Tei

Comment:English

2024.1.8-2024.1.14

January 9 Tue 14:00-15:00 NAOJ Seminar
Face to face/ hybrid; Large Seminar Room in Subaru Building

If this NAOJ seminar is held also by hybrid form,
we will announce the Zoom URL with another email.


January 10 Wed 10:30-12:00 SOKENDAI Colloquium
Large Seminar Room in Subaru Building and Zoom (hybrid)


January 10 Wed 15:30-16:30 NAOJ Science Colloquium
Large Seminar Room in Subaru Building and Zoom (hybrid)


詳細は下記からご覧ください。

=============== January 9 Tue ===============

Campus:Mitaka
Seminar:NAOJ Seminar
Regularly Scheduled/Sporadic:Sporadic
Date and time:January 9, 2024 14:00-15:00
Place:Large Seminar Room
*If this NAOJ seminar is held also by hybrid form, we will announce the Zoom URL with another email.

Speaker:Prof. Fabio Favata
Affiliation:Italian National Astronomy Institute (INAF) & Thalatta Consulting Ltd.
Title:Space astronomy, past and future: a personal (Western) perspective

Abstract:
Space astronomy is a fairly recent discipline, with the first successful space telescope (OAO-2, a 30 cm UV telescope) launched by NASA in 1968. While the first space telescopes were hardly larger than today’s amateur instruments, we have gone a long way to reach the Webb observatory, the largest space telescope ever launched. We have surely lived, in the past few decades, through a “golden age” of space astronomy, that has enabled discoveries that have changed our understanding of physics and of the Universe (e.g., the existence of dark energy, or the accurate cosmological models enabled by the CMB maps).

This unprecedented success story has been made possible by a number of circumstances which may not extend into the future, at least in the US and in Europe. While many astronomers take further significant progress in the development of space facilities for granted, in fact reality is likely to be more complex. The development of new large facilities by both NASA and ESA has met a number of challenges, both politically and technically. In addition, the time elapsed from the initial scientific idea to its fruition through the results of an actual space mission has become rather long. It is not obvious that the same approach and vision that has served space astronomy so well in the past will be successful in the future, and the golden age risks to be followed by an era in which the pace of progress slows significantly.

In my talk I discuss how and why have we come to this point, what are the risks for the future, in particular for the younger generation of scientists, and I will discuss new opportunities and possible solutions. Key elements include the importance of a diverse ecosystem of scientific ideas and facilities, of the new space ecosystem, as well as the growing, critical role in this field played by space actors in Asia.

Facilitator
-Name: Hori Yasunori

=============== January 10 wed===============

Campus:Mitaka
Seminar:SOKENDAI Colloquium
Regularly Scheduled/Sporadic:Regular
Date and time:January 10, 2024 10:30-12:00
Place:Large Seminar Room in Subaru Building and Zoom

Speaker: Kiyoaki Doi
Affiliation: SOKENDAI 4th year (D2) (Supervisor: Akimasa Kataoka, Hideko Nomura, Misato Fukagawa)
Title: Multi-wavelength ALMA observations of the PDS 70 disk with planets

Speaker: Suzuka Nakano
Affiliation: SOKENDAI 55h year (D3) (Supervisor: Koichiro Nakanishi, Takashi Sekii, Takuma Izumi)
Title: TBA

Facilitator
-Name:Matsuda, Graduate Student Affairs Unit

=============== January 10 wed==============

Campus: Mitaka
Seminar: NAOJ Science Colloquium
Date and time: 2023 Jan. 10 (Wed.), 15:30-16:30
Place: the large seminar room / Zoom (hybrid)

Speaker: Go Murakami
Affiliation: JAXA
Title: Ultraviolet Spectroscopy and Imaging in Solar System Science and Beyond
Abstract:
Ultraviolet spectroscopy technique is one of the most powerful tools for solar-terrestrial plasma physics, planetary science, and astronomy.
For example, JAXA’s UV space telescope Hisaki performed long-term and continuous monitoring of Io plasma torus and revealed dynamic relations between Io’s volcanic activity and Jupiter’s magnetosphere. We also developed a UV spectrograph for planetary exploration probes such as BepiColombo, ESA-JAXA joint Mercury exploration mission. Now we are studying a concept and preliminary design of future UV spectroscopy mission LAPYUTA. Here I present overviews of our past UV observation heritages such as Kaguya, BepiColombo, and Hisaki, brief instrumentations, current developments, and future plans.

Facilitator
-Name: Yuka Fujii
Comment: English

2023.12.25-2024.1.7

December 26 Tue 16:00-17:00 NAOJ Seminar
Large Seminar Room in Subaru Building and Zoom(hybrid)


December 27 Wed 10:30-12:00 SOKENDAI Colloquium
Large Seminar Room in Subaru Building and Zoom (hybrid)


詳細は下記からご覧ください。

=============== December 26 Tue ===============

Campus:Mitaka
Seminar:NAOJ Seminar
Regularly Scheduled/Sporadic:Sporadic
Date and time:December 26, 2023 16:00-17:00
Place:Zoom/Large Seminar Room (hybrid)

Speaker:Prof. Daniel Jontof-Hutter
Affiliation:University of the Pacific
Title:Three-body resonances in Multitransiting Exoplanetary Systems
Abstract:Planet formation models with convergent migration show that planet pairs are easily trapped in mean motion resonances. Yet in Kepler’s multi-planet systems, orbital period ratios near resonance are rare.
Furthermore, those pairs with commensurate orbital period ratios, the measurement uncertainties of orbital eccentricities make it difficult to show that any planet pair is in libration.
Three-body resonances, however, may be easier to identify. Several systems have been shown to be in 3-body libration. Using transit timing data, we explore dynamical simulations of Kepler systems that are potentially in three-body resonances.
We further search for three-body resonances among all triples within the Kepler dataset, in search of additional systems in libration. Finally, we estimate the fraction of planetary systems with three-body resonant chains.

Facilitator
-Name:Shinobu Ozaki

=============== December 27 wed===============

Campus:Mitaka
Seminar:SOKENDAI Colloquium
Regularly Scheduled/Sporadic:Regular
Date and time:December 27, 2023 10:30-12:00
Place:Large Seminar Room in Subaru Building and Zoom

Speaker: Ryota Ikeda
Affiliation: SOKENDAI 3rd year (D1) (Supervisor: Daisuke Iono, Masayuki Tanaka, Takuma Izumi)
Title: Study of spatial extent and haloes of [CII] line emission in star-forming galaxies at z=4-6

Speaker: Itsuki Ogami
Affiliation: SOKENDAI 4th year (D2) (Supervisor: Wako Aoki, Hisanori Furusawa, Miho N. Ishigaki)
Title: Probing the stellar halo in M33 using Subaru/HSC

Facilitator
-Name:Matsuda, Graduate Student Affairs Unit

2023.12.18-2023.12.24

Dec 19 Tue 10:30-12:00 Solar and Space Plasma Seminar
Central Building (North) / 310, Subaru Building / Insei Seminar Room and Zoom(hybrid)


December 20 Wed 10:30-12:00 SOKENDAI Colloquium
Large Seminar Room in Subaru Building and Zoom (hybrid)


December 20 Wed 15:30-16:30 NAOJ Science Colloquium
the 3F seminar room in Instrument Development Building No.3 and Zoom (hybrid)

詳細は下記からご覧ください。

=============== December 19 Tue ===============

Campus: Mitaka
Seminar: Solar and Space Plasma Seminar
Regularly Scheduled/Sporadic: Scheduled
Date and time:19th December (Tue), 10:30-12:00
Place: hybrid; Central Building (North) / 310, Subaru Building / Insei Seminar Room, or Zoom
Speaker:Takato Tokuno
Affiliation:University of Tokyo (D1 student)
Title:Spin evolution of the Sun and low-mass stars
Abstract:The spin rate of a low-mass star, including the Sun, is crucial
because it interacts with magnetism through the dynamo effect. Since
magnetised stellar wind transports the angular momentum from a star
(‘magnetic braking’), the star basically spins down. The spin-down of
solar-type stars has been studied by comparison between theoretical
modelling and observed stellar properties. Although the previous model
can explain observed basic trends, there remain unsolved problems. In
this seminar, I will review the current study of stellar spin-down,
including my paper.

Facilitator
-Name:Akiko Tei

Comment:in English

=============== December 20 wed===============

Campus:Mitaka
Seminar:SOKENDAI Colloquium
Regularly Scheduled/Sporadic:Regular
Date and time:December 20, 2023 10:30-12:00
Place:Large Seminar Room in Subaru Building and Zoom

Speaker: Kousuke Ishihara
Affiliation: SOKENDAI 4th year (D2) (Supervisor: Fumitaka Nakamura, Masao Saito, Patricio Sanhueza)
Title: Observational study of the fragmentation process in nearby star-forming regions

Speaker: Yui Kasagi
Affiliation: SOKENDAI 55h year (D3) (Supervisor: Takayuki Kotani, Saeko Hayashi, Wako Aoki)
Title: Unveiling atmospheric features of an L dwarf observed with REACH/Subaru

Facilitator
-Name:Matsuda, Graduate Student Affairs Unit

=============== December 20 wed==============

Campus: Mitaka
Seminar: NAOJ Science Colloquium
Date and time: 2023 Dec. 20 (Wed.), 15:30-16:30
Place: the 3F seminar room in Instrument Development Building No.3 / Zoom (hybrid)

Speaker: GUIMARÃES Gabriel
Affiliation: The University of Tokyo
Title: Chaotic Diffusion: Importance, approaches and consequences
Abstract:
Regular motion in the dynamical systems might now be regarded as the odd phenomena instead of chaotic ones. That is because chaotic motion seems to take place more widely and commonly than periodic ones, and in Celestial Mechanics it could be no different.
Still, it is not uncommon to characterise orbits of asteroids and comets that are clearly stable as chaotic ones and vice versa. That is because of Chaotic Diffusion, which is responsible to drive dynamical systems from a regular state to a chaotic one.
Nonetheless, the onset of chaos — as well as the effective “chaoticity” of an orbit — might not be immediate nor evident, pronouncing themselves in distinct timescales, sometimes larger than the system’s own lifetime.
Such cases, those of “stable” or “weak” chaos, chaotic diffusion is thought to play a significant role in shaping and sculpting our Solar system and other extrasolar counterparts orbital architecture.
In this presentation, I will explain a bit about chaos, contextualize it within the realms of celestial mechanics and planet formation, present tools for quantification of chaotic diffusion and how to use them to estimate instability times that are comparable to observed/simulated ones without the need to intensive and extensively making use of computational resources nor sophisticated mathematical models.

Speaker: Tomohiro Yoshida
Affiliation: NAOJ (D1)
Title: The First Spatially-resolved Detection of 13CN in a Protoplanetary Disk and Evidence for Complex Carbon Isotope Fractionation
Abstract:
Recent measurements of carbon isotope ratios in both protoplanetary disks and exoplanet atmospheres have suggested a possible transfer of significant carbon isotope fractionation from disks to planets. For a clearer understanding of the isotopic link between disks and planets, it is important to measure the carbon isotope ratios in various species. In this talk, we present a detection of the 13CN N = 2−1 hyperfine lines in the TW Hya disk with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array.
This is the first spatially-resolved detection of 13CN in disks, which enables us to measure the spatially resolved 12CN/13CN ratio for the first time. We conducted non-local thermal equilibrium modeling of the 13CN lines in conjunction with previously observed 12CN lines to derive the kinetic temperature, H2 volume density, and column densities of 12CN and 13CN. The H2 volume density is found to range between (4 − 10) ×
10^7 cm−3, suggesting that CN molecules mainly reside in the disk atmosphere. The 12CN/13CN ratio is measured to be ~70 at 30 < r < 80 au from the central star, which is similar to the 12C/13C ratio in the interstellar medium. However, this value differs from the previously reported values found for other carbon-bearing molecules (CO and HCN) in the TW Hya disk. This could be self-consistently explained by different emission layer heights for different molecules combined with preferential sequestration of 12C into the solid phase towards the disk midplane. This study reveals the complexity of the carbon isotope fractionation operating in disks.

Facilitator
-Name: Kanji Mori

Comment: English

2023.12.11-2023.12.17

December 12 Tue 10:00-11:30 太陽系小天体セミナー
Zoom


December  13 Wed 10:30-12:00 SOKENDAI Colloquium
Large Seminar Room in Subaru Building and Zoom (hybrid)


December  13 Wed 15:30-16:30 NAOJ Science Colloquium
Large Seminar Room in Subaru Building and Zoom (hybrid)

詳細は下記からご覧ください。

=============== December  12 Tue ===============

キャンパス:三鷹
セミナー名:太陽系小天体セミナー
定例・臨時の別:定例
日時:12月12日(火曜日)10時00分~11時30分
場所:zoom
講演者:古荘玲子

世話人の連絡先
 名前:渡部潤一
 
備考:テレビ会議またはスカイプによる参加も可

=============== December  13 wed===============

Campus:Mitaka
Seminar:SOKENDAI Colloquium
Regularly Scheduled/Sporadic:Regular
Date and time:December 13, 2023 10:30-12:00
Place:Large Seminar Room in Subaru Building and Zoom

Speaker: Shun Hatano
Affiliation: SOKENDAI 2nd year (M2) (Supervisor: Masami Ouchi, Yusei Koyama, Takashi Moriya)
Title: Supermassive black holes at high redshifts explored with James Webb Space Telescope

Speaker: Shun Ishigami
Affiliation: SOKENDAI 3rd year (D1) (Supervisor: Hirohisa Hara, Yukio Katsukawa, Masahito Kubo)
Title: Estimating the filling factor of coronal loops using EUV spectroscopic data

Facilitator
-Name:Matsuda, Graduate Student Affairs Unit

=============== December  13 wed==============

Campus: Mitaka
Seminar: NAOJ Science Colloquium
Date and time: 2023 Dec. 13 (Wed.), 15:30-16:30
Place: the large seminar room / Zoom (hybrid)

Speaker: Kensuke Kakiuchi
Affiliation: The University of Tokyo
Title: MHD Simulation of The Inner Galaxy with Radiative Cooling and Heating
Abstract:
Magnetic field is supposed to play a key role in the interstellar gas of the Galactic Center region (inner Galactic Bulge region).
Observations show that the strength of the magnetic field within the central few hundred parsecs of the Galaxy is stronger than in the Galactic disk region, and its magnetic energy is comparable poor even surpasses the thermal and kinetic energy of the interstellar gas.
Therefore, it is essential to study the role of the magnetic field to understand the behavior of the interstellar gas in the Galactic center region.
In this talk, we will present the results of 3D global magnetohydrodynamical simulations in the Galactic center region. A notable distinction from previous simulations is the inclusion of radiative cooling and heating effects. We found the formation of a mid-latitude low-plasma beta zone (dominated by magnetic field pressure), which would not have appeared in the model without radiative heating and cooling. While the thermal energy of the interstellar gas is lost because of radiative heating and cooling effects, the magnetic energy is independent of this direct effect and can contribute to the thickness that supports the interstellar gas clouds above the Galactic plane.In fact, it is difficult to explain the thickness of gas clouds in the Galactic center using only gas pressure scale heights, suggesting that the contribution of the magnetic field is important as an interpretation of this thickness.

Facilitator
-Name: Doris Arzoumanian

Comment: English