Molceaular Outflow from Centers of galaxies: Resent results

Dr. Kazushi Sakamoto (ASIAA)

*Wednesday*, Jun 18th, 11:00 am

http://www.astro.isas.jaxa.jp/~tsujimot/astro_colloq/

Abstract: 
Molecular outflows from nuclei of active galaxies have been known for three decades. They are most easily seen through off-plane molecular gas above (and below) the nuclei of edge-on disk galaxies. Recently a wide variety of galactic molecular outflows have been revealed through developments of new observing 
facilities and techniques. At the same time, molecular outflows from galaxies are gaining more attention in the context of galaxy evolution as a step to turn gas-rich blue galaxies to gas poor red ones. I am going to present our recent observations of molecular outflows from galaxy nuclei. They add new flavors to the known galactic molecular outflows, such as twin outflows from binary merger nuclei, a nucleus with 
both inflow and outflow, and a highly-collimated bipolar molecular jet that is apparently accelerating along the outflow.